Author Archives: jolanta
Calderââ¬â¢s Precious Metals: Who Needs Diamonds?
It’s become a cliché to describe statement-making jewelry as “wearable art,” but no other term quite captures the personal adornments made by Alexander Calder. His earrings, necklaces and bracelets were mini-mobiles that dangled from the wrists, necks and earlobes of sophisticates like Peggy Guggenheim and Jeanne Moreau. The Whitney Museum’s current Calder show features room […]
Philosophic Pondering
Home lies at the exit of every train stop, in every traveler’s mind. They travel around for their ideals and their lives. But home is where their hearts lie. To make someone feel touched sometimes all it takes is a rose; to fall in love sometimes all you need is a detail. Sometimes you end […]
Visual Noise
I am fascinated by the emotional and cultural dislocation that has been enabled and accelerated in our media-centric society. I believe what is mainstream today has largely become relevant simply as a result of exposure and distribution, while content itself has been pushed to the margins, and is often generic. My work is often a […]
Women Making Movies
Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art feels like walking into a labyrinthine David Lynch film. Like Inland Empire or Lost Highway, womblike rooms and shadowed hallways open like Chinese boxes to reveal hidden secrets. Spelman’s imaginative installation employs darkness, deep blue […]
Hans Jorgen Henriksen
I grew up in Western Jutland, near a river, with its water flow and transport running all the year round. I grew up in Western Jutland, near a river, with its water flow and transport running all the year round. This early beginning, so closely linked to the water cycle has greatly influenced my […]
Radu Comsa
“Radu Comsa seems to distance himself of any obvious feeling, as a furious rationalist who is hiding an extreme sensibility. Radu Comsa “Radu Comsa seems to distance himself of any obvious feeling, as a furious rationalist who is hiding an extreme sensibility. His shapes are always an absolute novelty, hard to forget. Whether elastic […]
Giuseppe Denti
Giuseppe Denti was born in Cremona (Italy). A painter and engraver, he has recently turned his interests toward sculpture. Giuseppe Denti Giuseppe Denti was born in Cremona (Italy). A painter and engraver, he has recently turned his interests toward sculpture. After his figurative period he went on searching new forms and images that bring […]
Framed and Restored
Each of us sees things in our own unique way. We live in the same world, and are exposed to many of the same things. It’s how we see these things and how we respond to them; that’s what sets us apart. Damaged is a series of discarded, lost, unwanted dolls that have found their […]
Urbane Art
The Ohio State University (OSU) Urban Arts Space is an opportunity for the university and the community to challenge ways of thinking about the performing and visual arts and their role in everyday life through conversation and making. Located in the heart of downtown Columbus, the space bridges the university and the community. It is […]
Picture This
In one of her many meditations on the taking of pictures, Susan Sontag wrote that “all photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable — that is, unforgettable.” Annie Leibovitz, Sontag’s lover before her death in 2004, says she doesn’t really “have a single favorite photograph” among those she’s taken; it’s her body of work, […]
