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| EIKON # 82In this issue, Multimedia artist DOUG AITKEN pursues different paths of communication and reverses the roles of addresser and addressee by having the artwork answer the beholder. The permanent installation Mirror, installed on the façade of Seattle Art Museum in late March this year, responds like a kaleidoscope and a “living system,” as Aitken puts it, to passersby, traffic, and weather conditions...More | |
 | FRIEZE New York 2013Cofounded by Matta-Clark with artist Carol Goodden in 1971, FOOD was a seminal piece of New York art. It occupied the corner of Prince and Wooster Streets, neighboring 112 Greene Street, the influential and prototypical art space extant today as the gallery White Columns. It’s easiest to describe FOOD as a restaurant run by artists, yet that definition elides the project’s many functions...More |
| Fraicheur printanière sur ArtParis Art fairLongtemps moquée voire rabaissée au rang "des refusés" de la Fiac, parfois à juste titre, Art Paris Art Fair semble avoir trouvé avec sa nouvelle direction le juste ton et pourrait bien prochainement compté dans le marathon des foires qui en quelques mois, emmènent les collectionneurs du monde entier de New York à Bâle en passant par Dubai...More |  |
Helen Levitt always in our heart
 | Armory Show 2013This year’s Armory Focus, the section of the Armory Show that brings together galleries from a specific region of the world, will feature 17 galleries from this year’s theme region, the United States. And while most of those are feisty upstarts, in the Focus tradition, there will be one heavyweight participant: Gagosian Gallery...More |
| Armory Art Week in New YorkOpening Day at Independent: Dealers Bring Big Ambitious Works. The four-year-old Chelsea art fair conceived by Elizabeth Dee and Darren Flook, and a steady stream of stiletto heels (along with some more practical footwear) are ascending and descending the treacherously steep staircases of 548 W. 22nd Street...More |  |
 | EIKON # 81The series Gestern (Eine Begegnung mit Familie D). (Yesterday [A Meeting with Family D.]) by ANASTASIA KHOROSHILOVA is also not an objective documentation. When the artist shows migrants living illegally in Russia in their everyday surroundings, she presents them in the form of classical portrait photography, subverting traditional family hierarchies in her arrangement of the figures...More |
| Memorandum, d'Illés SarkantyuDans une multitude de chemises colorées, Lucien Hervé a tout au long de sa carrière, garder des tirages de lectures, de tests, des planches contacts. Sur ces pochettes, il dessinait, collait, découpait des signes compris de lui seul qu'Illés Sarkantyu décrypte, analyse, explore...More |  |
| NikolaÏ Bakharev, a social artist?Nikolay Bakharev’s emotive and controversial images are important social documents that enlighten and inform the viewer. The subjects – freed from oppression by this oppurtinity to express grace and fragility, desire and control, honour and sincerity – are merely a means of expression for the photographer: every image gives us an enhanced view of the ‘bigger picture’...More |
| Image ExplosionDavid Joselit theorizes about the function of art in the global age of abstracted value and Art Basel: Should images flow freely like currencies, anywhere the market will take them, or should this neoliberal freedom be tempered by the values of cultural identity whose most extreme expression is fundamentalist?More |  |