April 24th, 2012

Finish your Gerber, slip into your onesie, and doze off to this sweet lullaby off Arca’s Stretch 1 EP. When the bow breaks, the cradle will fall (and ass will be swung low).

Mercurial Metaphysics: A Retrograde Recap + a Weekly Forecast

April 17th, 2012

by Morgan Rehbock

Don’t leave home without a Hip Shrug!

Imagine the feeling of a warm hug around your hips. This spring there’s only one must-have accessory… so keep it rolling! Ninette Terhart is a fashion and fitness guru, and the inventor of the Hip Shrug. Her mission: empowering women all around the world one set of hips at a time. Buy a Hip Shrug today at hipshrug.com. Special thanks to Arielle Delfino for the tip!

April 17th, 2012

by Melissa Burns

Ask Natasha

Ask Natasha | Pathos, Perichoresis, Platony, Precautions

Q: I am already sexy/ hot… But I’ve had trouble finding love the past four years; what can I do to make myself more socially available without the Internet? PS I’m not a crazy bitch so WTF? Can I also say that I’ve attracted everything from twinks to married men but nobody who will commit. Kim, 26 A: I will let you in on a secret if you promise not to tell anyone. I, although… [read more »]

April 16th, 2012

by Natasha Stagg

Repetitive Motion Disorder Redefined

April 16th, 2012

by Camilla Wasserman

#ModelMayhem: The Art of Eric James

April 6th, 2012

by Solomon Chase

Jemsheed Powerpoint for Global Art Forum 6 (Version 1)

Translation Format #1: Powerpoint for Global Art Forum 6 at Art Dubai 2012, by Kari Altmann, at the request of Victoria Camblin PowerPoint is omnipresent. From bored boardrooms and continuing education seminars to military briefings at the Pentagon and in Kabul, with art fairs in between. Editor/art historian Victoria Camblin has curated a special series of PowerPoints, created collaboratively by contemporary artists, writers, creative entities and duos, that celebrate, critique and creatively exploit the medium’s… [read more »]

April 4th, 2012

by Nick Scholl

Material After Lazzarato: Are We Working Yet?

Last month’s hot-ticket art history conference in London was, like a number of Modernist artworks, officially ‘Untitled’. An accompanying parenthetical helpfully aided the viewer’s interpretation of the events which subsequently took place; in this case the subject matter squeamishly embraced by the robust roster of panelists was ‘Labour’ [sic]. Organized by Lauren Rotenberg and TJ Demos of University College London and Tate’s Nora Razian, by 6.30 pm on Saturday March 17 the half-day symposium had… [read more »]

April 2nd, 2012

by Kari Rittenbach

School of Global Art

Enroll here: School of Global Art (Birmingham) Heath Mill Studios, Sun 1st Apr: 2pm – 4pm School of Global Art (London), ICA, Mon 2nd Apr: 6pm – 9pm Or online here: schoolofglobalart.org School of Global Art from LuckyPDF TV on Vimeo.

April 1st, 2012

by Marco Roso

(art) VIDEO | Television Spots by Stan Douglas

(art) VIDEO, a new weekly column dedicated to presenting some of our favorite video art. In 1991 Stan Douglas created ten «Monodramas». Conceived as interventions into commercial television, these television spots interrupted the usual flow of advertising and entertainment when broadcast nightly in British Columbia for three weeks in 1992. These micronarratives mimic televisions editing techniques, but as kernels of a story they refuse to cohere. They are tales of dysfunction and dislocation, misanthropy and… [read more »]

March 30th, 2012