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The Portikus exhibition hall, newly built in 2006 on an island in the river Main and attached via a plank to Frankfurt's historical Alte Brucke, or Old Bridge, doesn't exactly [...]

In her first institutional solo presentation, dancer, choreographer, and performance artist Alexandra Bachzetsis redefined the term show in the museum context. 'SHOW' consisted of five evenings of performance spread across [...]

It is the human being--not its ego--that stands at the center of Mark Wallinger's work. And that distinguishes him from the YBAs with whom he was once associated. His Ecce [...]

Six years after a comprehensive solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, Rachel Khedoori returned to Switzerland for her second solo show at Hauser & Wirth Zurich. Interiors--spaces inhabited both physically and [...]

As if questioning if, or how, context changes content, Ibon Aranberri titled his recent show 'Integration.' The minimal installation featured three projects from the past seven years--of which only one [...]

An ill-fated attempt to fold a paper crane from memory gave the title to Simon Dybbroe Moller's most comprehensive museum show thus far, 'Like Origami Gone Wrong.' The exhibition was [...]

The work of the Swiss duo Andres Lutz and Anders Guggisberg, much like that of their predecessors Fischli & Weiss, inspires critics to speak of a 'cosmos' rather than an [...]

Though the pairing of Romanticism with Conceptual art is hardly common in art-historical writing, Conceptual art has long been misunderstood as a necessarily dry affair. Even Sol LeWitt, who famously [...]

Known for his meticulous re-creations of places and spaces of the past, such as D.O.M., 2004, a reconstruction of a late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century Polish graveyard that he showed at Galerie Johnen in [...]

In the picturesque baroque city of Solothurn, Costa Vece presented a dark take on the notions of cultural identity, religion, and Heimat (homeland), and, ultimately, on the very possibility of [...]

Gustav Metzger has always worked against the art market, rather than for it. In 1959, he articulated his concept of autodestructive art in a manifesto--an adaptation of Theodor Adorno's argument [...]

What if one could freeze a moment in time--or, more precisely, slow it down until its motion became almost ungraspable? And what if one could then freely move around in [...]

Jan Mancuska's recent exhibition, 'Only those wild species that appeal to people will survive,' was an unswerving assault on the linearity of audiovisual perception and spatial movement, in which a [...]

For the Hague- and Berlin-based artist Marcel van Eeden, it seems, the word death refers to the time before one's life as well as after its end. His 'Encyclopedia of [...]

White cube, black flag, carte blanche ... these catchphrases recur as visual metaphors throughout Luca Vitone's oeuvre, which investigates the meaning--and loss--of 'place' within a globalized world. This major survey [...]

Producing a 1.5-liter PET plastic bottle wastes twice as much water as the bottle will hold. That's the kind of fact you learn through the work of Berlin-based Danish artist [...]

On New Year's morning last year, Steven Parrino, aged forty-six, died in a motorcycle accident near his Brooklyn home. A bit more than a year after his death, 'Steven Parrino, [...]

'Rellik,' the title of young Swiss artist Valentin Carron's debut, refers to the English word 'relic' with its span of connotations, from disdained leftover to religious veneration. Reading it backward, [...]

Basel-born and -based Christoph Buchel is known as a master of incommodiousness. In his recent installation HOLE, 2005, he confronts us once more with a meticulously staged worst-case scenario. And [...]

As Jeff Wall remarked about this retrospective at the press conference, it's most likely the biggest show he'll ever have. And, indeed, with seventy-two works 'Jeff Wall: Photographs, 1978-2004' brought [...]

Background: Immediate-type hypersensitivity to animal proteins is a common problem in people occupationally exposed to animals. Methods: A 19-year-old female working as a voluntary zookeeper in her off-time suffered from hives on her forearms following contact to the fur of a giraffe. For diagnostic evaluation, skin prick tests, assessment of specific serum IgE antibodies, and basophil activation tests were performed. Results: Skin prick tests with a standard series of common aeroallergens were positive for various pollens. Prick testing with native materials was positive for extracts of hair from two different giraffe subspecies in the patient, but not in control subjects. By CAP-FEIA, no specific serum IgE antibodies to dander of a large variety of animals were found in the patient. In the basophil activation test, expression of the activation marker CD63 was induced by extract of giraffe hair on the cells from the patient, but not on those from unaffected controls. Conclusions: This patient suffers from an ‘exotic’ immediate-type contact allergy to giraffe hair. Copyright © 2005 S. Karger AG, Basel [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]