July 25th 2022

JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS, FOUNDER JSVCprojects

May 30th 2022

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

May 23rd 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ,
KING & KING
A new sculpture
Installed in the United States

May 16th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
SAVE THE DATE
BAD+
July 6-10 2022
HANGAR 14

May 9th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Backstage filming ‘Two Feet Walking’
By Ishmael Annobil, Filmmaker
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College
Cambridge University
8th April 2022

May 2nd 2022

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE

April 25th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BENEDICTE DELAY WITH JASON BUTLER
‘ONE ON ONE’
Exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey
14 April – 2 May 2022

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April 11th 2022

NATURE NOTES:
HELLO TO SPRING, PARIS

April 4th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
A WALKED DRAWING, ‘TWO FEET WALKING’,
By Linda Karshan
In collaboration with Filmmaker, Ishmael Annobil
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge

March 28th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ISHMAEL ANNOBIL, 'INSOMNIA'
Coming soon at L'Interstice, Arles
Opening on April 15, 2022

March 21st 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JASON BUTLER, ‘ONE ON ONE’
Launch new ArtHouse exhibition space
Jersey, England

March 14th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, "THESE SCENES", 2016
Acquired by Centre Pompidou

March 7th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
Bauhaus-Museum,
Weimar, Germany

February 21st 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LOSING DAN GRAHAM
1942-2022

February 14th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAD+
BORDEAUX + ART + DESIGN
New dates: July 6-10 2022, at HANGAR 14

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February 7th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
2000 THANK YOU NOTES
7 February 2022

January 31st 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
NEW SPACE FOR JSVCPROJECTS

January 24th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROBERT STONE
Debut with Haines Gallery at FOG Design + Art 2022
San Francisco, CA

January 17th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
nolde / kritik / documenta
A project by documenta archiv, Draiflessen Collection and Mischa Kuball
NEW DATE: FALL 2022

January 10th 2022

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

January 3rd 2022

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!
WARM WISHES AND NEW ADVENTURES

December 13th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MINYADES
An exhibition of paintings by Richard Höglund
The Bonnier Gallery, Miami
December 2021
A Catalogue Essay

December 6th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
ReferenzRäume
Museum Morsbroich
5 December – 24 April 2022

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November 29th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ABOUT THE TREES
Thanksgiving 2021

November 25th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

November 15th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE WORLD MAP
Thanks to Mr Hide

November 8th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN LABIOMISTA, GENK (BELGIUM)
The book launch and debate
“NOT TO BE MISTAKEN”, November, 4th

October 25th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
OCTOBER 2021
"Linda Karshan: The Covid-19 Conversation"
Still in the limelight

October 18th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
POSTSCRIPT PARIS

October 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND III
Out of the oven
Warsaw Sept 28-Oct 3

October 5th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE
NOVARTIS Campus – Forum 3, Basel
DIENER & DIENER - WIEDERIN
2005

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October 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BETWEEN LISTENING AND TELLING
Esther Shalev Gerz
Nuit Blanche Paris,
Tonight

September 27th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

September 20th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART BASEL HALL 2.0C1
René Schmitt and ART & LANGUAGE
THESE SCENES, 2016

September 6th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
Wolfsburg and Utopias

September 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE

August 30th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Bright blue and white ceramics fill the dining room with warmth and visual appeal

August 23rd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Starts today in Warsaw through 3 October

August 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
SUMMER IN PARIS

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July 30th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 26th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
ARCO MADRID,
1st Art Fair in 2 years

July 23rd 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 19th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 16th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 12th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
JASON BUTLER "THE COLLAGES"
Pop-Up Exhibition, Jersey

July 5th 2021

STILL BEHIND THE SCENES:
NINA NOWAK'S EXHIBITION
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen

June 28th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY UNREALISED BRICK PROJECTS
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen

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June 21st 2021

NEW ARRIVALS:
MISCHA KUBALL

June 18th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE NIETZSCHE-HAUS SILS-MARIA
Schwabe AG Basel, 2004 Peter André Bloch & Jan Thorn-Prikker
on the occasion of Helmut Federle's "Edelweiss im Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria" exhibition in Nietzsche's Haus, Sept 2004 to July 2005

June 14th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
L'INTERSTICE ARLES OPENING
JOSETTE SAYERS AND GUILLAUME ZUILI'S PHOTOGRAPHS
Brave and fearless

June 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
CONGRATULATIONS ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
DIRECTOR for "LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"​
WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AT MYKONOS INTL FILM FES

June 4th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE LAUNCH OF REAL TIME AND THE 3BS

May 31st 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
FLOWERS OF PERHAPS
LIOR GAL
ENGELS PLEIN, LEUVEN BELGIUM

May 24th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT DESIGNS NEW MUSEUM FOR LA MANUFACTURE DE GIEN

May 17th 2021

THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO:
DRAW ART FAIR, LONDON, 2019, DESIGNER MATHILDE BRETILLOT AND ARCHITECT MISKA MILLER-LOVEGROVE

