Author Archives: jolanta
Whitney Biennial 2012
Whitney Biennial 2012 Sarah Michelson (b. 1964), Devotion, 2011. Photograph © Paula Court Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—will fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. The biennial will also feature special artists in residence, Sarah Michelson and […]
The Virgin Show
The Virgin Show This new space’s inaugural exhibition features artists never shown before. “The Virgin Show” will be on view through March 31, 2012. Family Business 520 West 21st Street Chelsea , NYC familybusiness.us
Destined Encounter: New Works By Sang Yong Lee
Shrouded in the illusion of cultural globalization, we have become acculturated to other places in the world as they enter our virtual world. Artists call up diverse images, providing fresh stimuli and recognizing the unknown in their environments. Through duality and ambiguity, artists provide emotional awakening, through which people can mutually confirm their identities, and […]
Re-Imagine Art Festival at the Ukrainian Institute of America
Trying to find one’s place between the walls of the past and the future, the artists have created a body of compelling, emotionally charged works. On the ground floor was an installation by Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos made of steel, cotton and mirror serving as a metaphor to re-imagine the self, while the dance of Inka Juslin […]
In Conversation: Nicola Tyson Interviews Angela Dufresne
“In art, as in painting and music, it is not a matter of reproducing or inventing forms, but of capturing forces. For this reason, no art is figurative.” That’s what Gilles Deleuze claims in The Logic of Sensation. Agreed? Abstract painting, as a distinct investigation, could be been as a set of moves by now, […]
The Flowering of Art on the Lido di Venezia
Several show-stopping and intellectually-challenging works welcomed viewers to the Lungomare G. Marconi, the section of the exhibition most arrayed with art. In city terms, this part of the exhibition runs some 5 or 6 city blocks. First to catch our eye, and especially hypnotic, when lit up at night, was Chinese artist Feng Feng’s stunning […]
Independent Fair Highlights
Open from March 8 – 11, 2012 Independent 548 West 22nd Street, NYC 8 March 2012: 4 PM–9 PM9 March 2012: 11 AM–8 PM10 March 2012: 11 AM–8 PM11 March 2012: 11 AM–4 PMAdmission is free We recommend looking at: 47 Canal Street, 2nd FloorNew York, NY 10002 Michele Abeles, Alisa Baremboym, Antoine Catala, […]
Matta: A Centennial Celebration
Until his death at age 91, Matta continued to plumb the depth of mind expansion, encompassing a territory from the origin of life in the oceans—Mar de Madres (1989)—to the outer reaches of the galaxy. In an essay in the catalogue accompanying the show, Justin Spring explains the working technique: ”Just as in a dream […]
Who Are You in Bed With for V-Day?
Inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s famous 1969 Bed-In, Occupy Wall Street supporters #RevPlay launch their newest campaign-game, urging people everywhere to ask Who Are You in Bed With? On February 14th, we reclaim Valentine’s Day as an invitation for peaceful revolution: love over money, staging a Bed-Out in the public square, open to […]
Waterhouse & Dodd Present Dada Icon Hans Richter
While in Zurich from1916-20 he pioneered the Dada movement with Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and others. In1940 he left Europe for the US and became an American citizen. His films include theseminal Dada film: Dadascope, and he produced a catalogue of films in collaborationwith Hans Arp, Calder, Duchamp, Ernst, Man Ray and others. “Richter’s oeuvre […]
