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ART OF TWO GERMANYS/COLD WAR CULTURES' AT LACMA

by Christopher Knight



In the 1980s, art being made in Los Angeles and Germany simultaneously emerged into prominence. The event signaled a dramatic change - the beginning of a new internationalism in a cultural conversation that, for a generation, had largely been restricted to New York. Then, when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, a cultural barrier definitively fell.

So it's more than appropriate that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, i… Continuar

FASHION IS EVERYWHERE

by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy



Dazzlingly inventive, hugely artificial and hyper-sophisticated fashion images by 40 photographers are plastered over the walls, floor to ceiling, in "Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now," the new exhibition filling the ground-floor galleries of the International Center of Photography. In a notably budget-conscious approach, curators Carol Squiers and Vince Aletti have used magazine tear-sheets rather than original prints (though the show d… Continuar

ALTERMODERN MANIFESTO

POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD

A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation - understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture

Increased communication, travel and migration are affecting the way we live

Our daily lives consist of journeys in a chaotic and teeming universe

Multiculturalism and identity is being overtaken by creolisation: Artists are now starting from a globalised state of culture

This new universalism is… Continuar

ENIGMA VARIATIONS: THE CURIOUS WORLD OF RONI HORN

By Jeanette Winterson

Saturday, 31 January 2009



With its mirror images, its susceptibility to light, its insistence on movement, Roni Horn's work is obsessed with water. By returning us to the element that makes up most of the world, the artist - whose work is celebrated next month in a major retrospective at London's Tate Modern - returns us to life.

Roni Horn, who was born in New York in 1955, tells a story about coming to London in 1998… Continuar

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER

Liz Jobey continues her series on photography books with Michael Fried's rigorous analysis of contemporary art photography and its relationship with its audience

Friday 16 January 2009



For anybody interested in the changing nature of photography over the last 30 years, Michael Fried's Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before is an important book. The reputation of its author - one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-centu… Continuar