the slant from Worldwide

(Nihaal Faizal, Childhood Neglect, 2010, photograph. ArtSlant Showcase Juried Winner) From childhood to old age... ...our life's journey is a circumnavigation, a circuit from youthful abandon to the throes of death. As infants we're captivated by color, fun, silliness--those qualities found in Jessica Stockholder's public art installation in Chicago. We're drawn to craft, the sensuality of creating objects by hand, with knots and clay, paper and earth. Summers are spent in languor and bliss at the beach. Our adolescent bodies are wracked with desire, love, sex, and transgression, cruising for connections, danger and excitement. As life becomes more complex, we long to relive those times, we reminisce and become nostalgic--as Deric Carner's multi-subject exhibition recalls, in its thematic loops and cinematic aesthetics. We repeat ourselves, reconsume our experiences--as Zhao Yao's restaged exhibition aptly embodies. And as we reach the end of our circumnavigation, the last stages of life, we confront endless contradictions and complexities. As we learn through the fiction-turned-reality in Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray's collaborative film: death--so unknowable--can only be framed in life. In the RACKROOM Christina Catherine Martinez speaks with Daniel Clowes about cartoons, characters, and delayed appreciation. GEOSLANT World Max Nesterak guides us to Berlin's greatest art bookstores. In the EDITIONS Don your beach hat, because ArtSlant is going to the Hamptons! In the SLANT At the Chicago Urban Art Society, Stacey Rozich's solo exhibition will be opening on July 6th at 7pm. On view until August 4. Opening July 5, 6-8pm, at JoAnne Artman Gallery in Laguna Beach, James Verbicky's Force Bloom will be the highlight of Laguna Beach Art Walk. The exhibition runs until July 31. In New York, TNC Gallery presents Up From the Deep, a group exhibition opening on July 10 from 7-10pm, running until August 25.

PICKS AND PERSPECTIVES THIS WEEK Beach and Beach Corcoran Gallery of Art Harry Callahan, Mitch Epstein, Nicholas Nixon... Craft Services Philadelphia Museum of Art

INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL CLOWES San Francisco, June 2012:  "Is that a comic book you're reading?" I'm sitting on an AC Transit bus in Oakland, reading a collection of Daniel Clowes' early short-story comics. I nod at the elderly gentl...[more]

THE BUZZ from other SLANT cities Los Angeles Paul Waddell New York Rodney Dickson, Vito Acconci, Leonard Fink , more... London Amsterdam Ben Akkerman, Carl Andre , more... Chicago Jessica Stockholder San Francisco Deric Carner Miami Colin Chillag China Zhao Yao