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As economic development has taken top priority in national policies, China has changed. Its people have changed even more. Glorious Life — Artist Statement By Wang Qingsong, 2004 “Follow Me,” 120x300cm, C-print, 2003, Courtesy of the artist and Courtyard Gallery in Beijing. As economic development has taken top priority in national policies, China has changed. […]

One thing is certain about the flowering of German Expressionism: the blossoms lacked joyous exuberance. BLUE COUNTRY By Tony Zaza, The Roving Eye       Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Postdamer Platz, 1914, oil on canvas           One thing is certain about the flowering of German Expressionism: the blossoms lacked joyous exuberance. […]

Working Together Trebor Scholz The following text introduces issues that are at the center of the conference"networks, art, & collaboration" to take place April 24/ 25, 2004at the State University of New York at Buffalo: http://freecooperation.org. FAQs Do we feel threatened in the face of terrorism? Is that the reason for the renewedattention to collaborative […]

DAS IST NICHT KALB Rocco Alberico In September of 2003, I was invited to show at the Berliner Kunstprojekt in Germany.My wife and I decided to extend the trip to take in the cities of Dresden ineastern Germany and Prague in the Czech Republic. What I assumed would be a pleasant European vacation, became a […]

Deth P. Sun’s Bitter News of the Innert Life Jamey Hecht  Deth P. Sun paints small pictures of haplesscreatures in stark, elemental environments like clouds or still water or thesea. They’re simple, uncluttered and exquisitely heartbreaking oil paintingson masonite, that bring the visual sweetness of cartooning far out from thatgenre, to deploy it in a […]

PLAMEN DEJANOFF:“As by an invisible hand” Plamen Dejanoff   has had an active career in Europe, although he remains a relatively young artist.Born l970 in Sofia, Bulgaria, the artist presently lives and works in Berlin.He recently had exhibitions at Pinksummer Contemporary in Genoa, Italy, the ProjectSeries at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and is currently […]

“Peace as an Universal Language,” a exhibition at the Broadway Gallery, NY Jamey Hecht and Kyong-Ha Yim Since art emerges from the unconscious, it affords an alternative to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that plague the waking mind each hour. But the subject matter of the same art often cries out from the […]

Energy and Entropy In his post-formalistessay titled Painting as Model (1993), the art historian and critic Yve-AlainBois asks, “What is it for a painter to think?” This is an especiallyinteresting comment when discussing the subject of pure abstraction. Since thereis no discernible signifier that one can detect in non-figurative work, the questionthat Bois raises is […]

Leonid Lerman, "The Memories of Ruination" Mark Daniel Cohen I met a travelerfrom an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that […]

The Intricate Precision of the Field ; The Kabbalistic Mysticism of Robert Mark Daniel Cohen William Blake mayhave been right. The first and most mystical of the English Romantic Poets maywell have been correct in preferring the exactitude of the line to the vaguenessof the color field. For Blake’s concern was not over the proprieties […]