Author Archives: jolanta
March 20, 2008
www.nyartsmagazine.com | www.artfairsinternational.com | www.nyartsbeijing.cn DAILY NEWSLETTER Thursday, March 20, 2008 NY Arts Beijing Newsletter in Chinese click here International Top News Whitney Museum to Receive $131 Million Gift Leonard A. Lauder, the cosmetics executive and chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said on Tuesday that his art foundation […]
Politics of the Occult
On September 14, 2007, the New York-based artist Panos Tsagaris performed Whom I Love I Chastise with Many Rods in Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, in Leipzig, Germany. In front of talismanic icons of sacred symbols and words, he “housed” himself and a 10-year-old girl within a magical circle that he made with charcoal from burned […]
Frédéric Poincelet
Je ne sais pas si l’on peut véritablement placer mon travail dans «l’art érotique», car mes motivations n’ont rien à voir avec celles de poser un univers fantasmatique ou une libido sur papier. Frédéric Poincelet lives and works in Paris. Frédéric Poincelet, Untitled, 2007. Ballpoint pen and typex on paper, 18 x 13 inches. Courtesy […]
Peter Mueller
Peter Mueller alias Pell was born in 1965 in Vienna, Austria. Employing graffiti and graphic design techniques, he developed and created… Peter Mueller Peter Mueller alias Pell was born in 1965 in Vienna, Austria. Employing graffiti and graphic design techniques, he developed and created his unique personal style in the 80s. His paintings offer […]
March 18, 2008
www.nyartsmagazine.com | www.artfairsinternational.com | www.nyartsbeijing.cn DAILY NEWSLETTER Tuesday, March 18, 2008 NY Arts Beijing Newsletter in Chinese click here International Top News Art Crowd Gets Heated at Armory Dance Party It’s hard to have a throwdown in skinny jeans, but on Saturday night at the Whitney Biennial’s 24-hour dance party […]
Hughie O’Donoghue
I am immersed in the culture of painting and its potential for alchemical transformation. Central to the content of these recent works is the readability of the imagery. For these works, I have used photography as a component of the picture making process. The photographic element has a skin-like quality, which is physically integrated into […]
Cang Xin
It has been 14 years since I engaged myself in performance art. The ultimate goal of performance art is to break the boundaries between art and life, to propose new visions and concepts. Chinese contemporary art has been evolving for the past thirty years, making its fair share of contributions to the global cultural scene. […]
Whitney McVeigh and Pascal Demeester
"It is this truth and brutality that make images that startle the viewer. Unlike the Surrealists, who directed their attention to creating a new visual vocabulary in order to elucidate traditional meanings, McVeigh’s images are pure inventions replete with new understandings." Whitney McVeigh and Pascal Demeester at the Gallery Soho, London Suzie Walshe An […]
Looking for the Most Beautiful Bride in the World
There are many kinds of painters. Some paint what they see. Others paint how they feel. Jia Qiong, of one kind, is always looking for life, memories, and fantasies in the paintings that he makes. His life, he says, is an unending quest. In One Hundred Years of Solitude—his favorite book—there is a sentence: getting […]
Never for Sale
I am originally from the Chicago where I attended the Art Institute of Chicago for my BFA and MFA. At the time, I was studying painting and drawing, but quickly evolved as a visual artist from a “photo realistic” style into what would later become mostly multi-media installations. Ellen Levin is a New York-based artist-activist. […]
