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RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

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Be there! View & Play! Where Creativity Meets Innovation in Contemporary Cinematography! http://raindancefestival.org/ For you miss London Live live from the Raindance Film Festival in London. Catch up: http://www.londonlive.co.uk/news/2014-09-29/raindance-festival-in-london

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Cinema at the Edge Film Festival

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Cinema at the Edge Film Festival Independent Film Festival Los Angeles, CA July 11th thru 13th, 2014 3 days of screenings, parties & artist programs that celebrates independent film making. * * Films competing in narrative feature, documentary & short film categories will be eligible for Jury and Audience awards in […]

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A postcard from Vienna

14 June 2019 - Christine Takengny

There is a thriving contemporary art scene in Vienna, bolstered by the city’s famous art academies, not-for-profit spaces, commercial galleries and world class museums.

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Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Mar ...

7 June 2019 - Caroline Douglas

The debut of a new film installation by Isaac Julien is an event, and this new nine-screen work showing in the upper floor of the Wharf Road gallery has been six years in the making.

The post Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement at Victoria Miro, London appeared first on Contemporary Art Society.

Unique cyanotype works by Do Ho Suh ...

3 June 2019 - Marcus Crofton

Household items such as the door lock that are commonly touched and used are a recurrent feature of his smaller works, distilling the idea of home into a single object.

The post Unique cyanotype works by Do Ho Suh go on sale to support the CAS appeared first on Contemporary Art Society.

Susan Hefuna: Textiles at Pi Artwor ...

31 May 2019 - Vassilios Doupas

The conceptual reframing of Hefuna’s work through textiles, at the intersection of aesthetic practice and critical investigation, marks a new territory for the artist and gives us an exhibition of sparkling intelligence.

The post Susan Hefuna: Textiles at Pi Artworks, London appeared first on Contemporary Art Society.

June 2019

30 May 2019 - Marcus Crofton

A particular must-see is at Towner Art Gallery, which is showing the major installation by Dineo Seshee Bopape that the CAS acquired at Frieze in 2017.

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Israel: Central Elections Committee ...

8 February 2019 - Barry Lerner

(Feb. 8, 2019) On January 20, 2019, the Central Elections Committee, headed by chairman Hanan Melcer, deputy president of the Supreme Court, accepted a petition filed by a private attorney against the Minister of Education, Naftali Benet, and the Ministry of Education. The petitioner requested an injunction to stop the dissemination of the Ministry’s allegedly […]

Mexico: National Electoral Institut ...

4 February 2019 - Barry Lerner

(Feb. 4, 2019) Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (Instituto Nacional Electoral, INE) filed a constitutional suit before the Supreme Court of the Nation against the reduction of 950 million pesos (nearly US$50 million) that the lower house of Congress (Cámara de Diputados, Chamber of Deputies) made to the INE’s 2019 expenditures budget and the salary reductions […]

European Union: Commission Proposes ...

11 May 2018 - Barry Lerner

(May 11, 2018) On April 26, 2018, the European Commission announced a set of measures, among them a European Union (EU)-wide Code of Practice and an independent European network of fact-checkers, to combat the spread of disinformation (fake news) online. In this context, disinformation is defined as “verifiably false or misleading information that is created, […]

Brazil: Fake News May Annul Candida ...

1 May 2018 - Barry Lerner

(May 1, 2018) On April 24, 2018, during a debate on “How Social Networks and Fake News Will Affect the Elections, Brazil and You” sponsored by a well-known Brazilian magazine, the president of the Brazilian Superior Electoral Tribunal (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, TSE) and Minister of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal, STF), Luiz […]

Indonesia: Campaign Ads Banned Outs ...

6 March 2014 - Library of Congress

(Mar. 6, 2014) Indonesia’s Election Supervisory Committee (Badan Pengawas Pemilihan Umum, often called Bawaslu), the General Elections Commission, and the Central Information Commission, together with the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission, have jointly announced a ban on advertisements run by political parties before the upcoming election season. The ban applies to both electronic and print media and […]

Cultural-Developmental Perspective: ...

