Author Archives: jolanta

Desiring Science, Part II Kirk Hughey Technologicalprogress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal. …….AlbertEinstein "Itis for the painters to find something new" ……NielsBohr Conquest,control and domination have been an underlying theme that has propelledEurasian civilization from its inception in the Athenian polis. These motiveswere concerted against a nature perceived as […]

Still Smouldering Harriet Zinnes The Fire Under the Ashes: fromPicasso to Basquiat focuseson Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Gaston Chaissac (1910-1964), Jean Dubuffet(1901-1985), and Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949). The works were shownearlier in the year at the gallery’s booth at the Basel Art Fair, and theirfigures and forms have been largely drawn from tribal art, “art brut,” streetart […]

November PICKS Chris Chambers It was a blast attending the inaugural for Fusion Arts Museum on Stanton Street on the Lower East Side last month. Inaugural is almost a misnomer, because the place has been there since the early eighties, “back in the day. ” But now it’s going to be open to the public […]

Thoughtful investigations Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg  The title Obstacles and Disguises covers an ambiguous political and thoughtful scenario unfolded in video and sculptural installations, a new show by Swedish artist Charlotte Gyllenhammer. Her latest work (‘Observers’ a portrait of the kidnapping and release of the wealthy John Paul Getty III’s son) was shown at Moderna Museet in […]

A Celebration of Regurgitated Domestica Jason Benjamin It took a shrug and a touch of cheerful humility to get inside the doors to Jessica Stockholder’s Table Top Sculpture show at Gorney Bravin & Lee. How many sunny Sundays have I spent stepping over similar disposable plastic clusters at a sidewalk sale while tossing a sympathetic […]

Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Frances Morris The early 1980s were significant for another reason: the relocation of her studio from the basementof the family’s Chelsea brownstone to a vast industrial space in Brooklyn– immense enough to accommodate not only her earlier work but also to accumulateand hoard […]

The Radiant City Achille Bonito Oliva The interest shown by art in the city and its ever more complex development has been one of themain themes of the 20th century. It was toward the end of the eighties thatartists began to pay particular attention to urban space, seen above all asa disjointed landscape, into which […]

Odyssey Of A Cockroach Yoko Ono Twentieth Centurywas a century in which human experiment in cruelty reached its height. In othercenturies, we still had an excuse to kill each other either for self-defenseor for our survival. In the twentieth century, we as the human race were wiseenough to not have to be cruel. Still, the […]

Barb�s, Paris, France. David Bellos Behind the “Garedu Nord”, north railway station you go up to the « Place du Tertre», at Montmartre, which is for painters, musicians, and visual artistsa beloved hill shelter. Django Reinhart and many other jazz musicians used toplay in tiny cafés in the forties and the fifties and they tamed […]

“Jump” Deshant Paul Imagine this: youare young, you are intelligent, and you are gorgeous. Not too hard, is it? Nowimagine you have a cause worth fighting for. This is a little more difficult,no? Now imagine you have a place to go where there are other young, intelligent,beautiful people talking about the same concerns and fighting […]