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MBG Issue #200: A Party To End All Parties
...might be good, 2012Issue # 200A Party To End All PartiesNovember 9, 2012share with a friend:Steve McQueen, Current, 1999. Photo courtesy of the artist; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York /Paris; and Thomas Dane Gallery, Londonfrom the editorSince 2003 this s...
MBG Issue #199: Technicolor From Coast To Coast
...might be good, 2012Issue # 199Technicolor From Coast To CoastOctober 26, 2012share with a friend:Wade Guyton, U Sculpture (v. 6), 2007. Mirrored stainless steel 24 x 22 x 53 ½ in. (61.5 x 55.9 x 136.1 cm). Artist proof, Edition of 3, 1 AP. Collection of...
MBG Issue #198: Power Play
...might be good, 2012Issue # 198Power PlayOctober 12, 2012share with a friend:Emily Roysdon. Installation view of Pause, Pose, Discompose. Photo Credit: Sandy Carsonfrom the editorAnother art fair is on the horizon here in Houston as well as on the other sid...
MBG Issue #197: Clues By The Thousands
...might be good, 2012Issue # 197Clues By The ThousandsSeptember 28, 2012share with a friend:“I Have Seen the Future” button, 1940. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center. The pin is currently on display...
MBG Issue #196: Hearty Welcomes and Humble Pleas
...might be good, 2012Issue # 196Hearty Welcomes and Humble PleasSeptember 11, 2012share with a friend:Robert Kinmont, 127 Willow Forks (This is Who I Am), 2010, Willow, pine, birch plywood and maple, 84 x 153 x 45 inches. Courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New...
MBG Issue #195: Hold the Phones!
...might be good, 2012Issue # 195Hold the Phones!July 25, 2012share with a friend:Liz Glynn, III, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. Photo: Calvin Lee. from the editorEveryone deserves a little break now and again. We here at ......
MBG Issue #194: Tacks, Tape and a Level
...might be good, 2012Issue # 194Tacks, Tape and a LevelJuly 12, 2012share with a friend:Liam Gillick, From 199A to 199B. Image courtesy of the artist.from the editorNear the end of June I attended two openings at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studie...
MBG Issue #193: Hotter Than Two Cats Fighting In A Wool Sock
...might be good, 2012Issue # 193Hotter Than Two Cats Fighting In A Wool SockJune 28, 2012share with a friend:Michael Jones McKean, The Rainbow: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms. Image courtesy of the artist.from the editorSummer is here....
MBG Issue #192: The Shoe Fits!
...might be good, 2012Issue # 192The Shoe Fits!June 14, 2012share with a friend:Kevin Cooley, Skyward (video still), 2012, 9 min 45 sec HD Video Installation, Copyright Kevin Cooley. Courtesy of Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX.from the editorAnother critica...
MBG Issue #191: Tickets, Please
...might be good, 2012Issue # 191Tickets, PleaseMay 29, 2012share with a friend:Joachim Koester, To navigate in a genuine way, into the unknown necessitates an attitude of daring, but not one of recklessness (movements generated from the Magical Passes of Ca...
MBG Issue #190: My Parrot Can Talk, Can Your Honor Student Fly?
...might be good, 2012Issue # 190My Parrot Can Talk, Can Your Honor Student Fly?May 16, 2012share with a friend:Installation view of the Repair Station (with Sam Ratanarat’s hands) in SPACE PROGRAM: MARS by Tom Sachs at Park Avenue Armory. SPACE PROGRA...
MBG Issue #189: Beer Here! Get Your Beer Here!
...might be good, 2012Issue # 189Beer Here! Get Your Beer Here!May 4, 2012share with a friend:Daniel Firman, Butterfly, 2007-2010, Galerie Perrotin, Frieze Art Fair 2010 in Regent’s Park, London. Photo by Linda Nylind for Frieze.from the editorUnder no circ...
MBG Issue #188: The Return Of The Really Really Realest Real
...might be good, 2012Issue # 188The Return Of The Really Really Realest RealApril 20, 2012share with a friend:Original postcard image by Mike Monteiro.from the editorAfter attending a 35mm screening of Canadian-filmmaker David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (19...
MBG Issue #187: Two Helpings Of The Future, Yes Please
...might be good, 2012Issue # 187Two Helpings Of The Future, Yes PleaseApril 6, 2012share with a friend:Andy Coolquitt, chair w/paintings, Lisa Cooley, March 30 - May 6, 2012. Photo: Cary Whittier.from the editorWhen I sat down on Sunday evening to watch Mor...
MBG Issue #186: Paging Sun Ra, Place Is The Space
...might be good, 2012Issue # 186Paging Sun Ra, Place Is The SpaceMarch 23, 2012share with a friend:Gabriel Kuri, rr, 2012, Steel, concrete, lacquer paint, 6 ¼ x 78 ¾ x 47 ¼ inches. © the artist. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.from the editorAs I find my...
MBG Issue #185: Self-Bursting Buckyball
...might be good, 2012Issue # 185Self-Bursting BuckyballMarch 9, 2012share with a friend:Desert Dome at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo. Image courtesy Henry Doorly Zoo.from the editorWhen I stepped away from teaching and the trappings of academia two years ago, I...
MBG Issue #184: Hall of Mirrors
...might be good, 2012Issue # 184Hall of MirrorsFebruary 24, 2012share with a friend:Yael Bartana, 22. The Missing Negatives of the Sonnenfeld Collection, 2008, Black and white photograph, 15 3/8 x 23 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.from the editorWe tal...
MBG Issue #183: If This Is An Avalanche Make Me A Skier
...might be good, 2012Issue # 183If This Is An Avalanche Make Me A SkierFebruary 10, 2012share with a friend:Sherrie Levine, Crystal Skull, 2010, Cast Glass, 5 1/2 x 7 x 4 1/2 inches, ©Sherrie Levine. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.from the editorMu...
MBG Issue #182: Productive Confusion
...might be good, 2012Issue # 182Productive ConfusionJanuary 27, 2012share with a friend:Michael Jones McKean, The Gilded Scab. Courtesy of the artist and PARISIAN LAUNDRY. Photo credit: Guy L’Hereux. (detail)from the editorTime and space; two characteristics ...
MBG Issue #181: Flux Capacitors Are So 1985
...might be good, 2012Issue # 181Flux Capacitors Are So 1985January 13, 2012share with a friend:Installation view from “Identity,” Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. (detail)from the editorWelcome to the future! The beginning of any new year is a...
MBG Issue #180: Soft Packed For Infinity
...might be good, 2011Issue # 180Soft Packed For InfinityDecember 16, 2011share with a friend:Šejla Kamerić, 1395 Days Without Red: A film by Šejla Kamerić, From a project by Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala in collaboration with Ari Benjamin Meyers, 2011, V...