This Nomadic Nubian tribe, fictionalized and oft-depicted as a chest-faced breed, occupies a page in the Nuremberg Chronicle, an illustrated world history of 1493.
March 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
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November 2009
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October 2009
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December 25, 2009
Jon Rafman's Kool-Aid Man in Second Life is a must watch. The video reconfigures the soft-drink mascot as the epic hero of an odyssey through virtual reality, including stops at an orgy, a Mesoamerican pyramid, and Tokyo.
December 25, 2009
LowerMyBills ads give new meaning to Oliver Payne and Nick Relph's Swoon Soon (2006).
December 24, 2009
Sassetta, The Meeting of Saints Anthony and Paul, c. 1440. A small masterpiece of lyrical quattrocento Sienese painting, Sassetta's sequential narrative depicts Saint Anthony Abbot's Egyptian desert wandering and subsequent meeting of Saint Paul the Hermit outside his cave dwelling. The punctum? The branch tucked under the satyr's arm.
December 23, 2009
Battery 246, Fort Columbia State Park, Washington; Philip Johnson's painting gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut.
December 17, 2009
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Hewn from the living rock in the fifth century, the 115-ft. Bamiyan Buddhas stood in an Afghan cliff until their destruction by the Taliban in 2001. A source for the Buddhas of the Yungang Grottoes, this Wonder of the Medieval World (if there were such), UNESCO World Heritage Site, and exemplary specimen of monumental Gandharan sculpture is gone. Looking back on the decade in its final fortnight, this ranks among its worst moments, culturally speaking.
December 17, 2009
Museo Publications will be an exhibitor at the Book and Trade Fair for the College Art Association's 98th Annual Conference. Hyatt Regency Chicago, Feb. 10-13, 2010. Details TBA.
December 17, 2009
A few monochrome moments from New York's post-fluorescent naughties. Top to bottom: Vanessa Beecroft, VB64 at Deitch Studios, Long Island City (Kanye not pictured); "Marble" at Gagosian uptown; Jonah Freeman, "Black Acid Coop" at Deitch Wooster -- the gallery shows made up for the Basel booth; an analog cyborg at MoMA's "Bauhaus Lounge" Terence Koh's Gober-esque Untitled (Urinal) in a Javier Peres-curated show at Mary Boone. More musings on the year -- and decade coming.
December 13, 2009
Gabriel Orozco's retrospective opens today at MoMA. The show was organized by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, with Paulina Pobocha, who interviewed Sigalit Landau for vol. 10.
December 11, 2009
Omer Fast's three-part film and video installation Nostalgia is now on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art , in a show associated with his receipt of the Bucksbaum Award in the 2008 Biennial. Caraveggesque chiaroscuro, raking light, and narrative-as-strategy are making early 2010 look a bit like neo-1610.
December 10, 2009
Anthony McCall's show is opening right this minute at Sean Kelly Gallery. McCall's tenebristic projections speak obliquely to the essence of photography, being literally "drawings with light." Pictured here is his You and I, Horizontal (III) (2006).
December 9, 2009
More from the Rubell Family Collection: Wade Guyton, 2007, Untitled, UltraChrome inkjet on linen
December 6, 2009
Details of: John Baldessari, "Art is Food for Thought and Food Costs Money" (1985) at the Rubell Family Collection; a surf n turf vanitas from the Tap Tap murals.
December 4, 2009
Dan Attoe; Pipilotti Rist; Nathalie Djurberg; Santiago Sierra; Barbara Kruger; Madeln
December 2, 2009
This Saturday, Helga Wretman will perform "Global Short Messaging" at the NADA Art Fair in Miami. Her performances, typically collaborative, engage the mutual limitations of the body and technology, reconfiguring ancient topi such as "Death and the Maiden" and posession /bewitchment for our age. According to organizer Dan Bodan, this performance will mark a departure, instead "proposing a communication, channeled through a series of complex
networks from a higher intelligence, which forces our hands to write
out a multivocal message." (images of past projects: Helga Wretman with AIDS-3D, photo for Sang Bleu (top), Venice Biennale Internet Pavilion (bottom).
December 2, 2009
Coming this December. Pictured here: Arakawa + Gins from "Architecture Against Death," Olaf Breuning, "Different Perspectives," Battery Harris, Ft. Tilden, to be rendered as RoMoCA by Bureau V.
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