Barnstormers Group Exhibition

A massive group show celebrating the members of one of street art's most enduring collectives

As collectives go, the loosely-organized, street art-focused Barnstormers stand out as much for a global scope—they count chapters in New York and Tokyo—as for a growing roster that reads like a who’s who of the genre. The group exhibit opening this Thursday, 18 March 2010 at Joshua Liner Gallery will feature the work of some 35 of these all-stars in a show that highlights each …

Tomás Saraceno: 14 Billions

Spiderweb-inspired art draws on science and architecture for a creepily abstract installation

In a triumph of art, science and architecture, Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno‘s site-specific exhibit “14 Billion” scales a Black Widow’s web up to magnificent proportions. Currently on display at Stockholm’s Bonniers Konsthall, 14 Billion is an extension of the work he showed at the 2009 Venice Biennale called “Galaxy Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web.” The Frankfurt-based artist worked …

Fax Ex-Machina

A trans-continental art show based around the fax machine

To get around Brazil’s convoluted customs procedures and expensive tax laws that govern importing and exporting art, Brazilian collective Autista and British gallery KK Outlet turned to the fax machine to transport art across oceans for a new show called “Ex-Fax Machina.” At last Thursday’s opening Brazilian artists Ramon Martins, Eduardo Recife, Elisa Sassi and Carlos Dias made drawings and faxed them to London’s KK …