Artist Christo displays new work in Washington D.C.
Reknowned artist Christo proudly displayed his latest project today, which consists of wrapping President Bush and Vice-President Cheney in a gigantic 100 foot American flag bound by strong twine. "Mrrf mm outa here" was Cheney's faintly heard comment, while President Bush was heard to say "Ymmmeah, what he said". Gazing upon his work, Christo stated, "This is my visual interpretation of American imperialism, er, um, I mean freedom, and I am quite satisfied with it". The two leaders will be on display on the White House lawn until sometime after Election Day.
N3KROZOFT MORD
The N3KROZOFT MORD group is doing a tour in the Balkan region during the month of april 2004. "N3KROZOFT MORD is a research project focussing on application areas such as bioinformatics, multimedia/computer vision, pattern analysis and neural networks. N3KROZOFT MORD is devoted to create temporary zones of perceptual instability, confronting the viewers/users with an audio-visual situation of dramatic fragility - an intimate interaction between words, sound, flesh and binary computations."
Entre Chien et Loup
An exhibition by Anri Sala, Entre Chien et Loup / When the Night Calls it a Day runs March 25-May 16 at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris /ARC au Convent des Cordeliers. It's an exhibition of 5 recent video installations, strong work and definitely worth seeing; the show is going to Hamburg's Deichtorhallen afterwards, May 13-August 1. There's an illustrated catalogue; two discussion events with Anri Sala are planned: April 27 with Carsten Hoeller, May 4 with Bruno Latour.
Multitude
The review 'Multitude' has a new issue out, No. 15: Art Contemporain: la Recherche du Dehors, which contains illustrated articles about many recent politically engaged art projects - a great read for catching up with the debate about contemporary art practices in touch with reality.
Espace Odyssée
The Musée de la Musique, near La Villette, is showing an exhibition entitled 'Espace Odyssée' that deals with the expansion and transgression of concepts of space in music since 1950; the show which runs until September 5 includes very interesting audio and video material from the recent history of music, from Xenakis and Stockhausen (performing in the 1970 World Expo pavillion in Japan), through a rare video of a live performance by Sun Ra (from Phill Niblock's collection) to Riochi Ikeda's sound pieces.
Lumiere!
Until the coming weekend, the EXIT festival will be running in Creteil, in the south of Paris; the show with the theme 'Lumiere!/Light!' was curated by Richard Castelli and includes a number of interesting kinetic and light installations, notably several works by the Swedish artist Christian Partos, Erwin Redl's Matrix II, and Tania Ruiz' 'Plaza II'. Granular Synthesis are performing on Friday and Saturday, and the festival finishes with a long 'Nuit Electro'.
Open Source City
OPEN SOURCE CITY is a 10 days event bringing artists, cartographers, architects, programmers, activists, occultists, psychogeographers, autonomous astronauts, researchers, doctors, sociologists and urbanists together to draw an open source map of the city of Strasbourg. The festival will focus on historical maps, psychogeography, politics and religion; Europe institutions and local specificities; tactical media and cyberguerillas' techniques, locative tools and wifi maps; urbanism and city politics. The festival will finish on Saturday May 15, with presentations, panels and music.
Cartoonist draws on father's struggles
As a kid, his name had been Gregory Gallant. A large part of his childhood entertainment centred on his father John's stories of growing up in Prince Edward Island. A born storyteller, at the time his father's stories felt to Gallant like tales of grand adventure. Tomorrow, Gallant, now a successful cartoonist and illustrator better known as Seth, arrives at The Rivoli where he'll launch the book he created from his father's stories, Bannock, Beans And Black Tea.
Neo-Nazi admits bombing after seeing The Passion
A Norwegian man trying to put his neo-Nazi past behind him confessed to bombing a youth group's headquarters in the 1990s, saying he admitted his guilt after seeing The Passion of the Christ.
AGO forges on with Gehry
The Art Gallery of Ontario and architect Frank Gehry are working on design changes to preserve more of the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum atrium. 'Frank and I have been talking about refining details before we get locked into a final design,' Matthew Teitelbaum, the gallery's CEO, said yesterday. Martin Knelman reports.
Music swappers win court victory
The recording industry has suffered a major blow in its global campaign against online music piracy. A federal judge ruled yesterday that making songs available for sharing over the Internet is not illegal under Canadian copyright law because the user isn't actively distributing music or advertising its availability.
Dust, fluff and Cilla
The winner of the first £40,000 Artes Mundi prize is a message written in dust. But, says Martin Gayford, that's mainstream art compared with the carpet-fluff figures and Cilla Black impersonators in the Beck's Futures show.
The Courtauld gallery's doing it, MoMA's doing it - even the nearly new Tate Modern is doing it. Why? Jonathan Jones examines the confused logic behind the 'rehang'.
Fallen woman restored as 36th Vermeer
Dutch master's disputed work is declared genuine by experts, and will be auctioned in July for an estimated £3m.
Two people in a box reading out a long list of dates. What do passers-by make of On Kawara's Reading One Million Years?
As her entry for this year's Beck's Futures award, the Dutch artist Nicoline van Harskamp has employed 19 security guards to patrol the ICA as human exhibits.
A trainspotter and a shipping enthusiast are the unlikely stars of this year's Beck's Futures show. Adrian Searle reports.
Blanket refusal
How Tracey Emin's school quilt project turned sour.
