the slant from Worldwide

(Ira Upin, Strong Man Series Chapter 6 - Focus, 2010, oil on panel, 36 x 36 in. ArtSlant Showcase Juried Winner.) Eccentric, quirky, and a bit odd... ...artists can sometimes be a little "off." Like Bruce Lacey: expressing something of his "inner child" in an archive of relics, he's a bit batty, a little loony, and way groovy. Likewise, the Matthew Brannon-curated exhibition,Drawing a Blank, is a tad erratic, a smidge neurotic, and actually really funny. A group of artists go on a Vision Quest after Cameron Parsons, and the resulting works make everyday materials seem quite strange, rather perplexing, and awfully beautiful. Ernst Richter and Astrid Jahns--techno-freak and techno-phobe--square off between Dada-style collages and digital circuit boards. And Gallery Diet's Nina Johnson tells us about NADA Hudson: between the relaxed atmosphere and the swimming holes, it was an altogether unusual art fair experience. In the RACKROOM Charlie Schultz interviews Mariam Ghani about her site-responsive video work, A History of Collapses, at dOCUMENTA 13. In the GEOSLANT Kathryn Garcia has joined the ArtSlant Team as Editor of our GEOslant Blog. Welcome!   Carmen Winant considers Soho vis à vis Fluxus, and asks, "Can an art project also be a business?" In the EDITIONS Next week begins our Collector's Catalogue 2012 series, with artists to watch and interviews with collectors worldwide. In the SHOWCASE Round #5 in full swing.  Enter your work now (more).

INTERVIEW WITH MARIAM GHANI Kassel, June 2012 – Mariam Ghani’s research-based projects explore the socio-political histories of specific places, and often respond directly to the site upon which she works and exhibits. For D... [more]

THE BUZZ from other SLANT cities Los Angeles Jesse Fleming, Robert Barry, Barbara Bloom , more... New York Yuji Agematsu, Harold Ancart , more... London Bruce Lacey Amsterdam Erik Kessels Chicago Mark Aguhar, Claire Arctander , more... San Francisco Cindy Sherman, Evan Bissell, Ana Teresa Fernandez , more... India Raghu Rai