Do you have stairs inside your home? A stair lift, like the Bruno Stair Lifts, can raise or lower you smoothly to the next floor or landing. This particular stair lift has a weight capacity of 350 pounds, and uses 12-volt batteries good thing in the event of an electrical outage. There are three basic varieties of stair lift or chair lifts available in the market which is straight stair lift, curved stair lift and the outdoor stair lift. Numerous...more
Could a new art fair possibly debut under the big black sun of "Pacific Standard Time" (PST), with its 60 affiliated art shows at museums, galleries and alternative spaces? This was the question haunting Art Platform Los Angeles, Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2011, and its organizer Adam Gross, a native Angelenos who joined the fair-management team at Merchandise Mart Properties Inc.(producer of the Armory Show and others) in 2010, after being a development...more
A lot of people recently suffered for Matthew Barneys art. Alas, I was not one of them, although I was supposed to be. A year ago October 1, my flight was canceled, so I missed KHU, a sprawling, multisited, outdoor, all-day performance Barney staged in Detroit at who knows what astronomical cost for a hand-picked audience of around 200. Detroit was the perfect setting for this tale of woe and reincarnation, an economic and spiritual city of the dead and would-be rebirth.It also rained apocalyptically that day, and Barneys performance included a freezing barge ride down the Detroit River, where the audience witnessed, among other things, a crane dredging up a 1967 Chrysler Imperial.There was also actress-athlete Aimee Mullins as Egyptian goddess Isis, seated semi-naked on an engine block filled with live, writhing snakes. In the spectacular finale, five enormous customized furnaces poured molten metal, including parts of the Imperial, into a fiery casting pit that drained into a mold of a massive Egyptian Djed, an ancient symbol associated with Osiris, whose own body was cut up into pieces before it was retrieved and reassembled. But I missed all of this. Arriving in Detroit the...more
As the tents go up in Londons Regents Park, thousands of art enthusiasts -- and the millionaire collectors who actually come to buy -- are streaming into the city for the Frieze Art Fair, Oct. 13-16, 2011, and for the hundreds of fringe exhibitions, fairs and parties that go along with it.The feeding frenzy has slowed, of course, since the economic...more
For women especially, as much as we may fight the truth, the passage of time has toxic side effects -- imposing agings feared, inevitable entropy in a society that hides from death and worships anorexic female beauty along with the flawless attributes of youth.Martha Wilson confronts our fears head on in her show currently on view at PPOW, a tough,...more
At the opening of Three Trips Around the Block, a scorching 15-year survey of work by Rico Gatson at Exit Art, people were lining up to stick their heads through the bottom of a box hanging from the ceiling. Titled Two Heads in a Box (1994), this confrontational video installation is the shows earliest work.Imprisoned behind three bars inside its black interior is a movie that features Gatsons dark face illuminated by fiery red light and adorned with a white clown nose, a painted white beard and a huge white paper bowtie. Inverting Al Jolson's racist early-20th-century blackface performances, Gatson repeatedly intones Jolson's trademark song, Let Me Sing and I'm Happy, until he is ready to drop.The exhibition is the first since the much-lamented death of Exit Art co-founder and director at Exit Art Jeanette Ingberman from complications of leukemia this summer. Jeanette and Papo Colo approached me about the show almost exactly a year before her passing. Gatson recalls, I first met them when they saw my work in 1992 at Sauce and their enthusiasm was my first real New York art world affirmation. Im honored to have been a part of Jeanettes great passion for artists and art.Born in 1966...more
All you need to know about the deadening effect of the Chinese Communist fascist state on artistic freedom is to read the just published interview with Xu Bing, a show of whose work has just closed at the Morgan Library, on Artinfo.com.Responding to...more
Typically the night life from Athens GA bars is really vibrant, lustrous, brulant as well as dazzling. Straight from shows, moviehouses, rock shows as well as live bands to Cin, Athica, flea market along with walking tours, the location delivers all...more
It seems very painful, when your computer behaves unusually, and does not let you take full out of it. It is a machine, so it is natural that it may encounter with various technical issues over the period of time. But as per some latest studies, it...more
Potty training can be considered as the most difficult milestone to be achieved for the parents. Many of us get frustrated when it comes to changing soiled and smelly diapers. We eagerly wait for that one day when our child can come and tell you that...more
Your golf swing should never change from club to club, but the difference between hitting an iron and a driver is you need more precise distance control.Your first rule is to slow down. Every amateur player tends to try to put all their power into a...more
The festive season is on its way to knock at doors. The festive mood has already hit the town. But are you ready to groove into the colours. We present to you the smartest way to achieve the apex degree of joy for the festive mood. And you can have...more