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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)
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 far. I still remember vividly in 2002 a room with a mass of trimmed...
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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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BROOKLYN DESIGNS 2009
Dow Jones Handkerchief by Design Glut. The month of May could have been dubbed 'design month' in New York with events like Brooklyn Designs and ICFF creating a ripple effect of shows and open studios across the c...
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NEW YORK WINTER SHOWS – WILLIAM EGGLESTON, JOAN MIRO AND PIPILOTTI RIST
It’s one of the coldest winters in recent years in New York, but staying home and hibernating has its limits. One December weekend we set out to visit some shows – better to stay warm in well-heated museums, looking a...
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RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER EXHIBITION
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work is featured in two spaces in New York this fall. An outdoor installation at Madison Square Park is being shown simultaneously with two indoor works at Bitforms Gallery. I visited the Bitfor...
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EW YORK FAST FORWARD: 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...
