Author Archives: The Pandorian

point d’esprit 1

Beatriz greeted me affectionately at the airport in Ibiza last summer. We took a ferry to the smaller sister island of Formentera, where she had purchased a fantastic little villa at Es Pujols, a lively village with a burgeoning tourism industry. At the station, her daughter Rosario had arranged the arrival of two Vespa scooters [...]

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the courage of his heart 0

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind [...]

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kai z feng 0

Images: © Kai Z Feng Kai Z Feng was born in Shanghai and is now based in London. Kai started his artist career as a painter and won numerous award from the early age at 14. His painting was exhibited in China, the USA as well as in Japan. At 24, he found photography and [...]

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mika rottenberg 0

Mika Rottenberg’s immersive video installations address issues of gender and labor through outrageous narratives centered around real women (not actors or models) and their bodies. With her New Work project entitled Squeeze (2010), Rottenberg collapses the humorous and the unsettling to examine global production. She shot documentary footage at a rubber plant in India and [...]

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wolfgang tillmans at serpentine gallery 0

© Wolfgang Tillmans, Dan, 2008 Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley, London The Serpentine Gallery presents Wolfgang Tillmans’ first major exhibition in London since 2003. Conceived by the artist for the Serpentine Gallery, the exhibition will present figurative and abstract work from the last ten years. Over the past 20 years, Tillmans has redefined photography [...]

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tony ward by petrovsky & ramone 0

Images: Tony Ward by Petrovsky & Ramone © From Eric Elenbaas Agency

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ragnar kjartansson 1

Luhring Augustine presents its first solo exhibition of work by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Kjartansson (b. 1976, Reykjavík) is fascinated by the tragicomic spectacle of human experience in which sorrow coexists with happiness, horror with beauty, and drama with humor. Though he is primarily known for performance, Kjartansson also pursues more traditional media such as [...]

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exposed: voyeurism, surveillance and the camera 0

Men’s shoes with camera hidden in heel. © National Museum of American History Photographic History, gift of The New York News Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, [...]

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eva mendes 0

Images: Eva Mendes by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott © Styled by Alex White for W Magazine, June 2010 issue

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waiting for you 0

In a sky full of people, only some want to fly, isn’t that crazy? Images: © Dom Agius, June, 2010 Quote: From Crazy by Seal

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