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Deconstructed devices become art through the lens of one man’s camera
There’s a perverse pleasure that comes from taking something apart or seeing exactly how things tick. However, most people are brave enough to disassemble their favourite devices or day-to-day items […]
David Zwirner Books teams up with Simon & Schuster
In recent years, the art world publishing scene has rapidly grown with major galleries offering their own publishing operation. While shops that specialized in art books have closed, galleries and […]
Roland Barthes goes to the movies
Bringing some of the major influences in the Humanities into the context of film criticism is the zeitgeist of the moment. As an example, in 2011 Patrice Maniglier and Dork […]
‘The Condition of Being Here’: a retrospective of Jasper Johns drawings
The Menil Drawing Institute in Houston has recently opened an exhibition of drawings by American artist Jasper Johns celebrating both his dedication as a draftsman and a forthcoming catalogue of […]
Roberto Longhi: the eye and the verb
What a lucky group of Roman schoolboys there must have been at the start of the 20th century! They were the ones that the lectures currently compiled under the title […]
Charbon : the night that burns
Charbon, which translates into English as coal is, above all, a beautiful thing, a beautiful black thing that shines and burns like the material that bears its name. Charbon is […]
Zoe Leonard’s ‘I Want a President’ revived to benefit HIV/AIDS activism group
‘I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance […]
