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The unbearable heaviness of skin and bone: Switcher Sex at Slought

Osvaldo Romberg (left) and collector Lutz Teutloff at Slought Foundation, next to video In Bocca al Lupo, 2003, dvd by Patricia Piccinini, from the Teutloff Collection We got an invitation to meet German collector Lutz Teutloff and his wife Hannelore at Slought Foundation. Teutloff has collected 1,000 pieces of video and photographs focused on the human body. About 35 pieces from the collection are on view at Slought until Feb. 9, in the show Switcher Sex. This is the collection’s debut in a public stage. Teutloff Collection shipping crates at Slought put together like a table. We sat at an ... More » »

Candida Hofer in Philadelphia

Hofer between her assistants Victoria Lelandais Gandit (grey top to left of Hofer) and Alex Janta (on the right of Hofer, with black sweater), taken at Slought Foundation. Christine McMonagle is on the far left. Candida Hofer, the internationally known German artist acclaimed for her enormous photographs of architectural spaces, is here in Philadelphia until the 27th. What she’s doing here, how her visit came about and what she had to say to a class of art history students at the University of Pennsylvania are what this post is about.Why she’s here Hofer is in town for 10 days to ... More » »

Fred Forest at Slought

installation shot, detail, of Fred Forest’s retrospective, Art and Society, at Slought. Fred Forest is a pretty interesting guy. He’s one of the terrific conceptual European artists who practically do not exist as far as American art history is concerned–except that’s not really totally true in the case of Forest, who had an installation, the Digital Street Corner, on the exterior wall of the Bass Museum for Art Basel Miami 2005. Forest, born in Algeria and living in France, has a retrospective exhibit, Art and Society, at Slought Foundation, a gallery conscientiously contributing to the globalization of American art history ... More » »