6 June 2019

In this article, I present research evidence corroborating that students of Chinese descent are a high-achieving clique compared to other ethnic and cultural groups. A prominent explanation invokes cultural values highly emphasized in Chinese societies, especially those focusing on filial piety and educational achievement. However, for Chinese immigrant adolescents exposed to another cultural model and undergoing developmental changes, the motivation mechanisms underlying their academic achievement are more complex. I posit that this complexity can be understood and unraveled by contextual theories of acculturation and human development. Moreover, expanding on the cultural-developmental perspective as advocated by others, I explicate specifically how acculturative and developmental processes are intertwined to guide the individual’s internalization of cultural imperatives. To illustrate this framework, I draw insights from interviewing three Chinese immigrant adolescents in the United States. The theoretical and empirical underpinnings discussed in this paper aim to contribute knowledge to the literature by demonstrating the role of acculturation and development in Chinese immigrant students’ psychological processing of parental message concerning academic success which, in turn, contributes to their academic achievement motivation.

Institutional Resources with Notabl ...

8 March 2019

The following Centers, Institutes, Programs and Units (hereafter called “entities”), all components of colleges and universities in many countries, are important resources for teaching, research, consultation and services that have some focus on psychology and culture. The aim of this list is to provide brief information about each entity and to identify the main contact person(s) at each.

Contextual Conditions for Accultura ...

20 November 2017

In this paper we review the literature on contextual conditions related to the school, the family, and ethnic or immigrant-group membership, and their association with adjustment outcomes of adolescent immigrants in Europe. Drawing on theories in the areas of acculturation and development, the first aim was to develop a conceptual framework, which integrates acculturative and developmental processes in early adolescence and can guide the literature review in this area. The second aim was to identify the most important conditions for adolescent immigrants’ acculturation and adjustment outcomes in school and the family, and related to immigrant-group membership.

The Historical and Social-Cultural ...

16 October 2017

Moroccan laborers and their families started migrating to the Netherlands from the 1960s. We used research findings on migration and acculturation to examine the historical and social-cultural context of Moroccan-Dutch. Dutch administration at national, regional, and local level had no integration policy upon their arrival. Later, when many Moroccan-Dutch stayed longer in the Netherlands than anticipated, the Dutch administration favored a multicultural policy based on integration and maintenance of ethnic culture. This contrasted with the Moroccan policy: Moroccans abroad were told not to integrate in Dutch society but to invest in Morocco. Due to the weak outcomes and a negative attitude towards migrants, the focus in Dutch policy changed to assimilation policy. We argue that this policy reinforced the negative factors, such as exclusion, segregation, and low social capital. Compared to other non-western migrants in the Netherlands, Moroccan-Dutch score relatively high on some vital participation domains (e.g., education), but also high on risk factors (e.g., unemployment and ill-health). Studying the sociolinguistic situation and social environment related to migration contributes to a better understanding of acculturation of Moroccan-Dutch. Insights in these factors can shed light on how to understand and improve acculturation outcomes.

Upper Classes and Immorality: Ecolo ...

10 June 2017

Does power corrupt? Scholars have examined this causality with mixed results. This study uses the World Value Survey (WVS) database to examine the power-corruption link across cultures and time. The WVS inquires respondents’ justification for moral domains of purity/sanctity, authority/respect, and fairness/reciprocity. Power is operationalized as belonging to the upper-class. The study provides evidence that the upper-class respondents are significantly more justifying of breaking moral rules across world regions. But results also indicate that morality of upper classes is diverging with time from the rest of the population, narrowing in some countries, and widening in others. A discussion on the implications of these findings and the need to monitor the morality of those in power is provided.

Finger of an Angel by Panayotis Cac ...

21 April 2019 - Casey Dorman

Finger of an Angel

By Panayotis Cacoyannis

Reviewed by Casey Dorman

Panayotis Cacoyannis is a master of describing the multiple identities that make up each of us. In each of his novels, both we the reader as well as the main character, struggle with understanding who the character really is. This was most obvious in Bowl of Fruit (1907), in which Jack Faro searched for himself by assuming the identities of others and in The Madness of Grief, where the main character, sixteen-year-old Jane Hareman, was forced to absorb the revelation that her father and his paramour were not who she imagined them to be, a fact which changed her profoundly. In Finger of an Angel, Lily, the protagonist, is aware of her multiple identities. Not only is she a mother of an adult daughter and a widowed wife, she is a sexually free and adventurous sixty-year old who picks up men and allows herself to be picked up by them for gratuitous sex during which both parties conceal their identities. She struggles with keeping her own wildly erratic thoughts under control by relying on “Bella,” a sane and logical alter ego who has been with her for thirty years and speaks to her as a real person.

