The exhibition on view at Le BAL until April 14, 2013, has nothing in common with what we usually call an exhibition, a term that makes one think of walls, frames, lighting and buyers. You might call it an installation, and this is one, but it’s an installation’s responsibility to...

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Civilization must be monitored and rid of deviant pleasures; the symptoms of totalitarian progress are multiplying in public spaces: censorship and repression of evil pleasures are ubiquitous, a proliferation of media and pornography, chips implanted in the living body, molecular...

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Ilya Piganov is very famous among art community. There were two solo exhibitions — Volume I at the State Tretyakov Gallery and at the Marble Palace in St-Petersburg in 1996 and Volume II at the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in 2005. Both of them made med...

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People closed in for over 12 months. With very little or no information on where they will go or what will happen to them. Blankets that have never been washed for shortage of water. Bread and jam for breakfast, every day! For lunch, rice; for dinner, rice with a little b...

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Thomas Mailaender attracted attention with his Chicken Museum exhibition at the 2011 Rencontres d’Arles, but the majority of this troublemaker’s work had been on display for years in titles by RVB Books, a publishing house that recently opened a gallery and bookstore in Paris. ...

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La Fábrica de Madrid has just published a monograph of the famous Madrid portrait artist of French origin, Pierre Gonnord. This anthology brings together 100 of his portraits taken from 1999 to 2012. Deeply inspired by classical painters like Ribera, Rembr...

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A great gallery has an understanding of art that fuses the sacred and profane. It is like the partnership of marriage, that holds two complementary forces together. It is in this way that Debra Klomp Ching and Darren Ching – partners in both mar...

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In photography as in writing, style is key. Regardless of what one photographs, style determines artistry and how a work sets itself apart. This is precisely what is fascinating in the “giant” photographs on view at the Maison de la Chine (China House) in Paris. Most of them were...

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As a women herself, in the series “Women of my town” Bahar tries to look at the women’s lifestyle from a different way not necessarily seductive. According to the artist she grew up in a country where the role and position of women has been unclear and under pressure both...

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Blindspot Gallery presents “Equal Relationships” featuring two Mainland Chinese photography artists, 223 (aka Lin Zhi Peng) and Ren Hang. Visually, 223 and Ren share similarities in their works. Their works depict subjects such as their living environment, sex, homosexuality and b...

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The exhibition ‘Kashmir’ is just the beginning of a much greater initiative led by Emaho magazine founder Manik Katyal to bring Kashmiri photography to the world and to elevate the genre locally. “Kashmir is a place, which is known globally for its politi...

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Ever since moving here, in Florida, in 2005 I have been captivated by the variety, beauty and oddities of this state with its ever expanding population. This series is a work-in-progress—an ongoing project about Florida, its people, its landscape. 
Just south of Ft. Lauderdale, lies the ...

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