Author Archives: jolanta

It was a quiet opening for a quiet work. Down at Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, thousands crowded the piers to watch October National Day fireworks bounce off the night sky, but at 1a Space in To Kwa Wan, a boat made of mirrors reflected only an empty room. Despite holiday fanfare elsewhere, Cattle Depot’s latest […]

The Video Wind Chimes is a public artwork/video installation that connects the movement of the wind to the revelation of the pervasive electromagnetic fields that inhabit the atmosphere, particularly those that are encoded and transmitted as part of broadcast television. The piece consists of four video projectors mounted inside of winged housings, suspended 20′ above […]

On October 16, I attended Photo New York–an exciting event, the walls were filled. Even though the scale of the fair was not so large, there was an enormous variety of work: vivid colors, and large format images immediately caught my eye. The Image Hunter: capturing dreams By Sejin Cheong On October 16, I attended […]

Biblically speaking, museum architecture, is the most exciting and provocative thing about the artworld today. Architecture Is the New Art: The New Museum of Modern Art By Edward Rubin Architecture Is the New Art: The New Museum of Modern Art By Edward RubinComposite photo of the renovated and expanded Museum of Modern Art, 54 Street […]

Edvard Munch’s The Scream has seemingly resurfaced from its daring midday theft from the Munch Museum in Oslo last August. Theatrical Openings By Catherine Krudy Theatrical OpeningsEdvard Munch’s The Scream has seemingly resurfaced from its daring midday theft from the Munch Museum in Oslo last August. It reappeared in the penthouse of the Roger Smith […]

A beautiful young woman, thirty going on sweet sixteen, Cynthia von Buhler, is selling her body in an exhibition "Cynth-O-Matic" at the Dollhaus Gallery in Williamsburg, from April 10 through May 8. Cynthia von Buhler Is Selling Herself, Cheap By Charles Giuliano     “The Artist” detail       A beautiful young woman, thirty […]

Upon close inspection, the cartoon-like figures in Australian artist Cameron Hayes’ large-scale paintings are definitely not meant for children. Squirming Derangement in Icicle Blue By Danielle O’Steen   Hayes, In the South Pole the explorers were so afraid of not having enough food for winter that they starved to death in the summer, 2002. . […]

Seeping through the surfaces of Christoph Morlinghaus’ impeccably crafted photographs is a profound and infectious irony that reveals, rather than creates, the uncanny presence of mortal consciousness inherent in the fissures of our built environment. Empty Spaces and Filled Meanings: Christoph Morlinghaus @ Roebling Hall By Denise McMorrow     “TWA (Tunnel).” C-Print mounted on […]

On the last page of the tenth anniversary issue of the Utne Reader appeared a photograph of five nude women. Celebrating Fat Attitudes By Lori Don Levan   Laurie Toby Edison, Debbie Notkin, April Miller, Carol Squires, Queen T’hisha and Robyn Brooks, 1994, gelatin silver print.       On the last page of the […]

Frost Activity, the title of Olafur Eliasson’s latest one-man show in Iceland, incorporates a paradox of sorts. Frost Activity: Chilling Icelandic Art Hafnarhus, Reykjavik Art Museum By Isabelle Schiavi     Olafur Eliasson, Frost Activity, 2004. Installation, Reykjavik Art Museum. Photo: Ari Magg       Frost Activity, the title of Olafur Eliasson’s latest one-man […]