Author Archives: jolanta

Over the course of two days, NYU presented six different media-activists’ collectives speeches and demos, generating overwhelming excitement and catalyzing public involvement: the event was run by Digital Is Not Analog (a.k.a. D-I-N-A, an International organization born in Bologna, Italy, in 2000 and currently based in Barcelona). Performing New Realities Marco Antonini Over the course […]

In Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud draws an analogy between contemporary Rome and the structure of the mind. Rome’s topography (like the psyche) reveals a heterogeneous architecture, the deposits of historical eras, experiences, social formations, memories, institutions, fantasies, and monuments. North/South Heterotopias: Mina Cheon’s Half Moon Eyes Krista Genevieve Lynes Mina Cheon, Half Moon […]

New York City is a hub for media outlets, darling of advertising, site of urban planning gone awry, home to innumerable voices and a unique worldview. "Urban Decay" showcases artists who live in the New York City area and whose artwork is a response to their urban environment. Each of the ten artists in "Urban […]

The allure of Max Streicher’s giant kinetic inflatables lies as much in the familiarity of their form, as in their dimension. Two of the six 8 meter Sleeping Giants (Silenus), 2002, are currently on show at Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil. Being Inflatable Camila Belchior Courtesy of the artist The allure of Max Streicher’s giant […]

Having grown up in a household that took The New York Times (which I don’t read any more), I could never fathom comics. To my bookish tastes both the words and the pictures of comics seemed too simple, without being ingeniously minimal. Nor did I ever develop much appreciation of adult comics, epitomized for my […]

To ourselves we are invisible. We have holes, lenses, where other people have faces, full bodies. With playful wit, Tim Hawkinson presents the possibilities of the world as an extension of his body and of his capabilities, particularly the manual and sound-producing. Hawkinson: Artist as Center of the Universe Barbara Rosenthal To ourselves we are […]

Norma Drimmer?s work asks vital questions about the tensions involved in the creative process of art-making. Drimmer deftly explores how the spiritual side of our imagination helps to form the pragmatic reality of what we finally create. Informed by the Kabbalistic concept of the ten Sefirot?the ten forces or energies that provide a way of […]

Sleepy Haven, from 1993, by the brilliant German filmmaker Matthias Müller (b. 1961), is seductive, hauntingly poignant and powerfully abstract. A recent exhibition devoted to this single early work by Müller at the Thomas Erben Gallery afforded an ideal opportunity to explore it in detail. Matthias Muller’s Sleepy Haven Aaron Yassin Film still, from Sleepy […]

"The classroom is a sea of blood…" was the only way the teacher could explain the scene to which one of her little students had led her. That was after the girl had burst in upon her sixth-grade class as they were eating lunch. Drenched in red she announced: "The blood is not mine." Japan’s […]

As I walked on 25th Street in the direction of the A.I.R. Gallery where Katsura Okada was exhibiting her latest works, I saw a billboard on a breezeway about 30 feet above my head. The text printed on it, credited to Patrick Mimran, read, "A good work of art is something that gives you goose […]