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ZIMOUN “VOLUME”
Image courtesy bitforms gallery nyc. Photo: © Zimoun Bitforms is featuring the first New York solo show of Zimoun, a Swiss artist whose work explores kinetic and sound generating architectural sculptures inspired...
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TARA DONOVAN: UNTITLED (MYLAR)
A new sprawling single large-scale installation by Tara Donovan. I must admit that I am an admirer of Tara Donovan’s work. It simply is among the best art that I’ve seen in my ten years living in New York so fa...
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CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI – NO MAN’S LAND
I decided it was time for my three-month-old son to experience his first monumental art installation. The occasion was Christian Boltanski’s No Man’s Land, which fills the massive drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory ...
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WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010
The 75th edition of the Whitney Biennial is a peculiar show. It does not seem to represent a comprehensive survey of American art produced in the last two years, but rather a group show of artists reflecting on recess...
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TIM BURTON EXHIBITION
A comprehensive retrospective of Tim Burton’s body of work is being displayed at the Museum Of Modern Art until April 26th. This exhibition comprises two different floors of the museum as well as screenings of his...
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CONFLUX 2009
New York City became a lab for creative expression the weekend of September 17th – 20th. The reason for this experimentation was another edition of the Conflux urban psychogeography festival. Psychogeography, a term c...
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THE HIGH LINE
I still remember the day in 2002, while taking the subway with my friend Brendan Fitzgerald, he showed me one of the photographs he took on the High Line. It was a mesmerizing image of industrialist melancholy: a ...
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NEIL DENARI “BUILDS ON THE HIGH LINE”
The new exhibition that opened in the Museum of the City of New York focuses on the anticipated building project by American architect Neil Denari, the HL23 condominium in Chelsea. Mr. Denari is well known in...
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HOUSTON FENCE
The Houston Fence is a temporary outdoor installation on chain-link fences inspired by QR code barcode patterns. It is located at the intersection of Broadway and Houston in New York City, a crossroads notorious for i...
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WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2008
The Biennial characterizes the state of American art today. Phoebe Washburn, It Makes for My Billionaire Status, 2005 (installation view, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, 2005). The Whitney Biennial is being...
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NEW YORK CITY RE:CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM
Take a walk in downtown Manhattan, and you will quickly see signs of construction everywhere: scaffolds, barriers, cables, and signs make these streets look like an obstacle course. In fact, there are so many of these...
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URBALLOON
Upon entering the Eyebeam in the month of October, the first thing you would notice was that big white ball, floating. Underneath it, the floor was carpeted with a large video projection, and showed this message: Why ...
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ART PARADE 2006
On the lovely, warm Saturday afternoon of September 9th, a legitimat New York freak show known as the Art Parade 2006 took place. Organized by Deitch Projects, Creative Time and Paper Magazine the second annual parade...
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PETER VOGEL
Bitforms gallery just had an excellent show presenting Peter Vogel's first New York solo exhibition in over 20 years. Peter Vogel (b. 1937, Germany) is a pioneer in the field of interactive electronic sculpture. He wa...
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ANTENNA DESIGN “PATTERN RECOGNITION”
Antenna Design is having their second solo exhibition at Frederieke Taylor Gallery. For this show the theme of urbanity is explored through a series of imaginative outdoor and indoor installation ideas. Cleverly desig...
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ANDREA ZITTEL “CRITICAL SPACE”
Last week's opening of Andrea Zittel: Critical Space at the New Museum marked the first comprehensive mid-career retrospective of this influential American artist in her native country. Zittel's work has gained wide a...
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ROBERT SMITHSON “FLOATING ISLAND”
It became chilly after being on the pier for ten minutes, fall was announcing itself as we waited for the tugboat that cloudy Sunday evening. A crowd was gathered to see one of New York's most anticipated visitors for...
