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Cibo eclettico in mostra alla Hamiltons Gallery - l'arte di Irving Penn

In mostra alla Hamiltons Gallery il cibo eclettico, stravagante e a tratti inquietante di Irving Penn, fotografo americano (1917).... more

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Trasalimenti 2000 I parte - "Nella mostra" con Elio di blasio e Gianni Valentini

TRASALIMENTI PROGETTO PER L'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA nella mostra con Elio Di Blasio e Gianni Valentini BORGO MEDIEVALE DI ... more

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Royal T Tea Time

Where do you go to see hot girls in French maid costumes in LA? Check out Royal/T, LA's version of Tokyo's trendy maid... more

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Street with a View

Find out what a couple of Pittsburgh artists, a giant chicken, a medieval sword battle and Google's Street View have in common.

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Maslen & Mehra - l'invasione delle sagome silenziose

Maslen & Mehra rivolgono il loro sguardo su Metropoli come Parigi e Berlino, boschi e foreste, spiagge desolate, svelando lati... more

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Yoko Furusho - surrealismo dai toni pastello

Yoko Furusho è un’illustratrice giapponese le cui opere sono pregne di surrealismo, ma senza mai trascnedere in... more

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ANICE

Videoclip della traccia audio dell'omonimo cd "ANICE" autoprodotto dalla band emergente indie rock italiana... more

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Sectioned.

cageone has been part of the U.K graffiti scene since the mid eighties. Producing a collection of unique and diverse imagery,... more

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400ml. La Collection

The spraycan is one of the emblematic symbols of street art, as much for connoisseurs as for the artists of this movement, even if... more

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"strays"

The word stray describes a moment of digression, the occasional and scattered world in which we live today leaves us all being... more

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Nikon S60 VCAM: What Do You Photograph?

Greetings CURRENT Viewers, For the Nikon S60 VCAM I've woven together some of the earliest images captured on film, a... more

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LA: LETTERSANDLIGATURES @Subliminal Projects thru 12/5

SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS is pleased to announce Letters and Ligatures, the exhibition that delves into the alphabetical world of the... more

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Miami: Anri Sala and The Possibility of an Island @Museum of Contemporary Art

The first major museum exhibition by Albanian artist Anri Sala features seven films from the late 1990s to the present including a... more

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Big Easy's Art Comeback

While much attention has been paid to revitalizing New Orleans' infrastructure and economy, a new art biennial happening now... more

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Meats and Books

A couple of exhibitions in New York and San Francisco highlight works made from some common materials that you might not have... more

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LA: Tomma Abts @Hammer Museum thru 11/9

Tomma Abts creates small, severe paintings that provide an intriguing antidote to the florid figuration that has dominated the... more

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NYC: Doug Aitken @303 Gallery thru 11/8

In concurrent exhibitions at 303 Gallery's 22nd street and 21st street spaces, Doug Aitken utilizes multiple media to create psychological environments that are at once unique, familiar and alien. For the inaugural exhibition in 303 Gallery's 21st street space, Aitken presents "Migration", the first in a 3-part cycle of installations titled "Empire." In “Migration” the movements of wild North American migratory animals are transposed upon the ubiquitous space of modern roadside hotels and motels. As the wild birds and animals inhabit these mysteriously vacant and sterile interiors we’re taken on a haunting odyssey through the contemporary American landscape. With the film alternating between three billboards within the gallery space, the viewer is left to determine his own place in the often desolate and alienating transitory spaces which man inhabits.

Continuing to investigate the constructed landscapes that prevail in our everyday world, Aitken re-imagines our streets and urban landscapes as an almost psychedelic experience in a series of 30 abstract watercolors. Upon entering a glowing white circular room in the 22nd street space, the viewer is surrounded by the paintings, which suggest futuristic cityscapes collapsing onto themselves. Contrasting the calmness of pure geometric space with the sensory qualities of the city, each composition is imagined through multiple overlapping perspectives. In the back gallery, Aitken creates a series of large illuminated signs filled with panoramic photographs that are enigmatic explorations of the modern landscape using a combination of text and image. "Vulnerable" plays on paranoia with its photograph of a nearly abandoned airport, while "Star" uses a nocturnal image of a city to re-conceive a new kind of solar system.

“Migration” is included in the 55th Carnegie International exhibition “Life on Mars” where the piece is projected on the museum’s façade through January 2009. Aitken has had numerous solo exhibitions internationally including his 2007 exhibition "sleepwalkers", a nighttime installation comprised of seven large scale moving images projected on the facades of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, co-produced by Creative Time. Aitken has also had solo exhibitions at the ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Serpentine Gallery, London, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan. . His installation "electric earth" was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, 2000 and was awarded the International Prize at the Venice Biennale, 1999. Aitken’s newest book “99 cent Dreams” was published in 2008 by Aspen Art Museum as a follow up to his solo exhibition there, and his artist book “Write In Jerry Brown President” will be published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York in October 2008. In concurrent exhibitions at 303 Gallery's 22nd street and 21st street spaces, Doug Aitken utilizes multiple media to create... more