Author Archives: jolanta

As a working class citizen of the good old U.S. of A., Scott Hammond has little time to take elaborately set up photographs in studio situations, as do many of his colleagues in the photo world. So between a full-time job and taking university classes in Columbus, Ohio, he sticks with his mainstay, the Polaroid […]

The objects that adorn the glass cases of the show "Obsolete, Odd and Absolutely Ooky: Stuff from the DAR Museum Vaults" on view at the Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) until September 2nd are ironically accessible and modern. According to the press release, the 18th and 19th Century objects "were useful, […]

São Paulo-based, Edouard Fraipont produces a series of phantasmagoric photographs which explore re-conceptions of body and self. Through negotiations of time and light inherent to the photographic medium he creates an enquiry in to the ways in which a being can distance itself from its existence as a unit. Fraipont works with alternatives of a […]

On Good Friday April 14th, Zito Studio Gallery presented a newfangled concept in the world of "Main Events," featuring a bogus battle advertised as a "championship bout" between wandering Mexican artist, Primitivo Cuevas and Lower East Side art icon, Zito. Painting instead of punching, this canvas combat is a bit more of a lightweight match. […]

Ubiquitous as it is today, an obsession with glamour has produced multifaceted reflections in contemporary art production. Hence this year’s Whitney Biennial catalogue cover adorned with Marilyn Minter’s luscious painting–art that specifically thematizes this phenomenon. In her paintings, Minter uses a highly polished photorealist technique that evokes commercial fashion photography, a medium she doubles in. […]

Ever since Damien Hirst’s "Freeze" exhibit, art students in the UK have great expectations to live up to. How to draw attention to their work? What can be truly new, now that warehouse shows out in the East End are de rigeur? A big shout would be too YBAish, but a small yelp won’t be […]

The idea of site-specific installation was originally seen as a way to circumvent the sterility of the white-cube, evade the materialism of the market, and give control of the exhibition context back to artists. Even so, it’s ironic but not surprising that Tara Donovan’s current installation at Pace-Wildenstein looks like nothing so much as a […]

The curators of the Whitney Biennial missed an opportunity when they didn’t put one of Nicole Cherubini’s sculptures outside of the screening room for "Gore Vidal’s Caligula." Their complementary takes on gaudy opulence–equating American pop cultural excess and kitsch with the decadence of a declining empire–would have strengthened the show’s political thesis. Nicole Cherubini Elwyn […]

Leah Oates: Can you speak first on how you came to the media of sound art and what your progression was as an artist?Andrea Polli: Even as a child, I had been interested in mathematics and computers. These were the days when you had 5 1/4" floppy disks and had to insert a disk with […]

At present, the legendary Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, one of the most important places (not only) of Polish art, celebrates its 40th anniversary. Wieslaw Borowski, together with other artists and critics (like Tadeusz Kantor), was among the founders of the gallery and incessantly he stays its director to today. Such famous artists as Anselm Kiffer, […]