Maeve Connolly identifies artists’ cinemas as a new form of contemporary public art, demonstrating how artists make explicit the importance of desire, fantasy and projection in the ongoing production of the public sphere.
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Doug Rickard’s photography appropriates imagery of American suburbs found in Google Street View. In this interview Siobhán Bohnacker questions the role of the photographer and discusses Rickard’s social critique.
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'Does art have a sex? And if so, what does it look like?' With these questions Amna Malik opens her study of Sarah Lucas's Au Naturel, an assemblage of objects that suggest male and female body parts.
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Kathy Noble identifies a yearning for pre-digital days in her survey of AV Festival 2012 and asks whether the outcome of fast-paced technological revolutions might be a new appreciation of human failure.
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In the early years of the French Revolution, the red flag was a sign of martial law, displayed by the gendarmerie to warn civilians that if they didn't disperse they would be fired on...
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Edited by IRWIN, East Art Map surveys the extraordinary artistic landscape of the eastern half of the European continent and attempts to reconstruct some of the hidden histories of contemporary art.
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Maeve Connolly identifies artists’ cinemas as a new form of contemporary public art, demonstrating how artists make explicit the importance of desire, fantasy and projection in the ongoing production of the public sphere.
Tags: Phil Collins
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Doug Rickard’s photography appropriates imagery of American suburbs found in Google Street View. In this interview Siobhán Bohnacker questions the role of the photographer and discusses Rickard’s social critique.
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'Does art have a sex? And if so, what does it look like?' With these questions Amna Malik opens her study of Sarah Lucas's Au Naturel, an assemblage of objects that suggest male and female body parts.
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Kathy Noble identifies a yearning for pre-digital days in her survey of AV Festival 2012 and asks whether the outcome of fast-paced technological revolutions might be a new appreciation of human failure.
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In the early years of the French Revolution, the red flag was a sign of martial law, displayed by the gendarmerie to warn civilians that if they didn't disperse they would be fired on...
Tags: Chris Marker
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Edited by IRWIN, East Art Map surveys the extraordinary artistic landscape of the eastern half of the European continent and attempts to reconstruct some of the hidden histories of contemporary art.
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In this examination of Group Material's Timeline, Claire Grace
considers the ambivalent relationship to time and
historicisation embedded within their use of a graphic, linear
timeline.
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Terry R. Myers discusses the blissful time lapse of Mary Heilmann's Save the Last Dance for Me (1979), in which the 1950s of her youth, the late-1970s landfall of New Wave style and the 'last dance' of painting come together on one canvas.
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Books
Tate Modern presents 'Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan', an opportunity to see significant works by the influential Arte Povera artist, including Mappa and other works related to travel, geography and displacement.
For a focused study of Alighiero Boetti's practice, read Luca Cerizza's One Work Book on Mappa, in which he contextualises his work within the contemporary art movements of Minimalism, Conceptualism and Arte Povera.
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Exhibition
'Observation Point', an exhibition of new work by Zoe Leonard – including a room-sized camera obscura – can be seen at Camden Arts Centre in London until the 24 June 2012.
For more on Leonard's work see Tom McDonough and Sophie Berrebi's discussion of Analogue (1998-2009), Zoe Leonard's decade-long photographic survey of the landscape of small-scale commerce and urban services in cities around the globe in issue 25 of Afterall journal.
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