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May 10th 2021

NEW ARRIVALS:
WETTERLING, STOCKHOLM

April 25th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
ABSTRACT PAINTING OF AMERICA AND EUROPE
Ritter Verlag, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, 1988

April 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LUKAS HOFFMANN, CNAP ACQUISITION AND TWO EXHIBITIONS

April 9th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ, WEFRAC 2021

April 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
"LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
selected by Nawada and Hollywood Boulevard Festivals

March 29th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
CNAP ACQUISITION,
"Describing Labor", 2012

March 26th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
A STUDIO VISIT WITH DEANNA PETHERBRIDGE

March 22nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS & INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EXPEDITIONS

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March 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE IN NEW YORK

February 22nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3
The Sadness of Bad Thinking

February 15th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3, ART, POETRY, AND THE PATHOS OF COMMUNICATION,
The Art of Impeachment

February 1st 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
WITH POET/CURATOR RICHARD MILAZZO
REVISITING OBSZINE #3

January 12th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
POETRY IN SEDITIOUS TIMES

January 5th 2021

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SOUVENIRS FROM 2020!

December 31st 2020

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
DECEMBER 31, 2020
JASON BUTLER'S EXHIBITION
Meyer Schapiro, “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society

December 18th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LIOR GALL, BRUSSELS, 2020

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December 11th 2020

HIGHLIGHT:
LOVE LETTERS
A new participative project by artist Koen Vanmechelen

December 4th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN AND THE BROOKLYN RAIL

November 27th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
NOVEMBER 2020, LINDA KARSHAN
The Covid Conversation, A New Film

November 6th 2020

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
PARIS, NOV. 6, 2020
ABËTËI by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil

October 20th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT
Designs new offices for Parfums de Marly, Paris

October 12th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN STUDIO VISIT - LUKAS HOFFMANN

October 7th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN

September 24th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
GALERIE NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER, VIENNA
Friederike Mayröcker, Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist - until 10 Oct
Schutzgeister/Guardian Spirits

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September 9th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS AND KOEN VANMECHELEN
The Battery Channel Podcast

September 1st 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, JERSEY

August 25th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MANIFEST OF THE TRUE

August 18th 2020

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
3 LOVE POEMS IN THE SUMMER

August 11th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
SUMMER NEWS

August 4th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROD MENGHAM,
Awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets

July 28th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS RECOMMENDS

July 21st 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Studio visit

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July 14th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
STEFANO CIGADA,
"Frammenti" at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere

January 2nd 2020

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!

September 9th 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY,
"Brick Sculptures"

September 2nd 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO PUGLIA
"Ceramic & Food Route",
Recent Summer 2019 Highlights

August 26th 2019

JSVC HIGHLIGHTS:
ART & LANGUAGE, LONDON

June 17th 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
DRAW ART FAIR LONDON

April 22nd 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, EXHIBITION AT GALERIE MICHAEL JANSSEN, Berlin

March 4th 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
DR. SUSANNE A. KUDIELKA,
Private art collecting is a passion

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July 25th 2018

BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN
“It’s About Time”

July 4th 2018

BEHIND THE SCENES:
DAYDREAMING WITH STANLEY KUBRICK,
Exhibition at Somerset House, London

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BEHIND THE SCENES:
WITH POET/CURATOR RICHARD MILAZZO
REVISITING OBSZINE #3

February 1st 2021

PART I

In 2017, Richard Milazzo writes in his opening lines of OBSzine3:

“I would like to address two extreme forms of pathos as they relate to communication: those who simply lie politically, that is, within the specific bounds of the polis, which we may describe as a pathetic and shameless act; and those who are the pathetic victims of exploitation (no matter how heartless this description may sound in this particular instantiation), and, as a consequence, feel and are, to varying extents, voiceless, disenfranchised, helpless.”

From my office in Paris, I have tried to share my efforts at making sense of the world with you. Either through the lens of the people I work with in our International Agency JSVCprojects, or via others who seem to jump off my bookshelves into posts at the end of any given week, called, A Walk in My Library, in other words, the public and private face of this moment.

Haven’t planned this other than making lists each week of things that catch my breath, or stop me in my tracks, never have I traveled so little and wanted to share so much. All bets are off. Everything is different. This suspension of time feels like floating in space without gravity some days, barefoot against a wooden parquet.

January surprised me. Didn’t think there was anything left to shock my system. Destroying moral conventions all used up. Thought Evil was floating around in clouds, political evil, propaganda, outright lies, propelled like hand grenades. If we could only get to the Inauguration without anyone getting shot, then came January 6.

Feels like 9/11 or the July day in 2005 when London blew up in four locations over ten minutes. Edgeware Road by LISSON a target. I was on the Piccadilly Line early that morning behind the train that blew up. The world changes, you change, we change, every one changes, ripples from a stone hitting calm pond water. I am not the writer I was on January 5. My brain recalibrates. I see Leni Riefenstahl movies (Fox news of its day) in mind, and stutter because I wonder how such lies spin into golden fleece like the run up to WWII. Well, here’s how, you all, in our life times like genocide in Bosnia, people do horrible unspeakable things to each other, people watch silently complicit. Even reaping the benefits.

