Gregory Minissale Duchamp’s Fountain began as a rather ordinary objectâa urinalâin a mundane and anonymous context. It was then taken out of this indifferent continuum and ‘placed’ into the realm of art where it became an ongoing event. According to…
Author: avantika
Utopia: 1969: renversement
Caroline Kelley Once before this time I visited Phrygia of the vineyards. There I looked on the Phrygian men with their swarming horses, so many of them, the people of Otreus and godlike Mygdon, whose camp was spread at that…
Good Boy: Urs Fischer at The New Museum
Craig Drennen Service Ă la françiase, silkscreen on mirrored chrome steel, 2009, (Left), Noisette, mixed mediums, 2009, (Right). All images used courtesy of The New Museum. Urs Fischerâs recent exhibition at the New Museum, called Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponte, was an…
Interview with Eric Fischl Tauromachy: Eric Fischlâs âCorrida in Rondaâ Paintings
Jennifer Park Corrida in Ronda #6, 2008, oil/linen. 84″ by 108″, image courtesy of the artist. I contacted Eric Fischl in November 2009 for an interview. His latest series of paintings, titled Corrida in Ronda, had debuted in Berlin at…
Three Shades
Joseph Ramelo In those early days, Hunter Point was a bantam uncial: shorter, rounder, and everyone called him ‘p’. Only his mother called him Peepee, but for him that was not a nickname, just an embarrassing secret. Anxious were the…
The Last Time I Saw Quinn
Elizabeth Lopeman Quinn arrived the night before last when I was making Markâs dinner. I heard the door crack open and then he was there in the light from the hallway with that black leather duffel his dad had given…
Moriah
Ian Rhodewalt The desert becomes a soup of glass: I cannot return to the woman who holds the rain and the sun. This final altar still holds me, the bloodied ram rises from his freeze of death, his newborn bellow…
Economics as if People Mattered
Micah Malone Since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption…. The less toil there is, the more time and strength is left for artistic…
Portland 2010
Lisa Radon All images courtesy Disjecta and Mark Stein Disjecta Installation view Clock wise from front – Sean Healy, Muscle Car Memory/Carcinoma; David CorbettGlass Houses I, Glass Houses II, Glass Houses III; Crystal Schenk, Holy Cow! ; West Coast Turnaround,Shelby Davis + Crystal Schenk; Bruce…
Interview with Victoria Fu
Susanne Ă. SĂŠther Clip from  The Lake House, 2006, digital video The two women in The Lake House (2007) live in opposing temporal directions. One is treated by the other as if living backwards were an affliction, and the resulting relationship is…