On a sweltering summer day while driving from a sexual encounter in a secret wood, infamous as a location for trysts, her classic Mercedes’ air conditioning goes awry, baking her in heat and bringing on a hallucinatory aura of an impending migraine. She becomes lost navigating the labyrinthine turns of a narrow road on which she is the only car. Her thoughts begin to wander out of control, only occasionally centered by conversations with the hallucinatory Bella. A fly entering her car is identified as Bella’s muse the angel Ithuriel, then as Tommy, Lily’s son who died at the age of eight. Her husband, Frank’s, voice appears and explains that Tommy’s death was truly an accident, for which he felt guilty, and his own death, by falling in front of a train after a “nudge” from Lily, who wanted him dead, was a suicide on his part. The “devil incarnate” appears in the form of Ben and Darren, two men who try to rape her while her car is stopped, but she is saved by a mysterious stag, who might be the embodiment of Ithuriel, known in Milton’s poem for revealing the devil’s identity, when it attacks the men, allowing her to flee. All the while, her daughter Gemma is calling her on her dead mobile phone and reprimanding her for her lifestyle. She tells Gemma that she is changing her life because her latest sexual encounter with “Bob” has led to true love.

Throughout Lily’s ordeal we are terrified that Lily will actually come to harm—from a car wreck, a migraine and stroke, a wasp sting (she’s allergic) or from her two attackers, if they are real. Reality is blurred, and we don’t know if she is hallucinating or having a genuine experience. She only arrives home when time begins running backward and she drives back to the turn in the road where she first got lost.

Once home, Lily is no longer alone. Bob, her new love takes her to dinner, Patrick, a former sexual partner and neighbor rescues her from his younger brothers (who resemble Ben and Darren in their behavior), Gemma announces that she’s married Noah and they both come to visit. Lily, and the reader, must straighten all the perceptions and experiences out to determine what is real and what is not as Lily faces real relationships that have to be uated. Each of the other characters reveals him or her self to not be exactly who Lily imagined them to be either.

This is a marvelous mixture of fantasy, of examination of someone’s psychological interior, and of the many sides that make up a person. For Lily, as for most of us, some of the sides of her personality are ones she doesn’t want to face and some represent efforts to escape them. Lily is complex, but more to the point of a novel, she is entertaining. The story is entertaining, with Lily expressing herself with wit in the direst of circumstances and the situations described with symbolism, artistic metaphors and humor. Cacoyannis is able to peel away the layers of his characters’ personalities in a way that few writers can. This makes his novels difficult to put down and the reader eager to pick them up and continue the fascinating story as we learn more and more of the characters’ inner secrets.

In what now is an unbroken sequence of brilliant novels, Finger of an Angel more than holds it own respected place.

Finger of an Angel is available on Amazon

Imitations of Love Poems by Dory Wi ...

31 March 2019 - Casey Dorman

Williams, Dory & Pickering, Dustin

Imitations of Love Poems

Transcendent Zero Press, 2019

“Imitations of Love Poems” (Transcendent Zero Press) is a joint production by Dory Williams and Dustin Pickering. Like most marriages, the book is an odd pairing of two quite different sensibilities. Though both poets write of love and religion, Dory speaks most often of God and Dustin of thwarted Eros. Dory excels at wonderful one-liners like “There is a border at your neck where my lips dare to travel” and “My eyes own a well, built for me, and you are the water.” Dustin takes a more circumspect approach, sprinkling his poems with references to the Classical world of thought populated by Heraclitus, Ovid, and Damocles, and speaking in the voice of Lyndon Johnson’s grandfather, a Confederate veteran who formed the Populist Party in Texas and prefigured many of the paradoxes of the Great Society; generally, his lines are longer and deeper, as in the prose poem “for M. S.”:

“When your sweet dreams linger long with afterglow, you will fly like a courtesan of rain through the mysterious sky. Ambivalence is my secret ghost—he tangles your lips with metaphor. The Magi are hopeless in their search for silence. At night, you are a shining star that knows the source of light”

Dory is the mistress of the aphorism, “If you want fame and money without real / Achievement behind it, you’re not greedy enough.” “Youth is a car sale. The salesman lies. / But we get one look at it and it's sold.” “With comedy, / you can forget your problems, and fast. / Unfortunately, it always seems it’s the tragedy that lasts!” Dustin is better at indirection, as in “Angels in the Dark”:

Something of passion is here,

listening. I cannot let it go

because it holds me in silence.

I had hopes placed in those lips

that form the most measureless magic

of your smile; I wanted to kiss them and hear them

tell me what the world imparts.