Part II

I listened to Samantha Powers and before her to Richard Holbrooke trying to understand how evil smolders and then flames. Read Hannah Arendt to try to let my nervous system understand evil’s mundane daily life. The past four years have taken their toll; we see this now. The reaction in a country where racial prejudice floods the land below its surface; I would tell my fellow Europeans now having lived on this side for twenty-five years, I still explain.

At least Obama wasn’t shot, this is the backlash. How fragile everything is around us, our bodies against an unseen virus, and our body politic against this same kind of enemy. As if the earth has been cracked open and all the smoky devils in Disney cartoons spill out of the center taking aim at everything and everyone. Changing up and down; right and wrong; black and white; truth and lies into one big milkshake of sludge, a dark slimy substance pulsing up in people as they take to the streets with impunity.

Before 6 January I planned to shout-out Richard Milazzo for the brilliant on line magazine he published three years ago now with a call to arms from several dozen artists he knows over the years. Of this crew we have a community of people who knew each other in the New York art world of the 80’s. We were young together. I was among them, a writer, journalist and gallery Director at John Gibson Gallery 568 Broadway. I thought naively it would be a good way to talk about the past; what was different about the art world in the 80’s for those of us who were still alive to reflect. I also wanted to speak about colleagues and dear friends, like James and Alexandra Brown who died last year unexpectedly, before Covid. This seems like a very long time ago now. Suddenly there is much more at stake.

Part III

We cannot afford to be voiceless, disenfranchised, helpless. The artists in this publication are standing up as they did in the 80’s for a civic voice of truth to power and it has remained a deep resolve in their works and writings. For this compendium of sanity I thank Richard and all my fellow contributors with whom I was deeply honored to publish. We share this now because it is even more important than when it was first published.

The reason I wanted to do this shout-out was because in December I was feeling perhaps we had survived the worst. Perhaps we could let our collective guard down, perhaps we would manage to have a transition of power that was normal. With this optimism I wanted to salute Richard Milazzo for taking on the issue of the BIG LIE, like a gentleman poet, publisher, curator that he is. Letting art speak to power, as we are sick to our collective stomachs. Artists and writers together on Pathos of Communication. Then suddenly, I wake up and we were in a tragedy of enormous proportion. A Greek Drama in real time is news. The devil incites followers to violence on television. We watch this on cable news in Paris in real time. They want to hang the Speaker of the House, they believe THE BIG LIE that the election is stolen and the Vice President can negate the election.

Part IV

You must be kidding I shake my head. Then realize it is a lie bigger than any truth can ever be, seventy million people believe this BIG LIE and voted to re-elect the man. In 1938, remember forty four million people voted for a man who destroyed Germany and Europe in World War II. Millions were killed because of his big fat lies. He had a whole department of Big Lies.

Richard Milazzo calls us to resistance. It is our responsibility to resist tyranny and lies in whatever way we can, as artists, and writers, bear witness and resist.

“We need not belabor the former, because we know and they know who they are, since they are front and center on the political stage both the Right and Left Wings (of a governmental beast – David Hume described it as a Leviathan – that can hardly crawl much less fly or get off the ground any longer),” and/or Republican and Democratic Parties, who prevaricate covertly behind closed doors and inside backrooms, and, of course, the 70-year old toddler who is currently waxing triumphant as oligarchical leader of the United States, even as he recklessly and blindly dares Impeachment (a futile act of justice if not ending in conviction). I will not mention his name, because in fact, this is all he is interested in; advancing his name and the massive fortunes he and it as a brand hope they will amass misusing the platform of public service, which he is exploiting to the hilt, grossly and grotesquely violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.”

Part V

So knowing what we know, that good people are not on both sides, and there are those carrying guns into Congress, spouting conspiracy theories, threatening people who disagree with them. It is going to get worse; we all are afraid of this.

“For there is nothing pathetically deformed or bankrupt about a pathos-driven voice that would forge itself into an act of resistance. What is important to understand clearly here is the content of this drive, not only as it was given to us (etymologically) by the ancient Greeks but by our seemingly inherent (if not innate) impulses to be civilized, which reflects nothing more and nothing less than the desire to become human, or commendably so, more human, even where we may view this merely (suspiciously) as a psychological or purely social construction (constructive and constructed motive or motor).”

Richard asked us to contribute within this quagmire of a dilemma after writing his introductory text in May 2017 from an Austrian hotel room overlooking Lake Attersee. A place familiar with the thumping drumbeat of history relentlessly bearing down on its borders, tearing its society into shreds, spewing its own conspiracy theories across bloody streets and alleys so history might benefit. It has given us music, poetry, art, and we are all challenged even now three years later. My goal to share elements from this magazine of witness, a compilation of sensibilities and longing, noteworthy affronts, jarring misconstrued aesthetic twists and turns; look at the ones who live on another day to bear witness.