November 13 & 14: Juliana Huxtable presents her new performance, There Are Certain Facts that Cannot Be Disputed. Produced in collaboration with a ensemble of music, sound, video, and lighting artists, the work addresses the difficult relationship between the ephemeral nature of digital information and the drive for historical documentation online. 

WHAT’S ON: Michael E. Smith, July 11 - August 30, 2015. De Appel  Prins Hendrikkade 142, 1011 AT Amsterdam, Netherlands

Michael E. Smith, Untitled (X), 2010, Plastic and industrial foam, 10.25 X 11.5 X 11.5, De Appel, Amsterdam, 2015. Courtesy the artist and De Appel.

Cristina Troufa

Janelle Pietrzak makes weavings with whole worlds inside of them, anachronistic and also subversive and new. There’s hints at ornamental masks and patchwork topographic swaths seen from airplane windows and blonde California grasses in summer. And of course whatever you see, too. 

Tokyo-born, Dusseldorf-based artist Ramon Todo splices stones, volcanic rock, obsidian, fossils, books, and even fragments of the Berlin Wall with clear layers of polished glass, creating surprising works of sculpture that feel like objects you might encounter in a dream.

"The juxtaposition of the sharp hard glass surface wedged in between crumbling porous rock, or forced into obsidian, or slotted into an old frayed book cover is a quiet commentary on the nature of material. By combining these distinctly different materials, Todo is talking about fragility and stability."

Many of the stones and fossils are found by Todo while he’s out taking walks. He closely associates the objects he chooses with their surroundings, both the land on which they were found and the culture of the area. By inserting pieces of glass, Todo transforms them into something new, altered artifacts and geological specimens.

Click here to check out more of Ramon Todo’s fascinating sculptures. There you can zoom in on each piece to get a much closer look. Still more pieces are viewable here and here.