Author Archives: jolanta
Ira Cohen: (1935–2011) Art into Alchemy
“Throughout his life, Cohen had a seemingly endless imagination, taking wonderfully strange photographs of iconic figures, writing thousands of poems, and eventually operating the Bardo Matrix publishing house in Nepal; all the while realizing revelatory experiences into moments of ecstatic perception.” Ira Cohen: (1935–2011) Art into Alchemy Jason Stopa Ira Cohen embodied a certain mystery […]
Revived Through the Thread
“Drawing via embroidery, the works’ surface is created through a dance of repetitive notations, suggesting that a body’s labor isn’t separate from the product it generates but is, rather, another version of it.” osh Blackwell, Plastic Basket (independent triangles), 2010. Plastic bag, yarn, 12 x 18 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Author: Josh Blackwell Borrowing […]
Primal Connection
“I am not necessarily interested in intoxication as a status, but maybe as a way towards the other, the inaccessible, the being but unreachable.” Carsten Holler, SOMA, 2010. Installation view, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. Photo credit: David von Becker. Courtesy of David von Becker. Author: Carsten Höller The SOMA exhibition as […]
Surreal Realities
“Beneath this insanity is the thought that our entire reality is, in essence, a dream or a projection of consciousness that something substantial and possibly spiritual exists beyond the boundaries of our perception.” Eric White, No Neutral Thoughts, 2008. Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches. Courtesy of Peter Farrelly. Author: Eric White I am […]
Practice
GKEVIN JEROME EVERSON’S two-minute film Something Else (2007) begins with a bit of worn color 16 mm—evidently shot for a local television-news station, perhaps sometime around 1970—depicting an interview with Miss Black Roanoke, Virginia, a young woman in a scoop-necked russet gown, with a sparkling tiara perched atop her Afro. The footage seems battered by […]
Max Gordon, Pioneer
New Book Surveys Work of Major Art World Architect Max Gordon in 1970s and 1980s. A new book, Architect for Art: Max Gordon (Marquand Books, 146 pp, hardcover, $40, ISBN: 978-0-615-39579-1) presents a rare opportunity to enter the art world of the 1970s and 1980s and witness firsthand how a master of architectural simplicity set […]
Tomiko Kato
“She was eager to promote Japanese painting overseas, and so she eventually came to the United States.” International Appeal Tomiko Kato Ms. Kato majored in Japanese Painting at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and studied with Seison Maeda during her college days. After graduating, she continuously presented her works as an independent […]
New Director of Albert Museum
Martin Roth Named Director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum Catherine Hickley reports in Bloomberg that London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has announced that Martin Roth will begin as the institution’s director starting September 1. Roth currently serves as the director general of the Dresden State Art Collections, where he supervised the renovation of the […]
Joe Waks
Waks views these paintings as a commentary on the kooky times Kelly Vetter, No Trans Fats. Courtesy of the artist. Immanent Critique Joe Waks No Trans Fats and Union are part of a 14-piece series which Joe Waks labels “socio-absurdist.” They both mix and match the ubiquitous icons and emblems present in our […]
Stolen Klimt Returns
Salzburg’s Museum of Modern Art to Return Klimt to Heir. According to AFP, Salzburg’s Museum of Modern Art will be returning a painting by Gustav Klimt to the Canadian descendant of its original Jewish owner, from whom it was stolen by Nazis. The 1915 painting, Litzlberg am Attersee, once belonged to Amalie Redlich. Georges […]
