'(No) Improvisation' by Farshid Maleki
For the Persian artist Farshid Maleki the faculties of imagination and emotion are more important than that of mere sight. At first glance the drawings seem like scribbles -- one sees hundreds of lines and colours of magic markers shaping - in an apparent chaos - characters that are...

'Keywords School' by Xu Tan
During the 'Keywords School' at La Biennale di Venezia the artist, who insists on a lifestyle as 'outcast' to maintain sensitivity to the changes in social life/culture, re-investigates the meanings of words together with participants. In the new space the meanings of the keywords are further transformed...

Accessories and Artefacts: Women's Lives in Paris 1940–1944
The Parisian Mémorial-Musée exhibits 300 fashion items, especially accessories, from the years of occupation. During wartimes the restrictions turned fashion designers and women into experts in the art and craft of recycling and substitution...

Good Signs - Bad Signs
"...parallels between the rhythm and repetition of songs and typical regional knitting patterns...," curator Eva Kreissl invites the visitor to experience the meaning of symbols in game situations such as a symbols quiz, an orientation terrain game, or a sound-effects test at the Folklife and Folk Art Museum in Graz...

Point d'ironie is a publication directed by artists like Yoko Ono, Rosemarie Trockel, author Marlene Streeruwitz... which is circulating free of charge around the world. The magazine was established in 1997 by French fashion designer agnès b. in cooperation with ...

Frank Thiel
Curtains, folds and the political system of a society. German artist Frank Thiel presents new large-scale color photographs showing curtains made of fabrics arranged in folds at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. The photographer is addressing the recent history of Berlin...

Workshop Missoni
You are invited to enter the typical Italian way of making fashion, which begins at the loom: an installation, capturing the sounds and noises of the laboratory and Missoni knitting machines, recorded and written for the environmental installation Sinfonia Tessile (Textural Symphony) by composer Pietro Pirelli...

Tom of Finland XXL
Bigger is better. Artist Tom of Finland is cult in the gay community. The author of the new book, Dian Hanson has worked for 25 years making men's magazines such as Puritan, OUI, Outlaw Biker.... She has collected texts by contributors like feminist Camille Paglia ...

Knifeandfork
Knifeandfork invites to view their work about the reconfiguration of media structures and contexts by using new media and their potential of non-linearity at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. On 2nd April the illegal, but not penalized, 'Hand of God' soccer goal from 1986 by Diego Maradona becomes the theme for an interactive performance about what was and what might have been...

Yinka Shonibare 'A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child and Other Astonishing Works'
The artist is known for using Victorian era dresses made from atypical fabrics. The brightly colored, wax-printed cloths are African batiks which he gets on a market in London. In his beautifully looking installations, the artist...

I Repeat Myself When Under Stress
Indiscipline, the revolutionary potential of re-thinking. The Siemens Arts Program and the MOCAD in Detroit present 'repetitions' of young artists which are usedwhich are used not as means of relativizing subjectivity (such as in art of the 1950ies to the 1980ies), but as individual criticism. Curator Thomas Trummer: "Well before King Crimson’s “I repeat myself when under stress,” Freudian psychology taught us that in situations of shock, aggression, and nervousness, the mind reaches ...."

Mike Hansen at 'The Communism of Forms'
Toronto based radio/performer and turntablist Mike Hansen is one of more than 50 international artists featuring music video as a lively artistic medium which redefines both Pop music and art on occasion of the exhibition 'The Communism of Forms'...

Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix Sonic Youth and the curator Groenenboom have created an alternative history of contemporary culture that evokes a critical discussion of the division between “high” and “popular” art. Some of the band’s songs have been used to topicalize aspects such as rebellion, hunger, fashion, sex.

Vanity Fair The Condé Nast publication for culture, fashion and politics celebrates its 95th anniversary with a book presenting 300 iconic portraits since 1913 and a travelling exhibition of the magazine’s historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs. In October 2008 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) ...

Lutz Bacher 'Do you love me?'
Lutz Bacher's work is about the construction of identity - especially the female one, in our society through media. Therefore she constructs new identities by 'interfering' advertising campaigns, she manipulates comic books, interviews, porn magazines or televised rape trials...

Ursula Neugebauer
The Austrian Design Festival assembly celebrates with the opening of the exhibition "tour en l´air" by German artist Ursula Neugebauer four days of fashion, music, art, interior design and virtual worlds with works by more than 70 designers/artists from Austria and South East European countries during 14 and 17 May...

The Endless Renaissance
The exhibition presents historical and contemporary works from the 17th century until today about the representation of power. Power is expressed by the tame hyena he commands, his muscles, the protective skirt with decoration, the artful draped camouflage fabric on the baseball cap...