Show Here Not There: San Diego Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Artists in show David Adey, Agitprop, Adam Belt, Susannah Bielak, Brian Black and Ryan Bulis, Kelsey Brookes, Sheldon Brown, Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand, Brian Dick, Tom Driscoll, Kelly Eginton, Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g. lab, James Enos, [...]

Review by Richard Gleaves ... context largely determines what kind of music is written. Maybe the analogy applies to other forms of creation as well — painting, sculpture, programming or performance — or at least the shape of them... The architecture, the space, the platform, the software, in a sense makes the art. — David Byrne [...]

Review by Mónica Blundell from Buenos Aires, Argentina Before visiting the Futurism exhibition at Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires, I did not know what Futurism was nor was I aware of its existence as an artistic and social movement. The gist of it is the following: it originated in Italy in the early 20th century, along the same time frame [...]

Review by Alexandra Deyzac London - Inspired by a story written by Jorge Luis Borges, the exhibition The Library of Babel: In and Out of Space (176 Project Space) displays the Zabludowicz collection as a beautiful yet strange library. The artworks are juxtaposed to produce an infinity of combinations in relation to the various dialogues that t [...]

Me, a tourist, scoping out yet another tourist in one of the central squares of Antwerp To show how little I knew about Belgium, at the end of the last post in Brussels, I said that I would be posting next from Antwerp and Anvers.  As it turns out, they are the same city.  Cleaner than Brussels without being inauthentic, everything is crisp a [...]

I spent the weekend in Brussels visiting Art Brussels and the Wiels Museum.   I don't have a lot of experience with big contemporary art fairs so this was somewhat unchartered territory for me.  Jason Graham, an artist and good friend from Sarah Lawrence, was working the fair with Fifty One Fine Art, and happily invited me to come check it o [...]

FEDERICO GUZMÁN, "Hombre = árbol" ("Homme = arbre"), 2009 Le CENTQUATRE, billed simply as an "Artistic Establishment of the City of Paris", is a large warehouse-turned-arts-space in the 19th arrondissement.  I can't help but reproduce the history of the building as found on the 104.fr website: After the Diocese constructed the building in 1873 [...]

Since, after an annoying visit to the SFR store near Les Halles, I found myself in the area, I decided to treat myself to the Lucian Freud exhibit at the Centre Pompidou (9 euros tarif reduit quand-meme!).  Luckily, it was well worth it.  I squeeze off three shots before being informed that photography is interdit in the special exhibitions, so [...]

Review by James Gorski, Washington D.C. A couple of months back I was fortunate enough to get invited to the opening of the Chester Dale Collection exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. While the museum houses the collection on a permanent basis, the period constraints set by the "modern" East and "everything else" West wings have kept many [...]

Review by Alexandra Deyzac, London Shithead, Chris Ofili Walking under the drizzly weather of London had me arrive to Tate Britain feeling cleansed and fresh. I was both physically and mentally prepared to enter the colorful realm of Chris Ofili’s exhibition. On my way up to the first floor of the museum, I listened to a Mobb Deep track on my m [...]