Articles By: SMAC

The New York Film Festival – Lebanon / Inferno / Room and a Half

The New York Film Festival – Lebanon / Inferno / Room and a Half

Inferno by Henri-Georges Clouzot is film that was never finished. It was started in 1964 and abandoned. Decades later it premieres at the New York Film Festival as a tale of a filmmaker in the search... 

Chinatown Film Project at Apple Store

Chinatown Film Project at Apple Store

Tuesday, September 29 Documentary and experimental filmmakers Jem Cohen and Shelly Silver will be present for a discussion of their work in the Chinatown Film Project. Night Scene, New York by Jem Cohen... 

GUGGENHEIM AND GOOGLE INVITE YOU TO VOTE FOR WINNER OF ONLINE DESIGN COMPETITION

GUGGENHEIM AND GOOGLE INVITE YOU TO VOTE FOR WINNER OF ONLINE DESIGN COMPETITION

Virtual Structures by Ten Finalists of Design It: Shelter Competition On View at Guggenheim.org/vote Beginning September 7, 2009, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google invite the public to vote... 

Jean-Hubert Martin on His Upcoming Moscow Biennale (Interview)

Jean-Hubert Martin on His Upcoming Moscow Biennale (Interview)

Art Margins published an interview with Jean-Hubert Martin, curator of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art called “Against Exclusion.” “Art always needs a sort of consensus, I mean... 

Andrea Fraser “From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique”

Andrea Fraser “From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique”

Andrea Fraser talks about “institutional critique,” an approach to art making that emerged out of conceptual art in the late 1960s and has been associated with the work of Hans Haacke, Daniel... 

Lane Relyea: Bricoluer as Entreprenuer.

Lane Relyea: Bricoluer as Entreprenuer.

A consideration of the New Museum’s show “Unmonumental” and the model of the “21st century object” it proposes, a well-networked piece of sculpture too internally diverse... 

Teddy Cruz: 60 Linear Miles of Trans-Border Conflict

Teddy Cruz: 60 Linear Miles of Trans-Border Conflict

The international border between the US and Mexico at the San Diego / Tijuana checkpoint is the most trafficked in the world. Approximately sixty million people cross annually, moving untold amounts of... 

HOME MADE

HOME MADE

Is it possible to create an eco-friendly label? Lika Volkova, the designer behind SANS clothing line says no. The result of a new clothing line is, of course, more clothing. When all is said and done,...