POST BY: PADDY JOHNSON All images: AFC The best versions of countless works I’ve seen in my travels to fairs and biennials over the course of last year are currently on display in The Rubell Family Collection’s exhibition “Beg, Borrow and Steal.”���A curators-delight, the show focuses on the at times tediously trendy subject of reproduction [...]

Through 1907, when Vasily Kandinsky was entering his forties, he was a regional artist of little consequence. He had yet to make a painting that was all his. Then something happened. 'Kandinsky,' a major retrospective on view at the Guggenheim...

Deadline for applications to Hordaland Art Centre's residency for 2010 is December 15th 2009. Applications are accepted via e-mail. Hordaland Art Centre has been host to guests since 1987. Today the residency is focused on research as well as production and is an integral part of our programme. The residency is open to international artists, curators, writers and other art professionals. Our guests are expected to have a public presentation during their stay with Hordaland Art Centre. Our guests stay in a quiet residential area seven minutes walk from Hordaland Art Centre in the centre of town. The flat has one bedroom, kitchen, living room and bathroom, as well as a...

MK Guth's work at Pulse (Elizabeth Leach Gallery) More from ABMB, Pulse, Nada and Aqua

It is possible to read the Court’s opinion … in a variety of ways. In saying this, I imply no criticism of the Court, which in those cases was faced with the task of trying to define what may be indefinable … I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I [...]

santigold standard - artforum.com / scene & herd This is pretty funny: “More conspicuous was the empty booth of Christian Haye gallery (né the Project) in Row H. “We just thought they were taking their time to install,” noted one dealer, “but then they never showed up.” On the upside, the fair’s organizers allowed Sies [...]

To the pain in the womb. O womb, womb, womb, womb. Boxy womb, red womb, white womb, fleshy womb, bloody womb, large womb, bloated womb--demonic womb. --From a prayer for curing hysteria, C. 950 , Europe. Lapham’s Quarterly Medicine Issue, p. 175

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[flickrvideo]http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitaflo/4119139342/[/flickrvideo] For our exhibition Benches and Binoculars, I was asked to create a touchscreen kiosk. The artwork in Benches and Binoculars is hung salon-style, making it impractical to use wall labels on works that are hanging 20 feet up...

I just received the impatiently-awaited copy of Jay Ruby's Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America, which, in an uncharacteristically lucky moment, I won in a drawing from "The Thanatos Archive," a members-only website devoted to post-mortem and memorial photography. This...