Sperm Weaver at Gallery Maskara by Shine Sivan and Our Breath Concrete at Volte Gallery by Qusai Kathawala
By Deblina Chakrabarty
Perhaps its coincidence that I should see Sperm Weaver and Our Breath Concrete one after the other on the same afternoon. Ostensibly they couldn’t be more thematically apart. Sperm Weaver is bold and visceral, questioning and [...]

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Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty The exhibition of recent works by this Swiss-born sculptor at the New Museum includes “Service à la Française,” a 51-piece installation on the second floor. 
By ROBERTA SMITH
Published: October 29, 2009
The sculptor Urs Fischer is hot, young and European. When it comes to installation art, he is [...]

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Anish Kapoor Memory Guggenheim Museum
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By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: October 22, 2009
PHILADELPHIA — Two stories are well known about the Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky. One is that he came to a terrible end, a suicide in his mid-40s, after a hammering series of catastrophes. The other is that he took a very long time — around 20 years, until he was [...]

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T. V. Santhosh, Bitter Lessons II, 2009, oil on canvas, 48 x 72″.
Jean Baudrillard wrote three articles between January and March of 1991, arguing that the first Gulf War “did not take place.” He noted that the new era of war fighting—its prosecution and our perceptions of it—was so entangled with information and communication technology [...]

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Mumbai galleries pick their best
Francis H D’Sa / DNATuesday, August 18
Mumbai: The second edition of India’s Modern and Contemporary Art Fair at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi from August 19-22 promises to be much larger in scale and scope, than its predecessor.
Here, one gets to see the most diverse range of modern and contemporary paintings, [...]

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By MELIK KAYLAN
New York
The heart sinks when confronted with yet another cultural event—especially one involving Muslim culture—that promises to “break down stereotypes” or “establish dialogue” or “reframe the discourse.” Usually such events assume that Western or American perceptions need correcting, and that the problem lies in perceptions alone. It’s not that the material on offer [...]

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Linda Yablonsky writes about the current edition of the Athens Biennale which runs until October 4th 2009. She takes us through the location, comparing it to the Acropolis Museum and finding the former to be a ‘very poor cousin’ of the later. Regardless the Biennale, which showcased 6 separate curated exhibitions isn’t wriiten off altogether [...]

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