Visual Art

At ISSUE last night

Dafna Naphtali opened the show by sending clicks around ISSUE‘s in-house installation of  15 speakers installed by Stephan Moore.  She used a wii-mote, pointing at her laptop screen and clicking, and the sounds swirled around our heads, sometimes faster, sometimes slower.  It was a good introduction to what came next, […]

Tim Burton at the MoMA

Last week I went to the Tim Burton exhibition at the MoMA. Held in a surprisingly small space, the exhibition displays 800+ images…

Kandinsky and his groups

Went last Saturday to see the Kandinsky exhibit at the Guggenheim (reviewed here in the NY Times), there through 1/13/2010.  Kandinsky is one of Scott Draves’ favorite artists and influences.  The large pieces really looked terrific in the Spiral setting of the Guggenheim, where you could see them en masse […]

Glow 2009 and the Kunstlicht in de Kunst

Just missed what looks like an incredibly cool festival in the Netherlands called “Glow”, the forum of light in art and architecture, apparently in its 4th year. Curated by Bettina Pelz and Tom Groll, during Glow “the city center of Eindhoven turns again into a forum of interventions, installations, performances […]