After a short break, it’s round 6 of my ongoing series of conversations with Michael Itkoff, this time about art fairs and art bubbles. (more)
Jörg Colberg: When I came to New York for a couple days about a week ago, I noticed that everyb…

SYMPOSIUM: URBAN DIGITAL NARRATIVESOne day symposiume -Issues of art, science, technology and the city to be discussed by international academics and open forum Maartin Rieser/ Eva Kekou Keynote: Markos Novak (University of California, Santa Barbara) R…

There’s nothing like ducking out of a stormy evening straight into a former mansion – known to most city dwellers as the Philadelphia Art Alliance. On the evening of March 10, the black of an overcast sky merged into the quiet gray of a brick façade, the sleek wetness of concrete pavements became the brilliant [...]

SH Contemporary 2011 will take place from September 8th to 10th, with preview on the 7th, in downtown Shanghai, at the extraordinary Shanghai Exhibition Center, and with a joint 4-day programme of openings, studio visits and events, in cooperation with the city’s leading galleries and cultural initiatives.

Museum Gallery – Gallery Museum (MG-GM) seeks entries for aTwo-Minute Video Festival to be held in May 2011. MG-GM is an artist-run gallery located in downtown Cincinnati, OH. For more information about the gallery, go to www.mg-gm.com.Submission r…

Colin Doyle Work from his oeuvre. “I am an artist. I make pictures of commonplace objects—a diaper, a skyscraper, dirt. My days are spent in an image-saturated culture and a densely populated city. I often feel like I am in over my head, as if my actions, my existence, and my work are of little [...]

In the Liberty to Libya project an augmented reality dove is currently circling the city of Tripoli, Libya. The dove is carrying a scroll on which tweets from around the world can be seen.http://libertytolibya.wordpress.com/To use the project participa…

The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo MUAC (Contemporary Art University Museum) located in the Cultural Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It’s the largest public institution in Mexico to accommodate a collection of national and international contemporary art. Resplandor y soledad / Splendor and Solitude (2010) curated by Ben Tufnell, is the first [...]

Urban Digital Narratives: Workshop and Symposium Athens Workshop 13th April Locative media: The Street  Μartin Rieser/Eva Kekou Symposium 15th April Urban Digital Narratives Location: National Research Foundation,V. Kostantinou 48 Athens, Greece S…

In November 1991, Nirvana played on all of our car stereos. We smoked clove cigarettes and drove through the Oakland hills with Nevermind blaring over the speakers. Kurt Cobain drowned out all the other sounds. “With the lights out, it’s less dangerous,” he yelled. Shrouded in fog and night, we agreed. Grunge had traveled south [...]

Aram Bartholl Work from Map “The project ‘Map’ is a public space installation questioning the red map marker of the location based search engine Google Maps. “Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.” With a small graphic icon Google marks search results in the map interface. The design of the [...]

WERKKAMP011 July 2011: Artist In Residence FestivalArtists wanted General name : Scheld’apen Vzw address : d’Herbouvillekaai 36, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium tel/fax: 00323/238.23.32 website : www.scheldapen.be e-mail : robin@scheldapen.be disciplines : V…

By Thomas Devaney The “Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painter and Poets” exhibition is dream-like. The dream we enter is the salon atmosphere of the gallery’s early days, creating an overall effect of a group portrait of a handful of individuals who reached out to each other through their art. The exhibition reveals how these poets [...]

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 [...]

An article in the Inquirer this morning notes that the city’s business privilege tax hurts self-employed people — many of them artists. Like duh. But now Gary Steuer, our art czar, is trying to change the provisions in the law to create a deduction for the self-employed who make less than $100,000. Steuer notes that [...]

“To make the monuments speak again we must question the often bland surface they show the world.” –Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slave “Do I speak for everyone? No. No one speaks for everyone.” –Fred Wilson, Afternoons with Amos Artist Fred Wilson looks at what institutions place on view and then uses his art to [...]

“Library” is one of those rare words that held different connotations for me as I made the mystical transition from childhood into maturity. As a child, the small branch of the public library just a few blocks away from my home offered the promise of Reading Rainbow-style journeys into other worlds, bright picture books splattered [...]

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is one of the oldest accredited art and design schools in the US, and The Visiting Artists Program (VAP), where I work as the Program Coordinator, is SAIC’s oldest public program. Founded in 1866, its roots can be traced all the way back to the early [...]

My mother’s desire to retrieve the vestiges of invisible human history is tinged with a certain melancholy. She manages, with only her small digital camera – and no PhotoShop distortions – to make the invisible visible. Water threatens to swallow the city of Venice in arrival (seen after the jump), the cityscape smeared with the [...]

From 2004-mid 2005 I was John Lurie’s Personal Assistant. He lived on a street in SoHo that competes with the chaos and spectacle of any medieval city, and like various reclusive characters from literature he rarely left his sixth floor walk-up, having been diagnosed with what some doctors tentatively called Chronic or Advanced Lyme’s Disease. [...]