Phillip Scarpone, Loosely Grappled, 2011, Mixed Media
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Digital Folklore: A conversation with Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied at New Museum Tonight | Brooklyn
How is folk culture defined in the digital age? This is the question that renowned artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied set out to answer in their new book, Digital Folklore (2010), an anthology that examines an emergent kind of amateur, popular art: the kind made by computer users. The artists write: “Users’ endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, kittens, and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.” At this talk, part of the monthly New Silent Series, Lialina and Espenschied will present their groundbreaking book, and their new definition of contemporary folk art. -New MuseumThursday, April 14, 2011
Filip Zorzor | Berlin
Filip Zorzor, Dschalalabad bis Iqaluit, 2010 , Acrylic and Gesso on Canvas, 2 x 145 x 260 cmWednesday, April 13, 2011
David Maisel | San Francisco
David Maisel, History’s Shadow GM12, 2010, Archival Pigment Prints, 40" x 30", Ed. of 7 
David Maisel, History’s Shadow AB1, 2010, C-print, 40" x 30", Ed. of 7Through the x-ray, the artworks of origin become de-familiarized and de-contextualized, yet acutely alive and renewed. Culled from archives and re-photographed by the artist, the spectral qualities of these renderings are like transmissions from the distant past, conveying messages across time. -David Maisel
Friday, April 8, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
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