alternative(m)emory Dear O, I gathered yellow water in my fists. I placed my hand inside the middle of the earth, onto the other shore… Dear O, I wore my green dress and my red hair and obsessively played the piano… Dear O, I read Cartarescu and did Theatre studies. I filled the […]
ART OPENINGS: Nancy Staub Laughlin & Udomsak Krisanamis
NANCY STAUB LAUGHLIN @ NOHO GALLERY January 9-February 17, 2007 Nancy Staub’s work is technically impressive and uses a unique process for layering imagery. I found her process to be more interesting than the work itself because I had a difficult time relating to her subject matter and color palette. While I am generally fascinated […]
HORSE the Band – The Mechanical Hand
At first glance, this album (and some may even say HORSE themselves) may be looked upon as farcical. Between Nintendo character references (such as ‘Birdo’, the first track, and ‘Cutsman’ on their last album, R. Borlax), the video game sound effect style of the keyboards, and the often comical lyrics, it’s easy to see why […]
Alessandro Piangiamore
Galleria Paolo Bonzano – Rome November 16 – 20, 2006 For the occasion of his first solo gallery exhibition, Alessandro Piangiamore created his own wall text that announced the title of the show: Sfidando la verità con la gravità (Challenging truth through gravity). But rather than a conventional typeface neatly adhering to the wall, the […]
Biological Control May Beget Exotic Invaders
It’s not easy to be good. You thought you’d do the responsible thing and buy some ladybugs (technically beetles and not ture bugs at all, known as ladybirds in the UK) at the store to keep your roses clean instead of spraying poison. Little did you realize, you could be harming your local eco-system and […]
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