Author Archives: jolanta
journal/letter/conversation – publisher/editor
March 13, 2015 From: Fredrik Redan Subject: Text to journal, letter via Hans Date: March 13, 2015 at 4:17:19 AM EDT Read about Hans Andre and came to think of his early years when he worked together with Staffan Hallström. Staffan who were older and well-established artist, he later received the title of professor, began […]
“City of Dreams” by Fiorentina De Biasi
Fiorentina De Biasi “City of Dreams” Photo collage and staples March 7th , 2015, 7pm – 10pm Leonardo Rossi Studio 200 West 21st , NYC 212 727 9777 Fiorentina De Biasi was born in Castellammare di Stabia (Naples, Italy). She studied at DAMS (Department of Art Music and Entertaining) at Bologna University. She graduated in […]
I Got Kicked Off of Facebook for Posting Images of Medieval Art
March 6, 2015 • By Jerry Saltz | NYMAG On Tuesday morning, I tried to log into Facebook via my iPhone. It didn’t work. I didn’t think anything of it, as I often don’t remember my passwords. When I tried again on my laptop, however, I wasn’t able to log in either, and instead got […]
MoMA’s Björk Disaster
By Jerry Saltz | Vulture Without quite meaning to, I seem to have prereviewed the Museum of Modern Art’s current Björk show. I greeted its June announcement with dismay, writing, “Today the Museum of Modern Art crawled deeper into cravenness, announcing the upcoming ‘full-scale retrospective’ of Björk. Don’t get me wrong: I love Björk and […]
stARTup Art Fair Creates Space for SF’s Independent Artists
Held up to juggernauts like Basel, the fairs produced by artMRKT Productions, now in New York, Miami, Houston, Seattle, and San Francisco, feel like playful, hip alternatives (see: Williamsburg food trucks shipped out to the Hamptons). But this year, running parallel to artMRKT San Francisco’s fifth outing, a new local effort makes its own outsider […]
2015 Armory Show fair puts focus on Middle Eastern artists
By Geoff Edgers | Source: The Washington Post NEW YORK — The golden Saddam Hussein statues hadn’t arrived, but Wafaa Bilal decided it was time to come up with a price tag. The 2015 edition of the Armory Show fair would open Thursday to the public. “I’m thinking $80,000 to $100,000,” Bilal said casually to […]
Amy Cohen Banker @ Architectural Digest Design Show, NYC
Architectural Digest Design Show March 19-22, 2015 Booth #131 Piers 92 and 94, 55th Street, NYC, NY Le Petit Musee @ The Emporium InDeArts, Great Barringtons, MA, Sept. 2015 Amy Cohen Banker – American artist born in NYC, NY. She is one of the most energetic practitioners of New York School aesthetics, whose expressionistic […]
Art of the State – Banksy
When Time magazine selected the British artist Banksy—graffiti master, painter, activist, filmmaker and all-purpose provocateur—for its list of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2010, he found himself in the company of Barack Obama, Steve Jobs and Lady Gaga. He supplied a picture of himself with a paper bag (recyclable, naturally) over his head. […]
Manuella Muerner Marioni at Auction House of Modern and Contemporary Paintings, Paris, France
Aesthetics of becoming playful and self-analysis between reflections and Human research In the artistic philosophy of Manuella Muerner Marioni Life and the Being plays an absolutely important role, both conceptually and visually. We could say that both are part of a single fascinating idea that existence blends utopia and reality in a game of shapes, […]
“Judith Scott: Bound and Unbound” at BROOKLYN MUSEUM
“Judith Scott: Bound and Unbound” BROOKLYN MUSEUM NEW YORK Through March 29 Curated by Catherine J. Morris and Matthew Higgs What’s called “outsider art” has informed modern art for over a century; Judith Scott’s story shows that its example remains powerful. Born with Down syndrome and then left deaf by a childhood illness, Scott spent […]
