MCA Australia Relaunch

Two exhibitions on time christen Sydney's newly-renovated Museum of Contemporary Art

by Alex Vitlin Following an 18-month, $53 million redevelopment project, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia relaunched in late March. The addition of “Australia” at the end of its title is appropriate: the MCA is no longer merely great art sequestered in a hokey building in Sydney, it’s a modern museum on one of the most coveted pieces of real estate in the world. In …

Rachel de Joode

The magic-surreal, inflatable neo-dada work of a still life sculptor

Rachel de Joode is a Berlin-based sculptor who specializes in still lifes made from materials like a stack of Kraft singles, an oozing banana, a wooden club piercing a pile of white bread, wigs, people and a giant inflatable chicken foot. Her most recent work “Life is Very Long” is a part sculpture, part performance piece composed of tennis gravel, styrofoam and 60 frozen Dr. …

Studio Visit: Joshua Light Show

Gary Panter and Joshua White tune you in and trip you out with an array of mind-bending works

Meeting Joshua White and Gary Panter is like stepping back in time. Not because White is responsible for creating the Joshua Light Show—the beautifully psychedelic backdrop that entertained thousands at Fillmore East concerts for Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, The Who and more in the 1960s—but because they continue designing experiences with the same childlike nature they likely possessed as creative young kids decades ago. This …