However, my heart will not stop its ache

and you cannot stop it even

if language could cry for me

as I try, again, in these words

to tell you my heart cannot leave.

Dory is quite capable of paradox, as in “For Me, For You, For the World”:

I say the words, “I Love you”, before I speak.

And I stay before I’m invited

But Dustin revels in making language itself a living, mysterious entity, as in two of his poems “For e. b.”:

i have usurped your river of thought

and looked up words in your dictionary

without your permission.

…

you kiss language, and

let its free fires fluster and smother

to bite wisdom in its fearful grip.

While Dory wavers between desire and uncertainty (“Angels cannot stop true love. / Neither can demons! / Death cannot stop true love. / But you can!”), Dustin sometimes shows his promiscuous side, engaging in dialogues not with Dory but with his glittering muses Leonard Cohen (“They Won’t Forget to Pray: verses in response to ‘So Long Marianne’”) and Amy Winehouse (“I Cried For You on the Kitchen Floor: lines from ‘You Know I Am No Good’”).

And so it goes. The Dory section and the Dustin section are like mismatched lovers, separate and independent under the same covers but deriving mutual warmth. They do not reflect upon each other, as William Blake did in his contrasting “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience.” They follow their own paths without reference to each other. But, as Dustin reflects,

This is how worlds happen

One truth turns into another.

They lean on each other,

grieving and burning

like a small atom dying in friction,

becoming a grave of itself.

Duane Vorhees, an English collegiate professor for the University of Maryland University College, is the author of "Love's Autobiography." He also publishes duanespoetree.blogspot.com, which features writers and other artists from around the world.

The Lost Heir by Rivera Sun

22 March 2019 - Casey Dorman

Rivera Sun

The Lost Heir

El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2018

The Lost Heiri is a sequel to Rivera Sun’s earlier work, The Way Between, both books featuring the young Ari Ara, meaning “not this-not that” as the heroine. This story picks up where The Way Between left off, with Ari Ara in the capital city of Mariana, being groomed as the lost heir of a marriage between the King of the Desert and the deceased Queen of Mariana.

Ari Ara is a courageous, headstrong twelve year old girl who has a magnanimous heart and is committed to justice and peaceful resolution of problems using “The Way Between,” which is a verbal and physical way of diverting an opponent’s anger and violence using a form of martial arts and mental and verbal techniques. Despite her age, Ari Ara is expert at the method, called Azar, having been taught it by the great warrior Shulen when she first arrived in the capital from her previous home in the mountains, being raised by the mysterious mountain people, the Fanten.

Not everyone in the capital wants Ari Ara to assume her rightful role as heir to the throne. A group of nobles oppose her and many others are suspicious of her. She breaks down the suspicions of the Urchin children when she befriends Everill, “Rill,’ the Queen of the Urchins. She champions the Water Workers, who are desert people who must work to gain life-giving water for their families after the water was illegally diverted years before. The House of Thorn nobles go so far as to try to assassinate Ari Ara, but she is protected by Shulen, by the young champion Emir, as well as by Brinelle, the current queen, and by a mysterious master of the haws, Malak from the desert.

Ari Ara’s will is tested as she is assaulted and insulted when The Way Between, her method of solving conflicts without violence is gradually accepted by more and more of the population and even the guards and soldiers. Her life is constantly in danger, and her fiery temper is in danger of overcoming her dedication to peace and the peaceful methods of Azar. With the help of Rill, of Malak, of Emir and of Korin, a royal friend, and Minli a crippled orphan who has become a scholar, she withstands all the challenges and, in the end, prevails.

The Lost Heiris a true adventure story, filled with action and fantasy. It takes place in a strange land, in which the population is split between different factions occupying different environments and whose suspicion and longstanding hatreds have sowed the seeds of war for years. It is also story of the wisdom of nonviolence and an inspirational tale of the ability of the good side of the human spirit to prevail over the dark side. Both young and older readers will learn about the methods of nonviolent protest and confrontation and how they can be used to oppose evil in a way that upholds the dignity of both sides on issues of difference.

Rivera Sun is a poet and her prose is poetic and full of imagery and figurative language, so that the reader is swept up in the story and his or her imagination is ignited by the author’s beautifully descriptive and poetic use of language. She is able to paint pictures with her words.

I’ve given my copy of The Way Between to my teenage niece and now that I’m finished reading The Lost Heir, I plan to give it to her also. I want her to learn the lessons the book teaches. And I know she will be swept up by the story the way she was with its predecessor and the way I was.

