Author Archives: jolanta

I love art that when you see it, you can instantly tell it reflects who the artist is in some way. Like maybe it tells their story or maybe a part of them is in every piece. It’s basically what I do, because my life and experiences is the one thing I know everything about, […]

Experimentation, risk and avant-garde, none of these terms are ever very far from Charo Oquet’s mouth. Miami artist and curator Charo Oquet is well-known in Miami as the mother hen of the emerging artist and the voodoo princess of the Diasporic installation. Oquet is the founder of Edge Zones, an artist initiative in Miami dedicated […]

Come summertime, New York art world pundits, aficionados and scribes turn to the surrounding provinces for action. The occasional solo exhibition or outstanding thematic group show within the boundaries of Gotham may yet surface, but, on the whole, the pen points out of bounds, as it were. We investigate the smallish museums in Westchester and […]

As museum and historian take a revisionist approach to the modernist canon, one area that has provided an interesting point of reinvestigation lies in the area of American Abstract Expressionism and abstract painting in general. Ann Gibson writing in her groundbreaking work Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics observes that many of the problems that have limited […]

The playwright John Patrick Shanley commenting on his own work says "Defiance is a necessary step in the life of an individual and in the life of a nation, but it is an intermediate step." Understanding the play as a step in part explains its shape and size, short, sharp and inconclusive. The Few, the […]

When you first walk into Hun Gallery the giant windows that overlook West 33rd Street appear like some ethereal stage production. The space, which features a large main gallery and an adjacent smaller gallery, is in an especially auspicious location in midtown Manhattan. Promise Cecilia Muhlstein Suha Sin, Threshold – The edge of time, 2002. […]

Samuel Beckett’s masterwork, Waiting for Godot, is easier to parody than to describe and devilish to enact. It’s about loneliness and abandonment, about time and memory, in the famous wisecrack, it’s about "nothing happening twice." More respectfully, Godot is an utterly spellbinding and sad poem of our human dilemma, as moving now as when it […]

The Starn twins began their careers by expanding the possibilities of photography. They revealed a truth that was never spoken of in polite circles: the fact that a photographic image is on a support made of paper. They folded, ripped and taped their photos to reveal the true nature of the medium, and they then […]

When walking into Galerie Lelong to see Alfredo Jaar’s most recent work, one immediately notices something missing. In the heart of Chelsea, in a gallery surrounded by other galleries that present themselves as temples of modern art, there is strangely almost nothing on the walls or any freestanding sculptures. Muxima Andrzej Lawn Alfredo Jaar, Muxima, […]

First exhibited in 2003 at the Station Museum in Houston, Texas, Made In Palestine has found a new venue here in New York City. Drawing over 3,000 viewers in just three weeks, the collection of Palestinian artwork comes at a time when a Hamas-led government has taken over the Palestinian Authority, and calls to completely […]