In Hundt and Newhagen the fighting spirit of Dada is alive and well. Their work points to the extant power of irrationality.
Archives for March 2011
A ‘High Society’ Conversation with Robyn Twomey
Photojournalist Robyn Twomey covered the medical marijuana industry. The patients, she found, were the real story.
Hasan Elahi @ Intersection 5M
Hasan Elahi passed nine lie detector tests. But the FBI still thought he might be a terrorist. So the Bureau asked him to stay in touch. He complied. The artist filled their inbox with a torrent of useless information.
Abstraction: Then and Now @ Berkeley Art Museum
Does abstraction have a viable “third path,” between the poles of Impressionist “opticality” and Symbolist introspection? Mark Van Proyen reports.
Gottfried Helnwein @ The Crocker Art Museum
Gottfried Helnwein’s paintings and photographs tackle the persistence of evil and the cruelties perpetrated by humans against each other.
Enrique Chagoya @ di Rosa Preserve
In cross-cultural mash-ups, where indigenous icons return to a Disney-fied America, and art historical figures dance through cartoon vistas, Chagoya explores a terrain where all cultures meet and mix.