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...
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 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'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
"While photography revolutionized the arts by superseding painting's claim to represent the 'real', digital technology has become the ultimate tool for capturing the nuances of the 'unreal'." This statement in BitStre...
Workspheres at The Museum of Modern Art brings together a collection of objects and environments that represent the convergence of our everyday lives with the workplace. At the core of the exhibition is the role desi...
