Issue # 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, Vídeo, color, 60 min 24 seconds. © 2011, Artangel, Sejla Kameric, Anri Sala, SCCA/pro.ba. (detail)from the editorT’is the season for being in transit. … Read More
MBG Issue #179: What’s Mine Is Ours
Issue # 179What’s Mine Is OursDecember 2, 2011share with a friend:Alejandro Cesarco, Picture #8, 2007, C-print, 23 1/4 x 30 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist. (detail)from the editorThere’s a tendency to embody art objects with a certain amount of agency. ‘What is that work doing,’ echoes the common phrase in crit. rooms, artists’ studios and critics’ computer screens around the … Read More
MBG Issue #178: Any Port In A Storm
Issue # 178Any Port In A StormNovember 11, 2011share with a friend:Erica Baum, Untitled (Suburban Homes), 1997, Gelatin silver print (Card Catalogue), 20 x 24 inches, Edition 6/6 + 2 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York. (detail)from the editorHere in the northeast the days are getting noticeably shorter. If an October snowstorm wasn’t enough of a reminder, … Read More
MBG Issue #177: We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat
Issue # 177We’re Gonna Need A Bigger BoatOctober 28, 2011share with a friend:mbg dollar. Image courtesy of …might be good.from the editorArts relationship to politics and social movements is, by necessity, a thorny one. How do artists and arts publications retain the potency of their doubt while simultaneously embracing the firm position social movements and politics demand? We should also … Read More
MBG Issue #176: Have Gun Will Travel
Issue # 176Have Gun Will TravelOctober 14, 2011share with a friend:Cao Fei, Shadow Life (film still), 2011, Single channel color video with sound, 10 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Lombard Freid Projects, NY. (detail)from the editorFor all practical purposes I set out with this issue looking to make a series of observations regarding what’s labeled the Texas art scene. … Read More
MBG Issue #175: Mystic Truths & Offbeat Revelations
Issue # 175Mystic Truths & Offbeat RevelationsSeptember 30, 2011share with a friend:Nick Cave, Speak Louder, 2011, Buttons, wire, bugle beads, upholstery, and mannequin, Installed: 93 1/2 X 199 X 123 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY. (detail)from the editorArts capacity to reveal a set of truths—or fictions for that matter—places it in a distinct position within … Read More
MBG Issue #174: The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Again)
Issue # 174The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Again)September 16, 2011share with a friend:Kara Hearn, TREMENDOUS (film still), 2010, Interactive performance/ installation at Recess Activities Inc. & video (trt: 1 hr 14 min). Image courtesy of the artist. (detail)from the editorLately Austin’s art community has been getting chummy with transition. Major changes, that within the next few years will dramatically change … Read More
MBG Issue #173: Into the Great Wide Open
Issue # 173Into the Great Wide OpenSeptember 2, 2011share with a friend:Shannon Ebner, Installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, July 15 – October 9, 2011. Photography by Brian Forrest. (detail)from the editorThe ‘local’ has an increasing amount of cache these days. Applied to nearly everything in our lives from produce to politics, the local is, once again, the … Read More
Just Because 11.3: Teruko Nimura
Just Because 11.3Spaces BetweenTeruko NimuraJuly 10th – August 7th, 2011share with a friend:Image courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Maia AssafProject DetailsOverviewAbout the ArtistAs an artist, Teruko Nimura is interested in the commonalities among human experiences and the ways that we use symbols and rituals to create collective memory. Spaces Between is an investigation of community, identity and spiritual practices through the … Read More
MBG Issue #172: Zeros and Ones, Questions and Commas
Issue # 172Zeros and Ones, Questions and CommasJune 24, 2011share with a friend:“The question is whether criticism today is a statement about one’s beliefs at all. Cultural production is based on memory: we have known that since Plato. And today, I’d say, we have lost our memories, and memory has been replaced by Google. Instead of memorizing, we are Googling.” -Boris … Read More