You may purchase The Lost Heir here.

Casey Dorman, Editor, Lost Coast Review

Desert Mornings: Poems from the Coa ...

1 January 2019 - Casey Dorman

Desert Mornings: Poems from the Coachella Valley

Lucy Wilson

Transcendent Zero Press (2018)

Reviewed by Casey Dorman

Lucy Wilson’s new collection,Desert Mornings: Poems from the Coachella Valley is about the desert, about the sun—rising, setting and warming—and about the natural world and the point of view of a human experiencing it. The lines from the opening poem prepare us for the keen observations and the sense of wonder that pervade the book.

Pre-dawn shadow world gives way

to eastern glow and birds in flight;

towering pine trees and regal palms shimmer

shimmer in reflected light.

On the surface of the swimming pool

local mountains and distant skies

repeat this morning ritual

mirrored in my eyes.

The hopefulness of nature and the repetition of each day are reflected in the renewal of spirit that they engender. The poem, “Morning Prayer” captures this beautifully. “Deep breath / clean slate / new leaf / fresh start.” But not all things in the desert are simple and benign. In “Animals or Angels?” the hawk communes with a statue of Buddha, then flies off “to catch finches for breakfast / leaving a trail of bird bones and feathers.” In “Things I Have Learned Since Moving to the Desert,” we learn that winters are cold and wet and that sandstorms, called “Haboobs” can cover the patio furniture with silt, and “Some desert insects are so big they qualify as small monsters.” The poem “Nocturne” is about the terror of nighttime, “Coyotes / red eyes aglow / drool drifting from bared teeth:” The poet tells us “I am grateful for the seven-foot wall between us.”

Wilson is attuned to the effects of light on the colors of the desert and weaves her observations into her poems: In “Meditations on a Theme: Salute to the Sun” she says, “Below my terrace / east-facing flowers / fill with light / turning yellow to gold / and pink to deepest coral.”

Desert Mornings is a collection of poetic observations of nature from a human point of view. It s a mixture of the beautiful and the frightening, as nature presents itself to us, with the beautiful winning out in the end, as in the poet’s final lesson in “Things I Have Learned Since Moving to the Desert,” that “night arrives early. / The desert night sky is heavy with stars like diamonds / on an old woman’s hands.”

The poems are about nature and its life, but they are also about the failure and dangers of humans, and several of them have the flavor of social commentary. They are a critique of “Greed at the heart of ‘progress’ / those who brush off others’ pain like dandruff” and of ”hypocrites and haters” as she describes them in the poem, “Enemies of Empathy.” In “Another Way” she wonders, “If men carried their offspring beneath their hearts /for three quarters of a year / would there be so many pointless wars, / would we let our children live in fear?” In “Living with the Past” she declares that “Using religion, nationhood, / racial and ethnic differences / to justify murder and mayhem / is the fast train to Perdition.”

This is a collection that reflects upon nature and upon human nature, finally, as in the book’s final poem, “Inner Light,” recognizing their similarity. As it affirms the beauty of the desert and the sun, it affirms, in an echo of the Beatles (not the only one in the book), called “All we Need” that “Love is the answer that everyone seeks.” The dark, sometimes ugly underside of nature and of humanity is confronted and, with regard to the latter, called out with a plea for something better. It is a hopeful book and a beautiful book. The reader will approach nature with a more observant eye after seeing the richness the author gleans from her surroundings. It’s well worth reading.

A note about the style of the presentation: The cover and design are elegant and interspersed between the poems are snippets of poetic or literary works that emphasize the points addressed by the author’s own poems. These range from Shakespeare, to Rumi to Nietzsche to Mary Shelley. All in all, Desert Mornings: Poems from the Coachella Valley is a book with the power to inspire.

The Anti-Austerity Anthology, revie ...

24 October 2018 - Casey Dorman

The Anti-Austerity Anthology

Edited by Rupert Dreyfus, Harry Whitewolf and Mike Robbins

Amazon Digital Services, 2018

Concern about rising national debts throughout Europe and the UK since the 2008-9 recession, have led to so-called “austerity programs” in many countries. The dual approaches to austerity have been to raise taxes and to lower government spending, although, in the United States then-president Obama’s response to the recession was a series of “stimulus packages,” which involved injecting government money into the economy to counteract unemployment and business failure. Almost uniformly, the austerity programs have hurt those most vulnerable in the societies in which they were implemented. Depending upon the country, government worker pay, mental health expenditures, unemployment programs, pensions, and most social programs have been cut to reduce spending. Increases in homelessness, poverty rates, unemployment and even death rates have been seen in vulnerable populations.

