Author Archives: jolanta

Tal R’s exhibit Adieu Interessant was featured at the Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery in Berlin as part of the German capital’s citywide gallery weekend this past May. The Israeli-born Danish artist displayed ten large-format collages on two floors of the David Chipperfield designed space. The canvases in Adieu Interessant resembled abstract compositions from afar, two-dimensional […]

I have always been fascinated by the notion of the animal—as a symbol, but more significantly, as a kind of physical entity. Bataille, in "Theory of Religion," talks about a space he calls “animal intimacy”—a conceptual space or age that has existed before the age of human production/consumption, which introduced a fundamental hierarchy. But he […]

Change is much more painful than progress, yet infinitely more rewarding. Imagine if Guston decided to continue with his muted abstractions? Imagine if he succumbed to the pressure of expectation from dealers and collectors? Then I imagine he would exist as a marginal abstract expressionist who rode the wave of America’s first great art movement. […]

Over the last nine years, New York City has grown to be my favorite city. The island of Manhattan alone has such a dense, mysterious network of man-made structures soaring fifteen hundred feet aboveground and digging 800 feet below. The five boroughs of New York are connected by more than 35 bridges and tunnels that […]