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Larry Rivers, Later Works
Larry Rivers Larry River’s exhibit “Later Works” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, NY. Open from April 26th through June 15th. The majority of the works assembled were done in the last two decades of the artist’s life, between the 1980s and late 1990s. They follow his ongoing exploration of a […]
Everything And All: Slawomir Marzec at Varsovian Gallery
The exhibition is a special treaty on painting and visibility. Marzec takes here (as he does in his theoretical publications) the discussion of the current concept of the picture. His critical references to the idea of parergom (Kant, Derrida), screen (Lacan), repetition (Deleuze), palimpsest (Lyotard), cut/tear (Didi – Huberman) and too others are clearly visible […]
Helsinki World Design Capital 2012
Helsinki, World Design Capital of 2012, is this year’s destination for every design lover with an eye for exciting events, encounters and eccentric exhibitions. Known for their long and distinguished history in design, Finns consider the mandate, granted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, as an exquisite way to present how design […]
Peasants In The City: Rebecca Morgan at Asya Geisberg
On a Thursday evening, in inebriated Chelsea, I robotically entered the Asya Geisberg Gallery and realized that I had stepped into an 18th century fairytale, somewhere in the midst of European woods. Portraits of beautiful, naked women sitting next to grotesque caricatures of modernized peasants. I may have cringed at a few three-dimensional boils that […]
The Body In Question
Unless his estate is keeping them hidden, there isn’t a single nude in Martin Chambi’s work. That in itself is remarkable: photography has been synonymous with disrobing and the strip tease since its inception. Was it reluctance on Chambi’s part, local mores, or restrictions of colonial society? It hardly matters. If Maxim Gorky had been […]
Eugene Lemay’s Navigator
The works may be viewed as visions of a mythological underworld. They are tributes to all the dead, everywhere, who left without the chance to say goodbye. Their depth, mystery and profundity are not hidden or difficult to decipher; they are accessible. Their power lies in the strength of truth, of authenticity. The subtle […]
Ron Gorchov At Cheim & Read
Rejecting the traditional rectangular painting support, Gorchov is able to create a compositional balance all his own – one that continues to feel fresh. His skill in dealing with a unique support feels almost as if the work were able to carve out it’s own niche in painting history. The selectively hung exhibition, curated by […]
On The Passing Of Two Critics
Two recent deaths in the art world have caused some reflection on the state of criticism. Firstly, is Amos Vogel. Vogel was one of the most influential cineasts in New York City. He was best known for his seminal book Film as a Subversive Art (1974). He was also the founder of the New York […]
The Counter Attack of the San Francisco Avant-Garde
In the first phase, opened by a hilarious but somewhat unnecessarily prolonged and messy BUTOH performance (sort of post-1945 “avant-garde” Japanese expressive dance) of the performance artists, Ronnie Baker and Luku-San, Elena Slivnyak displayed some of her latest experimental work whose choice of evolving futuristic forms as well as visibly tough and all-purpose texture clearly […]
Romania’s 100 Year Festival Takes Summer
The festival here in Bucharest gathers the people who have worked and/or learned with him and allow them to pass on some of their knowledge and experience to the next generation for all to see. The 2012 festival is the first one ever, marking 100 years from his birth.We have events to discover the Maestro […]
