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British artist David Somerville has been described as145;Basquait for our times, owing to his formidable skill as a colorist and his ability to express the narrative of life on canvas. Restoring the Spirit By Mathew Fletcher-Jones David Sommerville. 12.10 Zen. 2003. Acrylic on canvas. 152×175 cm / 60×69 in British artist David Somerville has been […]

"You don’t get to tell people how they should see something. It is only something you demonstrate. What is observation? James Turrell’s skyspace installation at PS1 By Denis G. Pelli James Turrell’s skyspace installation at PS1 "You don’t get to tell people how they should see something. It is only something you demonstrate. …If you […]

When sculptor and painter Tim Zweiback came across a piece of scrap metal from the wreckage of a demolished bridge, he was immediately struck by the anthropomorphic beauty of the discarded steel. Sculpture as Androgynous Archaeology By Kim Carpenter Tim Zweiback. Untitled, 2001 Steel and Graphite, 18″ x 29″ x 8″ When sculptor and painter […]

Review of Susan Melikian Steinsieck’s Exhibition at the Pickled Art Center, Beijing. In the Eyes of the Beholder By Atish Ghosh   Courtesy of Pickled Art Centre, Beijing     Review of Susan Melikian Steinsieck’s Exhibition at the Pickled Art Center, Beijing. Tucked away in the newly opened upper-story gallery space of the Picked Art […]

Judith Gwyn Brown has been illustrating the pages of children?s books since her early 20s. Since then, she has illustrated more than forty books and written four of her own, and her works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library and the Boston Public Library. The Mystery of […]

"An inquiry into the inner meaning of specifically modern life and its products, into the soul of the cultural body […] must seek to solve the equation which structures like the metropolis set up between the individual and the super-individual contents of life"–George Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life, 1903 Hexis Cities Beatrice Leanza Ai […]

There?s a statistic floating around that by 2015 there will be several hundred new museums in China. Some are already complete, sitting empty, some are under construction, some won?t materialize. No one knows who will run them, as there?s a dire lack of trained professionals in the field and cultural promotion is a limited project […]

# We had been warned that the —scopes, which piggyback on other fairs at various times of the year in London, Paris, New York, and Miami (its original location) were a particularly commercial brand of art fair, and that it pushed young artists and smaller galleries to center stage not out of a sense of […]

White, light, pink. These are the tones of Susan Philipsz’s minimal intervention at Malm� Konsthall. White is the architecture stripped bare, leaving the empty, white-washed space on display. Light is the sunlight that pours in from the skylight, facade windows and ceiling lanterns. A Capella Architecture Pernille Albrethsen The white gallery space of Malm� Konsthall, […]

In this two-person summer exhibition at Derek Eller that slices the gallery in two, Seth Kelly and Adam Putnam engage being and nothingness from opposing directions. Adam Putnam/Seth Kelly Jason Murison Adam Putnam, Untitled (Shadow Room III), 2005. DVD, 15 minutes. In this two-person summer exhibition at Derek Eller that slices the gallery in two, […]