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Gaming, Dreaming, & the City of the Everyday
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The art game Every day the same dream is a casual fantasia on the quotidian dialectic of work and reverie. It’s a mere bagatelle, tossed together in six days for the monthly competition sponsored by […]
Read This PostGERD ARNTZ: TYPE & ISOTYPE
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BORN IN 1900, German artist Gerd Arntz designed a pattern language for life in the twentieth century. His prints and designs were intended to further the purposes of a socialist world even as they dreamt […]
Read This PostTHOMAS DOYLE: Crucibles of Hazard
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The art of Thomas Doyle is at once inviting and unsettling. Miniature tableaux under glass, his pieces have the quirky, lilliputian charm of the model railroad, the dollhouse, and the museum diorama. But upon further […]
Read This PostThe Highbrow Kite
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Thomas Horvath’s kites are like every kite you’ve ever seen, and like no kite you’ve ever seen. They’re what kites dream of when they lie sleeping in a tangle of string at the bottom of […]
Read This PostThe Upset: Hilo for Your Coffee Table
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Much contemporary art prides itself on posing questions. But too often the questions are rehearsed, and the answers prompt only tepid flickers of sensation. Works that engage the imagination in a total fashion — that […]
Read This PostAbject Dreaming: The Art of Herbert Pfostl and Roberto Kusterle
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Herbert Pfostl is an artist we’d like to know more about. His work combines found images and text with figural notions of animals and herbs, half-finished rubbings, and archetypal blots and smudges. Pfostl’s drawings and […]
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