Author Archives: jolanta

In the center of Madrid, facing the famous statue of Cibeles, the vast over-built wedding cake of a town hall has been renovated as an exhibition space and cultural center. The spacious courtyard has been glassed in, and is now a year-round stone lounge and event space. For such a heavy looking building, the interior […]

Edward Kienholz’s Five Car Stud (1969–1972) transports the viewer to a dusty clearing in the woods. It is late at night. Five vintage cars are parked in a circle, their headlights illuminating a couple of dead trees and boulders. Six life-size mannequins, made up to look like white trash, are arranged in the center. All […]

This year, you might have a dilemma. Will you participate in the usual Whitney/Armory folly, or will you decide to rebel and cross the bridge over to Williamsburg for the ARTS not Fair and Brooklyn Armory events? 2011 was intense: Occupy Wall Street, whether you support the movement or not, made sure its voice was […]

As Elizabeth Sussman, one of the curators of the current Whitney Biennial, recently confided to a New York Times critic about the exhibition, “We wanted to be incredibly open.  We didn’t care if an artist had been in a biennial before.  We wanted to show all different sorts of art.”  And she has certainly succeeded.  […]

Leah Oates:  What is your background and what was your progression as an artist? Where there any creative types in your family? Did you know you where going to be an artist? Kari Soinio: I remember my father editing 8mm home movies, cutting and glueing the filmstrips on our living room table to make holiday movies. […]

Enfin Libre is written on a wall of Tunis. Maybe the process to democracy will be long and full of difficulties, but Arab Spring can be considered a big movement of ethical and political protest in the name of freedom. In Arab countries, revolts rose quickly and inexorably to stop autocrats who imposed their authority […]