"A form which resists facts..."

Zachary Cahill's art of profusion in USSA 2012: The Orphanage Project by Bert Stabler Discussing his horror-vacui installation Das Auge (The Eye), Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn told Gregory Burke of the Power Plant gallery in Toronto, "I want to give a form which resists facts, which resists opinion and which goes beyond actuality. . . . The eye doesn't need to know—the eye just sees and that's what counts."…

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In the beginning there was nothing

The eloquent silence of "Our Origins" by Tony Adler People are forever talking about origins. Can you imagine a text more thoroughly chewed over than the one that starts "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth"?…

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The Art Institute's "Windows on the War" looks at the Soviet battle for hearts and minds during World War II

An exhibit of wartime Soviet propaganda posters, at the Art Institute. by Bill Stamets Violence ricochets from wall to wall in "Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945." Based on a long-overlooked Art Institute collection, the show offers an encyclopedic installation of 157 epic-scaled, World War II-era Soviet propaganda posters whose graphic style is at times as visceral as their shocking content.…

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