Author Archives: jolanta
Art After Terror
The ACTION–ReACTION exhibition at .NO, a Lower East Side gallery dedicated to Norwegian artists, aims to explore power relations. .NO also creates a link to the 7/22 acts of terrorism in Norway–stating that some pieces can be seen as “contributions to a collective mourning process.” The ambiguity this linkage creates, of what is or is not […]
Philip Glass Joins Occupy Museums at Lincoln Center
Occupy Museums to protest the anti-democratic policies of Lincoln Center and Bloomberg on the last performance of Satyagraha Thursday December 1, 2011 at 10:30PM. It is no doubt timely that Philip Glass’ opera ‘Satyagraha’–which depicts Gandhi’s early struggle against colonial oppression in South Africa–should be revived by the Metropolitan Opera in 2011, a year which […]
Kevin Fey
“I struggle with these demanding and narcissistic materials” Courtesy of the artist. Kevin Feyhttp://www.kevinfey.com/index.html My abstract paintings are attempts to control the uncontrollable. Each painting is a sequence of physical, chemical, gravitationally bound events. Paints pour, bleed, run, drip, clump, fight, blend, confuse the image and the object, and otherwise generally misbehave. […]
Ashbery Knew What They Wanted
In his new exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery on Fifth Avenue, the distinguished American poet John Ashbery again succeeds in revealing his visual sensibilities through new collages. It was as recent as 2008 that the poet made his debut as a visual artist at the gallery. Now with collages with names like Promontory, […]
Two Peacocks. A Department Store
The scene immediately absorbs you. An explosion of colors spreads in space like a peacock’s fan. There are all kinds of greens, pinks, yellows, blues… No traces of white here, but for the two golf balls on John Walter’s Crazy Golf installation at the back of the room: this it all that remains from the White […]
et al Projects, NYC until Jan 13
The Fifth Age of Glass The Fifth Age of Glasset al Projects416 West 145th Street, HarlemDecember 2, 2011 – January 13, 2012Opening: Friday, December 2, 7 – 9 PM
Goethe-Institut, NYC Until Dec 22, 2011
We would provide complete darkness We would provide complete darknessGoethe-Institut Wyoming Building5 3rd Street, Lower East Side, NYCDecember 2 – December 22, 2011Opening: Thursday, December 1, 6 – 8 PM
Your Rainbow Panorama: Denmark
Your Rainbow Panorama: Denmark Artist Olafur Eliasson‘s latest achievement is the incredible “Your Rainbow Panorama” sitting atop Denmark’s ARoS Art Museum in the city of Aarhus. Perched on delicate columns 12-feet above the roof of the museum, the UFO-like structure consists of curved glass multi-colored panels embedded with colored foil which gives the ring structure […]
Around The World: The Common Thread is More Than a Pink Ribbon
caraballo-farman is the multi-disciplinary, collaborative team of artists Abou Farman and Leonor Caraballo. For their project, “Object Breast Cancer,” they utilize MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) technology to create sculpture, installation, and jewelry based on breast cancer tumors. Coinciding with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, selections from this project were recently on view in their exhibitions “Extractions” […]
Pipilotti Rist at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
That nice little wrinkle on my neck, the neat little spinal column under my skin. I would like to eat myself. My breasts are the mountains where the rivers rise. My belly is the lake. My wrist wallows in it. Down through the turmoil of my pubic hair. Sticky with blood. Vulnerability in person. My […]
