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	Karel Císař \| news \| 01.03.2001
	LONDON
	ICAFollowing its earlier spotlighting of Beijing and Bombay, June saw the ICA continue its survey of art in significant urban centers, this time presenting works from contemporary Berlin. The organizers were inspired to create this three-year-long series of exhibitions by a sense that urban loyalties are gradually replacing the power of national identity. Berlin artists Oliver van den Berg,…

Homeless & Hungry | news | 01.02.2001

LITERARY SPOT: STAR WARS: CHILL OUT

"Fewer and fewer people are interested in the story of Jesus®. I do not want to bore the reader, so I’ll just say that… that the Galactic Republic is engulfed in turmoil. The insatiable Trade Federation has attempted to take control of all the trade routes currently being used by the CocaineTM caravans and they have unjustly surrounded the peaceful planet of GSM with hundreds of their giant…

Jeffrey A. Buehler | news | 01.02.2001

IMAGE YOUR DESIRE

For a while it seemed as if everything imaginable was happening at Universal Space NoD in Prague, that is, before the government inexplicably decided to shut it down. But before they could padlock the door, from 27–30 March the Swedish/Czech production of A Mantelpiece — A Story for the Eye by the Blackstone groups artfully cluttered the backroom of the building with their floor-to-ceiling live…

Vladan Šír | news | 01.02.2001

PARTY IN VIENNA

"Following 15 years of planning and construction, the ambitious project MuseumsQuartier, a new museum quarter in Vienna, is nearing completion. The beginning of June saw the opening of the Vienna Kunst-halle, which has moved into the neighborhood from its former home in the White Cube on Karlsplatz. The building that had been home to the Kunsthalle since 1992 will be reconstructed, wrapped in…

Martin Zet | news | 01.02.2001

ZCCZ TIP: BARBARIANS

Toilets abroad are precisely the places that Czech tourists describe as inspiring in us a feeling of cultural supremacy. Rumor has it that some people have had to return home prematurely from their working stays in countries with Islamic traditions due to the lack of toilet paper in local toilets. When the Turkish sculptor, Kemal Tufan, and I joked around one day, describing mutual cultural…

Lenka Lindaurová | news | 01.02.2001

THE VENICE BUZZ

This year’s 49th Venice Biennale, directed by Herald Szeemann in his second term in office, utilized the theme “Plateau of Humankind” to show, perhaps, that contemporary art is not concerned only with shock value. In addition to the traditional national presentations at the Giardini pavilions, the Biennale last year opened a new space on the former dock space Arsenale. With its huge capacity, it…

Vladan Šír | news | 01.02.2001

MORI FINDS DIRECTOR

The Japanese construction tycoon, Minoru Mori, cut a deal in May with Moderna Museet director David Elliot, who will become the head of the planned Mori Art Museum at the Mori Art Center in Tokyo. In six years Elliot was able to turn the Stockholm-based museum of modern art into one of Europe’s most respected institutions. (During his tenure, incidentally, the museum organized a major exhibition…

Karel Císař | news | 01.02.2001

WINDOW GALLERY

The Prague Window Gallery recently presented photographs by the young British artist Luke Gottelier, who was singled out in 1998 for the important exhibition Surfacing at the ICA. We can find a forerunner of his ambiguous photographic treatment of common themes in Ele-vage de Poussiere (Dust Bree-ding), the combined work from 1920 by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, which consists of Ray’s shot of the…

Jeffrey A. Buehler | news | 01.02.2001

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Ivan Mečl | news | 01.02.2001

BLACK SWINE ATTACKS

David Černý (a.k.a. The Black Swine), that famously scandalous artist — forever scorned by decent citizenry — has shown once again that he’s got something ”up his sleeve.” He has succeeded in smuggling his mostly buried statue of a pink tank into Bohdaneč Spa, which has even enraged our stoic, stone-faced Premier. The monument celebrates the departure of the red cavalry from our pictures-que…

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