Yinka Shonibare MBE (Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2008) ISBN 978-3-7913-4123-1 Yinka Shonibare is a contemporary of the Young British Artists and while he exhibited with them, he has never been considered one of the group. Unlike them, he creates work of unapologetic beauty.  Shonibare uses beauty as a hook; it draws audiences for his manipulated, historicist [...]

ARS 11
15 April– 27 November 2011

The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos presents Moments of Beauty, a groundbreaking exhibition of work by the Nigerian artist J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere. Occasionally elegiac, but invariably elegant, the photographs in this exhibition reflect what the artist deems as “moments of beauty,” referring to the ebullience of Nigerian life engendered by independence and decolonisation.

SHEARGLORY, A GROUP EXHIBITION FOR CARRIE MAE ROSE & ELENA ROSE AILES Opening 7pm-10pm on Friday, March 11th. On view until April 3rd, 2011. ShearGlory is as sharp as it is soft. Carrie Mae’s sculptures and couture costumes are made of confiscat…

By Daniel Forrest Hoffman The beauty of a city, a building, or a home has often been explored through natural signs of age. The “lived in” quality of a place is usually what allows it to speak about itself and its history. Erin Murray’s solo exhibition “Architecture Parlante” at Slingluff Gallery (through Feb 27) explores the [...]

Bohyun Yoon has been taking photographs of the people of Philadelphia . One of them turned out to be my friend Wendy, who was out in Rittenhouse Square walking her standard poodle Nelly when Bo approached. She talked, he talked, and they found out they had me in common. Wendy’s face is now one of [...]

15 September – 31 December 2011

The title of the next Biennale de Lyon, A Terrible Beauty Is Born, is a verse from the poem Easter, 1916 written by W.B. Yeats on September of that year on the uprising by which hundreds of Irish rebels claimed emancipation from the British. At first sight, the poem could be read as celebrating the martyrs that gave their life for the cause of independence.

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Gaël Odilon Paccard Work from Bits and Pieces. Bits and pieces is simultaneously familiar and foreign. This dichotomy, however, is not necessarily what draws me to the work. The images patently acknowledge the image as an effect of process. While one could argue that the image of image inherently addresses the function of the photograph, what is often missing is the [...]

The search for a single unifying principle–a mathematical formula, or the atom, or God–is the sort of romantic obsession that underlies the Institute of Contemporary Art exhibit Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry. The exhibit is spare, with some small architectural models and some enormous geometrical forms large enough to step into–all below an enormous hanging double-helix, [...]

Lots, an exhibition of Daniel Traub’s color photography now at The Print Center, explores intersections of devastation and beauty found in abandoned lots throughout Philadelphia. The exhibition includes eight photographs from Traub’s Lots series. Traub has a life-long connection to these images, all dated 2010. His father, David Traub, is an architect who is dedicated [...]

Michael Alan//The Living InstallationBODY ISSUESSaturday February 5th, 2011|9pm-2amBushwick Project for the Arts304 Meserole StreetBrooklyn NY 11206*L to Meserole, 1 block from trainTICKETS $17 online, $20 at the doorThe obsessions of our culture have …

Michael Alan//The Living Installation<br />
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BODY ISSUES<br />
Saturday February 5th, 2011|9pm-2am<br />
Bushwick Project for the Arts<br />
304 Meserole Street<br />
Brooklyn NY 11206<br />
*L to Meserole, 1 block from train<br />
TICKETS $17 online, $20 at the door<br />
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The obsessions of our culture have led to universal body issues — from commercial images, propaganda, television, sports, porn, beauty ideals. Everyone at some point in their life has or is dealing with being uncomfortable in their own skin. They are affected by perception, imagination, emotions, physical sensations and environment. How do we change this?<br />
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Featuring live music by DECREPIT JAW & EPILEPTIC PEAT<br />
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Carlee Fernandez Work from Man. “…In her newest work entitled “Man,” Fernandez probes the power, aggressiveness, and macho beauty of the men who have been influential in her life and her art-making through contemporary self-portraiture. By juxtaposing her body next to or entwined with images of masculinity through photographs, video, and sculpture, the work is [...]

Swiss Institute
November 24 – January 22, 2011

Renowned for seminal works in the respective mediums of film and painting, Harmony Korine and Rita Ackermann meet and overlap with their shared interest in unorthodox and mischievous beauty. Central to the praxis of both is the creation of psychologically jarring figures, whose presence is further enhanced by fragmented narratives.

Kristin Neville-Taylor co-founded Little Berlin with Martha Savery in 2007.  Recently, she curated the show “Landscape Techne” at the alternative space.  In this clip she talks about the large, sumptuous — and completely cyber-generated — landscape photographs by Alex McLeod that appeared in the show, which closed Nov. 27.  Is beauty in art suspect these [...]

Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci
17 October 2010 – 13 February 2011

Michael Lin is renown for his large-scale wall and floor paintings inspired by floral patterns derived from Taiwanese textiles of the 1950′s. These have been part of numerous high-profile exhibitions around the world.

We always hope to find a surprise in Chelsea–something we didn’t expect and that knocked our socks off.  We don’t always find it.  But this time we found a star — Mika Rottenberg’s video installation Squeeze at Mary Boone. (Thanks to Diane Burko and Lenore Malen for suggesting this was one not to miss). The [...]

Oksana Yushko is one of the winners of this year’s Conscientious Portfolio Competition. About her work, juror Susanna Brown wrote: “Oksana Yushko’s project Kenozero Dreams reveals both the beauty and banality of life for the inhabitants of Kenoze…

Lee Gainer Work from Frankenlovley. “My work explores culturally accepted and media supported perceptions. I manipulate found imagery and objects in order to visually analyze the unwritten rules and hidden messages associated with modern American life.  By focusing on one aspect within a specific, media driven ideal, I examine the psychology behind these conventions and [...]

Life is fleeting; therefore, life is beautiful. This expression is based on one of the values in Japanese aesthetics: impermanence. The fragile and transitory qualities of impermanence are considered exceptionally beautiful. This idea describes the c…