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- Gary Indiana and the Five Percent Paradox
This is so important, I can’t believe I didn’t post it earlier.
- Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
The United States’ newest museum of modern art opened on January 2 to much fanfare locally, and very little notice on the national level. One can only speculate as to the reasons why. Perhaps the proliferation of contemporary art museums, with numerous institutions dedicated to living artists in every major city, has clouded our memory [...]
- Discosalope
TONIGHT, 27 January, SLUM presents
DISCOSALOPE, a performance by Marc-Andre Casavant
DISCOSALOPE is not completely a man and not exactly a woman.
Refreshing, amusing and disturbing…Marc-Andre Casavant’s spoken word-interactive-theatrical performance about the craziness of over-consumption in society will not leave anybody indifferent!!!
Before&after set by DJ Goddamnit.
SLUM - Berlin’s anti-art salon
Every Wednesday at
Ficken3000
Urbanstr. 70
Berlin
Doors open at 22:00; show starts [...]
- You’ve gotta be kidding me
First Jeff Koons, now Takashi Murakami? What’s with this conspiracy to clutter Versailles’s halls with crap? I mean, what’s next? Maybe fill the Louvre with elephant shit?
- Lucrecia Martel’s La mujer sin cabeza
A woman driving down a dirt road runs over something. At first, she thinks it is “only” a dog (this only is always negligible; one of the points of the film), but later, after the fact, she decides in her mind that it was in fact a child. Nobody can convince her otherwise.
A woman hits [...]
- Mark Ther @ SLUM, January 20th
There will be a screening of Mark Ther’s video work on January 20th at SLUM, the anti-art salon I co-curate with Tennessee Claflin every Wednesday night at Ficken3000, Urbanstr. 70, Berlin. Doors open at 22:00; the screening will start at 1:00. The evening includes a before & after set by DJ Goddamnit.
- Robert Mapplethorpe & Sterling Ruby @ Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
A very strange exhibition, and one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The show is actually Ruby’s — or more precisely, Ruby selected photographs of Mapplethrope’s and then made sculptural works responding to them. But Ruby’s work seems to have nothing to do with Mapplethorpe’s at first glance; and the more you [...]
- The Art of Two Germanys
My review of The Art of Two Germanys just went online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
- Baselitz & bad painting/the making of suiciders
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Georg Baselitz and his notion of “bad painting.” How this might correspond to writing, “bad writing.” To write badly on purpose. There is not much of a history to this anti-tradition in literature. Kathy Acker was one of the few writers who openly did it, then there’s the [...]
- Italian Futurism in Czech and English
I recently started writing forLiterarni Noviny, a Czech-language publication. You can now read my first article for them, a review of Languages of Futurism at Martin-Gropius-Bau, on Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, in the original English.
