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www.art-mine.com, Original fine art online.

artforum.com

paris : : matthew rose

Emily Harvey: a life in fluxus.

Billy Name once said of Ray Johnson that he "wasn't a person, he was a collage, a sculpture." Richard Lippold described Johnson as "indifferent to all of the machinations of life, a totally honest man, incorruptible, and in this sense, unmanageable."

Painting is either back, or, never left the building. A discussion around the state of art today.

Did Picabia prefigure our current concern over the human-technology interface?

Michael Mandiberg is selling everything, and you can buy it. The computer programmer and artist has combined Duchamp and eBay in a 21st Century art project. Everything is art, everything is for sale, everything...

Strange money: Peggy Preheim makes a photorealist, obsessive buck.

"This coming together between video, photography and paint involves the environment and myself. The video footage acts like a paintbrush" says Valentina Loi.

MADE IN JAPAN: KILLER CUTENESS INVADES PARIS

Jonathan Horowitz's name my cat - an interactive low-medium technology web enabled art show reviewed.

Jean-Noel Laszlo 's installation in the Toulon-Liberté post office proves that the concept of liberty is still controversial.

Or, a letter from Paris, from Basel. Art 32 Basel reviewed.

Duct tape, plastic and tin foil questions art's commodification in a street work by Swiss artist thomas hirschorn, in association with the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

Exacting images of people in the celebrated and banal act of wearing clothes. Could this be you? James Startt focuses on Uniforms.

Radioactive spring: Sarah de Teliga brings vibrancy to a graveyard of Impressionists.

Tania Mouraud: Martin Luther King speeches, nails and brass rings, violins, accordions, and computer generated sounds: an ode to music.

Swept off my feet: Keith Donovan in poetic frame on the subject of
Jerome Borel's
Paris inspired paintings.

Coke Wisdom O'Neal reports that America is holding vast quantities of Codeine, Tiger Balm, Tylenol, Preparation H, Chanel No. 5, and Vaseline. And he should know...

Fear and painting in America: the painter Shanoor flags plurality and multiculturalism.

Jeremy Stigter's Japanese landscapes: an empire of emptiness.

The lonely contents of a strange world are undeniably ours: Caterina Verde in Eindhoven.

On a sun-bleached rooftop a stone’s throw from the Villa Borghese in Rome, romantic minimalist Livia Signorini unfurls a “quilt” made of Horvath candy wrappers.

"...Images of the Towers being struck and then falling in a plume of smoke. These contrast with images of Heaven. And isn't Heaven what this struggle is all about? One illusion of Heaven against other illusions of Heaven. Fought to the death?"

part 1 It all began with German artist Thomas Ruff's recent exhibit at Galerie Nelson in Paris. Ruff used deliberately blurred imagery taken from porn sites. That blossomed into a discussion about art, Paris, porn and the web. No one realised how big the subject was going to be. So big, we've had to serialise the article.

part 2
Looks at art and porn in the context of still imagery and film, and reviews the response from officialdom.

part 3 asks: is sex in art cultural satisfaction?

moscow : : john held jr.

They sing, "Why We Stamp Our
Faces," to commemorate the Russian Futurists fondness for painted faces on the streets of Moscow. Held and friends then rubber stamp their own faces and confront a bemused public whilst shopping (for bread, caviar and bologna): mail art hits Moscow.

letter from siberia : : vladimir gavrikov

rancho vs desert examines the differences between art worlds in Siberia and the West. In Russia "artists are like wild antelopes in the desert. They do not have abundant food but they may run in every direction."

Only in Russia?... the Union of Artists closed it's art shop and leased the building to a telephone company. What could possibly justify that?

New curatorial approaches bring controversy and the removal of work - Warhol, Hitler, and a story in which a man who is unsatisfied with the size of his penis. Has Russian art gone bananas, or has it just entered the new millennium?

Originals, "dubbing", artists copying their own work to improve sales - is it moral? In Russia, it is not illegal but is it right?

The Territorial Division of the Russian Union of Artists, ethics and morality in the post Soviet Union art world: who controls the Russian art world?

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How can sculpture cope with spatial and temporal discontinuities, as outlined by current ideas around nonlinearity? Come in may offer solutions.

Art and chaos theory? Not in the postmodern, Hegel myths-of-science critiqued philosophical art context we all supposedly inhabit. What then if a link between nonlinear theorist Henri Poincare and artist Marcel Duchamp was found, or worse, if fractals were discovered in Jackson Pollock's paintings? Links to these discussions are found here...

a virus for art only: Joseph Nechvatal's Computer Virus Project 2.0 infects art.

Post 9/11, airport security personnel often ask camera-toting travellers to take a photo, to prove their camera is not a gun. Isabelle Devos is collecting these photographs for a project.

Quasi-neutral, visually anthropological documentary manisfested at Manifesta and Documenta

What is happening to culture today? Where are we going collectively, and as individual nations and cultures? There is an increasing perception that culture is hybridising.

New media links. Interesting art websites around the world. Postmodernism, digital art and moving image media.

Interactive and viewer particpation art in Tokyo.

Just when you might have thought the limelight was beginning to dim on 20th century French philosophers, along come Deleuze and Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari's writing is being discussed by an increasing number of writers. In particular, their concept of rhizome has proved helpful to Western commentators in understanding the internet. Rather than setting out to confuse, Deleuze and Guattari aimed to set philosophy free from burdensome intellectual weight. This is laudable, though it has to be said that their multi-concept writing can be difficult to understand. An introduction and helpful links are found here

nonlinearity feature
Nonlinear systems - an introduction. Some principles of nonlinear creative practice are here. The Solar Circuit collaboration project is discussed on this page. For a page of preliminary research into a nonlinear collaboration, focussed on Tasmania and Maria Island, Australia, follow this link. For documentation of the work exhibited in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery click here.

new york

matthew rose
10,000 bananas can't be wrong Douglas Fishbone wild in the New York jungle.

matt freedman
'A tour de force of imaginative suppleness' - Himmelfarb reviewed.

matthew rose
A sunny massacre of innocence: James Meyer's ironic pentameter.

meaghan kent
Girl on girl: Maureen Cavanaugh at 31 Grand, NYC.

The artworld's Big, dislocation and five video screens to Nowhere: a report from New York.

eric gelber
William Kentridge restrospective at the New Museum New York reviewed.

ian summers
In american skin, Andrew Krasnow has transformed the real skin of white Americans into works that examine the issues of dehumanization, iconography and taboo.

Aging generation X-er's, ex flower children who became yuppies, the rise and rise of photography - Summers asks: how did it happen?