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LAURA OWENS
A survey of paintings by 32-year old artist Laura Owens, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is currently showing at the Art Museum of Milwaukee about ninety miles north of Chicago. Laura Owe...
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MATMOS
A few years ago I picked up a copy of Matmos' self-titled first album at Aquarius Records in San Francisco. Or was it Amoeba? I can't quite recall. I bought the album at a time when I was indiscriminately buying ridic...
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BRASIL INSPIRED
Brasil Inspired has recently been released from Die Gestalten Verlag. The book is filled with art from all over the world, with a Brazilian theme. It was compiled by Brazilian artist Nando Costa, who was profiled by S...
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VISUALOGUE
October 8th. The auditorium was filled with thousands of anxious spectators. The beat of traditional Noh drums and flutes welcomed us to the 20th Icograda Congress. Visualogue had officialy begun. Visualogue staf...
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TOKYO DESIGNERS BLOCK 2003
Tokyo Designers Block (TDB) was held throughout Tokyo in areas such as Aoyama, Harajuku, Shibuya, Roppongi, Daikanyama, Shinjuku, etc from October 9th to 13th. It is a very unique art festival not only in terms of its...
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CHEN ZHEN “SILENCE SONORE”
The highly anticipated "Silence sonore" at the Palais de Tokyo is the first major show at a parisian institution devoted to the chinese artist Chen Zhen. Chen Zhen was born in Shangai in 1955 and France as his residen...
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GENEVIEVE GAUCKLER
French graphic designer, Genevieve Gauckler created the cover design for this issue. She creates images by "sampling" different kinds of things into an image such as pictures, characters or everyday items. Her most un...
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KEIKO MIYATA + THE ANALOG GIRL “DANGEROUS POP”
This exhibition is by Keiko Miyata, an artist who creates wonderful and strange stuffed animals. Following last year's exhibition "IN&OUT", Soso Cafe was filled with cute and scary stuffed animals. The exhibit's o...
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ART IT
Now, there's one more topic. Recently, there is "art vogue" in the publishing world featuring art topics in general magazines. In this situation, one deep art magazine has started. It is "ART iT". ("iT" is an ab...
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“HAPPINESS: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR ART AND LIFE”
Japanese say that autumn is for art, reading or eating, etc.. These were some good topics, suitable for "autumn for art" in Tokyo in autumn 2003. The hottest topic in the Japanese art world is the opening of Mori Art ...
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VANCOUVER BIENNIAL OF PERFORMANCE ART 2003
"Performance art is anything but bookish which could explain the lack of written history which has contributed to many misconceptions. The Academy's misrepresentation and misunderstanding have left performance art as ...
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TOKYO DOLL SHOW
I recently took the time to visit the Tokyo Doll Show at the DX here in Toronto on the advice of my friend Derrick Hodgson (MDRL, Hoboyard). I was aware of some of the interesting new things happening such as the caps...
