Author Archives: jolanta

Michael Zansky: Let’s talk about something like the film industry, where millions of people around the world look at something during the lifetime of the film and compare that to hanging a lonely little painting in a gallery, where maybe a few people see it and say "no fucking way?" Artist to Artist: Michael Zansky […]

I’ve always loved that line from Who Framed Roger Rabbit when Jessica Rabbit says "I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way." That’s how I feel about the girls in my drawings. I like to think of them as nice girls, the good girl from next door that just happens to be naked on the […]

"If some people had their way, we’d be all bundled up with only our noses sticking out," said David Quammen from behind the reception desk of the Washington DC Museum of Contemporary Art in Georgetown. Quammen, 66, is the director of MOCAdc and founder of the Figure Models Guild of Washington, DC. Flowers And Meat […]

J’ai toujours aimé dessiner. Du plus profond de mon enfance, mes souvenirs sont peuplés de crayons de couleurs, de feutres et de tubes de gouache. C’est à cette époque que je découvris, émerveillé, les croquis soigneusement rangés dans le carton à dessins appartenant à ma sœur de douze ans mon aînée. Paul Laurenzi Paul Laurenzi […]

Subdivision Art Gallery in Long Island City, NY, celebrated its first year through a group show called "Domestic Residue." David Melrose’s installation has both inspired and lent its title to the show. His piece–a recognizably modern structure in a cross-section view–provokes insight into the inner workings of the larger structures that we now call "home." […]

Last Gulp Publishing and Grand Central Press present The Saddest Place on Earth, a retrospective of the past five years of Camille Rose Garcia’s work. Her unique style uses luscious color compositions and a heavy lean on the narrative to really pack a punch. The characters she creates are Ed Gorey meets Warner Bros. meets […]

The spectacle of today’s media is dominated by imagery of war and celebrity. The most subversive images might include such atrocities as a photograph of Drew Barrymore without her make-up, stripped of her red carpet status. Truly subversive and grotesque images of war rarely exist (of the Thomas Hirschhorn vein) because, although freedom of speech […]

Voltaire took great pleasure in building straw men from the excessive personalities on parade during his time. He would stand the straw men on their heads and with barbed wit cut to ribbons their self-serving and simple visions of the world. With that same skill he dissected the clowns posing as royals. He displayed their […]

In 1993, the Chinese artist Fang Lijun was first shown in Berlin as a participant in the group exhibition "China Avant-Garde" where he presented his flashy colourful paintings. Fang who represents modern China with his works was back in town with a solo exhibition of his woodcuts and drawings at the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin Museum of […]

The inhabitants of Buenos Aires are called portenos and they refer to their city as the Big Apple. The similarities with the north-east Big Apple do not end there. Like New York, Buenos Aires is a checkerboard of neighborhoods. The city has 22 barrios. The biggest is Palermo, home to J.L. Borges, which is subdivided […]