On June 9, 1978, an obituary appeared with the headline "On the death of Hannah Hoch, the bob-haired muse of the Men's Club." For much of her life, Hoch had been characterized as the "It Girl" of the macho Berlin art circle dominated by George Grosz, John Heartfield, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Raoul Ha

Dada, Eclectic, Intense, Playful, Quirky

Trained as a filmmaker Lafia's work is informed by a joyous engagement with the formal qualities of artistic practice. In his own words, his "work is an exploration of how discourse constructs itself." His early experimental films -- "Auto-re-tour" and "Fini La Guerre" -- investigate the tensions be

Avant-garde film, Chance, Collage, Ebullient, Excessive, Loose, Net art, Open-ended, Playful, Sprawling, Wise assy

"Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are

Biomorphic, Der blaue reiter, Fantastic, Machinistic, Playful

The statuesque Weimaraners that are the subjects of William Wegman's signature portraits have less to do with the stranded kittens of 'Hang in There' poster fame than they do with the works of Cindy Sherman or even Edward Weston. Like Sherman, Wegman is a practitioner of setup photography, a method i

Cartoonish, Conceptual photography, Playful, Witty