NEW YORK BLACKOUT 2003
It was a bit after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I had stepped out of my work office to run some errands and was about to go back into the building. As I walked through the doorway, all the lights in the building seemed...
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100 ARTISTS 100 T-SHIRTS
It would appear that the highest form of artistic expression, by today's standards, is to design a T-Shirt. Books such as "The T-shirt Book" and "100% Cotton: T-Shirt Graphics" chronicle the best in T-shirt design. ...
MATTHEW BARNEY “THE CREMASTER CYCLE”
I have to admit, as someone who lives in New York, that I don't go to museums that often. Just to name art and design museums, there are a handful of them that I can think of: Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of...
BLIZZARD OF NEW YORK, 2003
I have been writing Shift since 1999 and there have been very few times that I wrote about something not related to art, design or culture. In fact, the only time that I wrote about such news was September of 2001. An...
FUGITIVES
Fugitives is a group show that brings together seven artists from diverse backgrounds whose work fuses the formal protocols of graphic design, comics and illustration with the more traditional media of painting and co...
DAVID LACHAPELLE “ALL AMERICAN”
David LaChapelle's All American show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery was welcomed by an overflowing crowd full of fashionistas, models, editors, and downtown scenesters. However, missing were the celebrities that have becom...
NYC ADC AWARD 2002
In the world of graphic design and advertising, art direction occupies a significant role in achieving the finished product. On the rainy night of June 6th in New York City, the prestigious Art Director's Club held it...
RINGLING BROTHERS AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS
It began with an email containing the subject line "THE NYC ELEPHANT WALK IS COMING!" I would learn that the occasion was for the annual parade of pachyderms that make their way across Manhattan over the Queens Midto...
FILMS OF FRANCESCO VEZZOLI
Film as a form of art is a source for dubious discussions. On one hand, film is the most widely accepted form of art in the modern-day world. On the other, it is the most commercialized form of art. Therefore, many so...
LISTENING POST
The mounting of the installation, Listening Post, marks both the celebration of a fresh collaboration between Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin but also the mourning of Brooklyn Academy of Music's Artists in Multimedia pro...
UK WITH NY: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
UKwithNY, A two-week festival showcasing the many facets of contemporary British culture, has descended on NYC. Running from October from 14th to 28th, the festival offers New Yorkers a unique opportunity to peruse t...
ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
Around 9 o'clock in the morning of that day, as I walk out of the train and across Port Authority station on the 42nd street, I see an unusual crowd of people gathered around a television in front of the ticket ...
GROUND ZERO: 01
The latest installment of art in the city premiered at a new space on 129 Lafayette under the guise of Ground Zero. The opening event held on August 16th was accompanied with the following mission statement: "R...
BUZZ CLUB: NEWS FROM JAPAN
Even though the world has become much smaller in a metaphorical sense in the last 50 years due to the advancement of communication technology, Japan is still a country far out of reach for many Westerners. When it com...
MERMAID PARADE 2001
People do things. People do things for no particular reason. They do it because it's fun. They do it because it's different. People do things for the sake of doing them. The Mermaid Parade is exactly that. For ...
JEREMY HOLLISTER “PEACEKEEPING”
In our media saturated culture, it is easy to get lost amidst the happenings that surround us promoting the collapse of sound, image, technology, fashion, etc. Such was the case in finding a suitable venue to relay i...
MACROMEDIA UCON 2001
Prior to 1995, that is, prior to the huge acceptance of the Web, Macromedia was a company that made Director. Now, Macromedia is a company that makes Flash. These two tools are very different yet similar, and they def...
