Featured Artist: Rex McGregor
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome playwright Rex McGregor from Auckland, New Zealand, where he writes prolifically and works as a Collections Librarian in the city libraries. The Birds Are Feeding …
Quote for Today: Richard Wilk
But instead of being frozen in time, I want to show that “local” and “authentic” food are as much creations of modernity as survivors from before it. Authenticity is therefore …
Quote for Today: James Rosenquist
Popular culture isn’t a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images …
Quote for Today: Arthur Koestler
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- …
Quote for Today: G.K. Chesterton
Can you not see… that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? …
Quote for Today: Marshall McLuhan
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. —Marshall McLuhan
Quote for Today: G.K. Chesterton
I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without fault from the beginning. The leaf on the tree …
Unusual Portrait of Zhang Yimou in Shanghai Alley, Hong Yi aka Red
Red (Hong Yi), an innovative artist and architect from Malaysia living in Shanghai, constructs a portrait of Chinese film director Zhang Yimou from socks, bamboo rods, and pins. Cutting through …