The Anti-Austerity Anthology, a collection of (mostly) British short stories, poems, and essays published by the Anti-Austerity Collective, which donated the proceeds from the book to food-bank charities, represents a literary response to austerity programs.

Rather than an exposé of the political and economic bases of the recession and the programs designed to combat it, which is well-covered in the Foreword by Steve Topple and an essay by Mike Robbins, the contents of the anthology are personal stories of the pain, frustration and most of all, the powerlessness felt by the victims of austerity programs.

I felt that the short stories generally worked better than the poetry in this collection, mostly because the stories seemed more personal and the poetry more political. Some of the poems were powerful, however, in their use of words, Matthew Duggan’s “Charcoal,” for instance, or a poem such as “Prole Baseline” by Ford Dagenham.

Riya Anne Polcastro’s story, “The Night Shift” is horrifyingly memorable for the realistic picture it portrays of a nurse, paralyzed by an attack from an emergency room patient and subsequently denied health and social services as her husband becomes more and more frustrated to the point of violence. Chris Harrison’s “The Bet” is a quirky tale of the inaccuracy of public opinion about those who can’t find jobs and the surprising response of one man who finds out the truth about the difficulty of finding employment. The extract from her book The Single Feather, by Ruth F. Hunt, reveals how depression and competition for the meager resources available to those with disabilities can turn one person against another and rob those most needing it from support. Mary Papastavrou’s story, “Maria Jumps,” is a frightening view of life inside a dystopian society in which only the powerful survive. A few writers are able to inject humor—black humor—into their stories: Rupert Dreyfus in “Workfarce,” for instance, or Harry Whitewolf in “Word Tax.” The fake and hilarious advertisements of Jay Spencer Green are a welcome lightness interspersed throughout the book.

It’s impossible to come away from the Anti-Austerity Anthology without being personally affected. I’ve singled out a few of the entries that struck a particularly responsive chord with me, but none of the stories or poems is weak and all convey a message.The book is a testament to the personal toll on people’s lives that a government more interested in economic matters and preservation of the wealth of the rich and powerful can have. It’s also a wonderful example of how art can be turned to the examination of social issues.

I strongly recommend the book.

The Textile Armor of Sandra de Groo ...

15 June 2019 - Andy Smith

Sandra de Groot crafts soft armor and ornate headpieces in her macramé “kNOTs” series. When the works adorn models, they are activated in a way that appears both regal and fantastical. Each piece feels independent of any one place or time. More

Nearly 90 Contribute to Thinkspace- ...

14 June 2019 - Andy Smith

Fumi Nakamura

With only the uniform confines of 12 inches x 12 inches in size, nearly 90 artists contribute to the latest edition of the group effort "LAX / SFO.” The third iteration of the Thinkspace Projects-curated program begins at Heron Arts in San Francisco on Saturday. Among the contributing artists are Alex Garant, Anthony Hurd, Baldur Helgason, Casey Weldon, Fumi Nakamura, Jeremy Fish, Jolene Lai, Logan Hicks, Pichi Avo, Wiley Wallace, Yok & Sheryo, and many, many more.More

Laurie Lee Brom, Syd Bee, Kari-Lise ...

14 June 2019 - Andy Smith

Kari-Lise Alexander

A new show at Roq La Rue Gallery features the elegant and arresting work of three painters, Laurie Lee Brom, Syd Bee, and Kari-Lise Alexander, each offering works under the show banner, “The Visions of Graces.” The show opened this week at the Seattle venue—and runs through July 7. (Bee was last featured in a Q&A here, and Alexander was last shown on our site here.) More

The Crowded Paintings of Kiatanan I ...

14 June 2019 - Andy Smith

Kiatanan Iamchan’s cacophonous paintings offer heaps of characters and unexpected elements, each assemblage acting as a growth adorning central figures. The artist says he's always had a passion for Thai fine art, in particular. Embedded in each of the paintings are cross-cultural, broad-scale reflections of an artist able to render multiple styles at once.More

The Memory-Filled Paintings of Bend ...

13 June 2019 - Andy Smith

Bendt Eyckermans offers paintings in mid-narrative, often based on an actual event or memory in his life. Yet, as our mind often does, the result of recreating those situations is both distorting and delicate. Recent paintings by the artist were showcased in a show at Carlos/Ishikawa in London. More

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