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Eastward Bound: Art in an Unlikely Place Christina Vassallo     Johnston Foster, Untitled, 2003, color pencil and ink on paper, 11″ x 14″. Image courtesy of Rare Gallery.       The New York City art scene isgrowing constantly.  The escalatingcommercialization of the Manhattan gallery industry spawned an eastwardmovement beyond the institutionalized districts of […]

The Crossroad that Points Both Back and Forwards Thalia Vrachopoulos, Ph.D       Sungho Choi, American Pie, 1996         At the Crossroad is a 20-artist show that opened this past October at theGallery Korea to celebrate the centennial of Korean immigration to the UnitedStates. Featuring artists working in and around New […]

At Billyburg Andres Jauregui     Picture of Billyburg       Theycall it “Billyburg”. Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s fabled treeless garden of hip, isnot as gray as one might expect. Toy–sized maples and green ginkgoes garnishthe ruddy urban fa�ade of brown, red and yellow brick. Almost every buildinghas a stoop. Television antennae spike the three and […]

To Be Political It Doesn’t Have to Be Stereotypical Ra�l Zamudio             TheodorAdorno once wrote that the effect of capitalism’s conversion of art into anindustry was the museum’s transformation into a mausoleum; that museumsconsequently became the sepulchers of art. However, Adorno’s observation ofcapitalism’s power should not have only been targeted […]

Sin City Oasis Lori Ortiz       Marlene Tseng Yu, Milky Way, 1996, Oval 120″ x 216″ (305 x 549 cm), Acrylic on canvas.           At a closing poetryreading honoring Marlene Tseng Yu’s magnificent painting exhibit at the LasVegas Art Museum, Donald Kuspit proposed a future with “islands of art…oases.”In […]

Fusion of the Oriental Mind and the Western Material: Art of Meeok Paik Sae-Kwan, Oh         Meeok Paik, Psychokinesis, Acrylic on canvas, 89.4 X 145.5 cm         The early worksof Meeok Paik contained images of nature, with vague and deliberate referencesto their sources. Paik’style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>s approach to the nature began […]

Oppressive performances by Yael Davids Edo Dijksterhuis Yael Davids, Aquarium. Photo by Johannes Schwartz A man with his head stuckinside a filled aquarium. A girl confined in a hollowed out mattress that lookslike a quilted tomb. A boy lying on a bed with his head in a pillowcase. Theperformances of Yael Davids are certainly not […]

The Miami Cilantro – Basel Twist: Notes from the Not-So- Underground Lee Klein     Will Pappenheimer, Pome Kit, at the Miami Basel Art Fair           One can stillwitness an overly smug Jeffrey Deitch wandering out of the Delano – as if theglamour of the surround could make his personality more […]

Second State Aaron Yassin       Randy Stoltzfus, The Garden Gate, Oil on canvas, 96″x120″         The first timeI visited Randy Stoltzfus’ studio in Brooklyn it was late in theday, nearly dusk. The light level was low, particularly as the studio had onlya block of windows facing north. I began looking […]