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An Animated World 30 May 2013 | 04:06 pm
Robert Frost once said that poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. The abrupt, vivid violence of this metaphor is integral to the work of Arda Collins, albeit with just a touch more mystery. Co...
An Audience with the Queen 28 Mar 2013 | 12:57 am
Do you like Goya? was the first thing the Famous Painter asked. Well I knew where he was going with that one. After all, he was famous for more than just being a painter – 30 illegitimate children, or...
The life of a wall - Artists take to the streets of Berlin 2 Mar 2013 | 09:55 pm
James Bullough and Addison Karl are the kind of friends you want to have. Of course, they’re exceptionally talented. But that aside, they’re really great people. They’re men of their words, great for ...
American Girl - A Conversation on The Dolls, The Dream, and The Life with photographer Ilona Szwarc 21 Feb 2013 | 04:01 pm
When I caught sight of Ilona Szwarc’s American Girls project online, I was instantly hooked. Szwarc captured images of girls with their American Girl doll counterparts, and the relationship between th...
Crafting objects into stories - Interview with Sonia Rentsch 12 Feb 2013 | 01:00 pm
I first met Sonia Rentsch in Berlin a couple of years ago when she came to one of my yoga classes. I remember it being grey and wintery, cozy but drafty. I didn’t know then that Sonia was such a creat...
A Gallery Undone - The role of the curator rethought on the Upper East Side 5 Feb 2013 | 02:02 am
The original intensity of a work of art tends to be obscured by the formality of its own presentation. Only occasionally does the framework of typical convention break down, when art can stand for its...
The Artists of Belleville - By Patrick Errington 16 Jan 2013 | 08:20 pm
Sacha Guitry, a Russian-born French dramatist and actor, said famously, “Être parisien, ce n'est pas être né à Paris, c'est y renaître,” (“To be Parisian is not to be born in Paris, but reborn”), a st...
A Year in Reading - a list from Harriet Alida Lye 31 Dec 2012 | 01:00 pm
made a resolution to read only things that moved me and didn't always succeed, but since "move" is a pretty general term, I guess I didn't ever really fail either. I read Surfacing by Margaret Atwood...
Small stories unfolding - Five questions with artist Kyle Hughes-Odgers 13 Dec 2012 | 02:24 am
There’s a Confucius quote that goes something like “the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Kyle Hughes-Odgers is the exceptionally talented Perth-based artist who is carry...
The Triumph of Painting - Art en Capital with Mia Funk 2 Dec 2012 | 06:10 am
Painting is dead, or so everyone keeps telling me, but if that’s the case they haven’t bothered telling the organizers of Art en Capital, nor the tens of thousands who were queuing outside the Grand P...
