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Tomorrow's Paper
How often is it that a medium undoes itself, recasting both its intrinsic value and use? We are so often reminded that we now inhabit a post-paper world; as personal notes, letters, and least missed,...
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An Intricate Mess
Liminal Squared is the latest exhibition to fill the walls of White Cube’s Bermondsey gallery, fittingly soloed by explorative artist (environmentally speaking) Julie Mehretu. In her first solo show...
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Mountain Mementos
Sometimes artists that came of age in the 60s prefer to stick to a medium and play with the same format for decades, applying the same formula to different materials. The temptation to break down the...
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Notes on ‘The Encyclopedic Palace’. A Venetian tour through the Biennale
That day, the Yellow Emperor showed the poet his palace. They left behind, in long succession, the first terraces on the west which descend, like the steps of an almost measureless amphitheater, to a...
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From Sixty Inches From Center: Inside Marwen Lab: The Voice and Vision of...
For the past month and a half the MarwenLab students and teaching artists have been kind enough to let me attend their meetings and workshops as Sixty prepared to have our first article created by...
View ArticleThe Standard Book of Color: Puce
Hex: #CC8899HSV: 0.9583, 0.3333, 0.8000A smashed flea filled with your blood stains puce.French for flea, this color was first uttered seeing the bloodsucker’s death streaking white sheets. In the...
View Article[VIDEO] Interview with Raqib Shaw at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Raqib Shaw is a London-based artist who is known for his opulent paintings of imagined paradises. Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague is currently presenting a representative selection of the works of Raqib...
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Putting Paint to the Test
Using scenes from classic cinema as inspiration, Susan Bee’s new body of work puts her medium to the test: with her painterly brushstrokes and jabs competing with the pictorial film stills as the...
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Summer Sojourn: Berlin Gallery Hop
Basel has happened. Venice opening weekend has passed. The European art world is about to fall into the languid slumber of summer. If you are like me, also known as poor, and you didn’t get to attend...
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After Dark
Asa nisa masa, a phrase from Fellini’s 8½, is an incantation recalled from the childhood of the film’s protagonist, Guido. In the film we see a young Guido utter the phrase repeatedly while wildly...
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An Artist’s Responsibility
Chicago is a city of neighborhoods: this is a kind way to put it. In reality, Chicago suffers from deep segregation – limiting the potential of a majority of its citizens. Avenues such as Western are...
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Let no one untrained in geometry enter.
How far do we pursue the artists’ conceptions in their work, following the lead they provide, making an assumption that the work wishes to communicate with its audience? If the work proves too...
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