It may seem futuristic cinema to picture men in helicopters stampeding wild horses down the Western range – but rather than a hybrid of Mad Max and the Misfits, this is a description of the cyborg future that is now. Wild horses being rounded up for holding in BLM pens are run to the point of injury or death. Estimates hold there are more wild horses being held (38,000) now More …
The Art of the Americas Wing at Museum of Fine Arts Boston opened to the press on November 12th and to the public on November 21st. The 11-year-project of expanding the museum (ground broke in 2005) combined the ambitions of the British-born museum director, Malcolm Rogers, the board of trustees, and the architectural fiat of London-based Foster & Partners, led by Lord Norman Foster. On an unusually sunny Boston November More …
Tattooing has come a long way since the days when it was associated mainly with drunken sailors and prison inmates. Today the human body is regarded, by many, as a blank canvas and the work being done by the best tattooists is, undeniably, art. That was clearly evident last Friday and Saturday evening, at a highly unconventional show dedicated to the work of celebrated tattoo artist, Dawn Furlong (better known More …
It is somewhat ironic that Julian Schnabels current exhibition, “Julian Schnabel: Art and Film”, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Torontos version of New York Citys MoMA, is following in the footsteps of the museums King Tut exhibition, as both men are known for doing things in a very big way – King Tut with his tomb, and Schnabel, highly in evidence here, with his titanic canvases that all but More …
Much-awaited, The Fighter takes you to the ring with the talented sensitive boxer Mickey Ward, a struggling welterweight who is torn between the discipline needed to win fights and the bond with his meddling mother and his crack addict ex-boxer brother. If that isnt enough, there is a chorus of Irish-American sisters around who chose the bar instead of the convent for evening prayers. Much-awaited, The Fighter takes you to More …
Vertical Migration, like other works by choreographer and dancer Sher-Machherndl, is a dance about human life where momentum shifts, plans change, the simplest moments spawn great things, the biggest ideas collapse into nothing and there are ups and downs, fluid joy and crippling pain. All of this compressed into a mere hour on stage set to music equally diverse compiled by musician and composer Zoe Keating, a contemporary cellist. Vertical More …
A lone middle-aged woman crosses the bridge to Ciudad Juárez. The short distance from El Paso, Texas to Juárez is a walk into hell. A zone of torture, execution and mutilation, where people move in a state of fear and silence. Between 2007-2009, Alice Leora Briggs ventured this walk alone to document the horrors, morgues, asylums, and death houses only steps from our border. The results are sgrafitto drawings that More …
Keep Adding is a multimedia art collective of artists Brian Bixby and Noah McDonald that emerged in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2000. Although Keep Adding has executed projects throughout the country and Europe, the group returned to Las Cruces in September this year to paint “Wave Nest”””a 24-foot by 48-foot mural. I interviewed Noah MacDonald, about graffiti art, the work of Keep Adding, and their latest mural project, “Wave More …
In a moment of anger two years ago, Conrad Burns, the Republican former senator from Montana who received campaign funds through super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff declared that “Jack Abramoff should never have been born.” It was an easy comment for Burns to make. Abramoff was already under indictment and cooperating with US authorities who were investigating allegations of crimes committed by Abramoffs political friends, some of whom would end up in More …
Its pretty rare, even these days, when you can spot the imminent death of a common cliché. Very soon the old adage, “Fake it until you make it” will be shown the door to the back 40 and set out to graze. “Fake it until you make it” has probably been around since the first band in history figured out they needed to lie their way onto the big stage, More …
The current status of the world is alarming: between inundation of digital data and environmental crises in the so-called first world, disease and catastrophe unrelenting in the second and third. As the unemployment rate in the U.S. intractably high, one could infer there are too many people for America to employ; the same Americans, especially without new society skills, perceive too much in-flow to keep track of – between RSS More …
SANTA FE-There was a rumble or three at the NCECA Critical Santa Fe symposium, as Garth Clark played human trip-wire during a recurrent fireworks display. His detonators included Professor and critic Donald Kuspit (SUNY Stony Brook) and art critic Janet Koplos (Art in America, American Craft), who assert that Clarks twin lives as a nationally-awarded art critic who makes money dealing in ceramics puts him in overt conflict when he More …