Seon Ghi Bahk: Fiction and the Fabricated Image: The Korean artist’s explosive charcoal installation at Miami’s Zadok Gallery

Seon Ghi Bahk: Fiction and the Fabricated Image


Nylon threads and neatly erupted charcoal bits take over Miami’s Zadok Gallery in “Fiction and the Fabricated Image”—an exhibition that opens this weekend by the South Korean artist Continue Reading…

Digital Revolution: Google Developers partner with the Barbican for an extensive, interactive exhibit that displays code as art

Digital Revolution


Technology, in the literal sense, has always been a major part of the human experience. From the first development of tools to make meager cave-dwelling existences less miserable to electricity to the ubiquity of broadband internet, life is bound to these methods of…

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The Postcard is a Public Work of Art: Mailable works of art by 60 Britain-based artists on show in London

The Postcard is a Public Work of Art


No matter where you go in the world, you will, no doubt, have the opportunity to pick up a postcard to commemorate the place and time. Taking the novel piece of rectangle card and transforming it into a canvas with near infinite potential,…

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Helmut Newton at the Annenberg Space for Photography: The king of kink comes to LA in an exhibition of large format photography

Helmut Newton at the Annenberg Space for Photography


As the photographer credited with defining the genre of black-and-white fashion photography, Helmut Newton is nevertheless rarely found outside the pages of books and magazines. That’s why our ears perked up when the recordOutboundLink(this,…

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Shoplifter’s Solstice Installation: Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardottir pays tribute to the sun in her mixed-media sculpture

Shoplifter's Solstice Installation


The summer solstice is the official start of summer and the longest day of the year. It’s also a time to get together with friends and family for food, drinks and—in the higher reaches of the northern hemisphere—bask in the midnight sun. Nobody…

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I’m So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth: Artist Aïda Ruilova talks about themes of desire, exploitation and escape in her first West Coast show

I'm So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth


by Vivianne Lapointe “I’m So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth,” a multidisciplinary exhibition by West Virginia-born, New York-based artist Aïda Ruilova, presents…

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I’m So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth: Artist Aïda Ruilova talks about themes of desire, exploitation and escape in her first West Coast show

I'm So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth


by Vivianne Lapointe “I’m So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth,” a multidisciplinary exhibition by West Virginia-born, New York-based artist Aïda Ruilova, presents…

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Social Fabric: Seven artists turn fabric into a tactile discussion of culture, commerce and war

Social Fabric

Currently showing at Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) of Los Angeles, “Social Fabric” presents the work of seven artists across installations, performances, workshops and collaborative projects made primarily from cloth. Curated by Anuradha Vikram of the Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley, the exhibit showcases the work of Stephanie…

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Las Vegas Neon Museum: Resurrecting the iconic lights of Sin City

Las Vegas Neon Museum

By Corey Lewis A wide lens on Las Vegas today shows a city that, while taken over in recent decades by a sterile, mega-mall homogeny along its new main drag, is still no stranger to design, studded with architectural monuments from Rafael Viñoly and Daniel Libeskind (and a tombstone by…

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Worm Carnevale: The subversive Bushwick photographer on reversing received meanings through DIY and technology

Worm Carnevale

Take teenage sexuality and factor in violence and irony and you get Worm Carnevale. Originally from Florida and now based in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, Carnevale moved to New York in 2008. Whether for film, photography or installation, his provocative imagery combines the obvious with the abstract, comedy with drama…

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