SHOWS
e-flux journal
May 23, 2013
e-flux journal issue 45: Language and Internet out now
In April, Mark Epstein from the Cooper Union Board of Trustees announced the end of fully subsidized education across the college's art, engineering, and architecture schools. It was a closing chapter in a ferocious battle in the college since it announced its insolvency in 2011. But it may be the beginning of something else. The details are too complex to fully describe here. On the one hand, a shortfall in Cooper's endowment became... continue reading
Cardi Black Box Gallery
May 23, 2013
Shirana Shahbazi, Komposition 64, 2013. C-print on aluminium, framed in white glazed maple frame, behind non-reflective glass. Edition of 3 (+ 1 AP).
Cardi Black Box presents Shirana Shahbazi
Cardi Black Box, the Milan-based contemporary art gallery, is proud to announce an upcoming exhibition of over 60 works by Iranian-German artist Shirana Shahbazi, on view May 27 through July 26, 2013. In addition to displaying Shahbazi's works created during the early 2000s, the exhibition will unveil four of her brand new abstract compositions. Although Shahbazi works primarily with photography, she continually pushes the form's boundaries by... continue reading
NERO
May 23, 2013
NERO No. 32 out now
Conceived as a compendium of autonomous sections, NERO is a publication that collects other serial publications within it; a story composed of various chapters that share no narrative links, but that do belong to the same imaginary. This is an editorial model in which each section corresponds to a project intended to activate interpretive processes or to rethink the modalities of presentation and fruition of the contents. New sections will be... continue reading
REVIEWS
It was a debut, a big one. But the private preview opening of Art Basel Hong Kong was threatened with a black rainstorm warning, which yielded nothing other than the solid banality of Hong Kong humidity. Inside, relief: the Art Basel HK fair feels like a nineteenth-century crystal palace, spacious,... continue reading
The lust to be a “totalizing eye” immediately sprung to mind when walking into Gabriel Lester’s “The Secret Life of Cities.” It’s one of the key notions expressed in Michel de Certeau’s chapter “Walking in the City” that “the fiction of knowledge is related to [the] lust to be a... continue reading
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s and watched the Children’s Television Network/PBS educational series Sesame Street was subliminally prepared for the gamut of conceptualism in (contemporary) art. No character prepared one better than the “Mad Painter,” who popped up in the unlikeliest of places in his Chaplinesque bowler hat... continue reading
