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by Yaelle Amir
Judith Fegerl, Dariusz KOWALSKI, Paul Laffoley, Nicolas GROSPIERRE & Kobas LAKSA, Mark Lombardi, Cory ARCANGEL & Hanne MUGAAS, Rachel Owens, Florian & Michaël QUISTREBERT, Gerold TAGWERKER, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Tris Vonna-Michell, Flora WATZAL, Jordan Wolfson at Austrian Cultural Forum New York May 27th, 2010 - September 5th, 2010
Posted 8/22/10

The Austrian Cultural Forum has been consistently staging politically oriented exhibitions for a few years now, surrounding pertinent historical events and current conundrums. NineteenEightyFour follows suit with a collection of works that consider surveillance methods and structures of control. This topic is treated in a very liberal and often puzzling way, though the quality of most of the works is generally high. Referring to George Orwell’s famous book 1984, the exhibition capt... [more]

EAF08 at Socrates

by Alison Levy
Martin Basher, Chelsea Beck, Michael Berens, Sari Carel, Adriana Farmiga, Kimberley Hart, Rajkamal Kahlon, Kim Beck & Osman Khan, Jason Bailer Losh, Matthew Lusk, Jong Il Ma, Ted McCann, Juniper Perlis, Harriet Salmon at Socrates Sculpture Park September 7th, 2008 - March 1st, 2009
Posted 9/21/08

The 2008 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park consists of a very coherent, seemingly curated, group art exhibition. Upon arriving to the grounds I immediately spotted a sculpture arranged from garbage and painted white, and then another work of a small room enclosed by Plexiglas. This installation included a plant and a nature painting, as well as an artwork consisting of a big store's electronic doors with motion sensors and "Grand Opening" flags. It seemed that this exhibit has captured the contemp... [more]