High Fructose Corn Syrup

Artist Christopher Chiappa lines gallery walls with garbage bags, dresses upside-down, and covers a basketball with corn

NYC-based artist Christopher Chiappa’s first solo show in eight years, “High Fructose Corn Syrup,” boldly explores themes of cultural degradation, anxiety and industrialized sweeteners. Now on view at NYC’s Kate Werble Gallery through 10 April 2010, the show includes a variety of media, including photography, sculpture and video to describe a personal narrative on the loss of innocence. Chiappa notes, “It’s sort of all a …

Bonetti/Kozerski Design Studio

An interview with a Brit and Italian duo marking ten years of elegantly seductive interior architecture

For the past decade NYC-based Bonetti/Kozerski Design Studio have been building an impressive portfolio of work centered on the relationship between the interior and the exterior as one fluid continuum. Founded by Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski, the duo work together to develop effortless spaces, blending the fundamentals of architecture and design with distinct European flair. Kozerski, originally hailing from the U.K., and the Italian-born …

Nancie Battaglia: In Motion

The beauty of Olympic motion captured in photography

Winter Games vet and prolific photojournalist Nancie Battaglia has been documenting Olympians since 1980 when they came to compete in her adopted town of Lake Placid. The resulting collection of photos currently makes up the current show “… in motion …” on view at upstate New York’s 7444 Gallery through 6 March 2010. While sports fans may already be familiar with Battalgia’s photos from publications …