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East Brought West Alexandra Hyde The exhibitionChen Zhen. An artist between East and West currently at the Padiglione d’ArteContemporanea in Milan (until 18th May), centres around “differences withno hierarchy”. Zhen’s ethics and art are derived from travels in diversecontinents, forming his concept of “globalisation” – “thatpeople from different races can unite and live together”. Political […]

Jueves: Vortrag en el MUMOK Andr�s Ram�rez Gaviria p> Eran sobre lascinco de la tarde cuando entré en la librería del Museum Quartierpara calentarme un poco. Di el mismo paseo que acostumbro, ojeando algunos librossin preocuparme mucho por otros – perfilando, mas que nada, la aparienciadel consumidor. En la sección de las revistas, ya saliendo […]

June Picks Christopher Chambers Walking past LehmanMaupin’s stylish new Chelsea space – with its exposed brick and plywoodinterior – after attending a few openings the other night, I noticed a particularlybeautiful painting, imbued with angelic light, hanging inside.[By the way, therewas a show of plywood hung as art by I don’t remember who at Paula […]

Angiola Churchill @ the Palazzo Fortuni,Venice Dana Zeman In her recent Venice exhibition, Beyond the Garden, Angiola Churchill filledthe Venice gallery of Palazzo Fortuni with white papers patterned into labyrinths,personages, gates, and fountains, floating from above. The garden functions asa totality. The papers are luminous as they interact with the dark surroundingspace. Even the shadows […]

The Green Paintings of Lucio Pozzi Daniel Rothbart Lucio Pozzi’s new paintings are green. They are the green of pastures, apples,moss, and clovers, but they are also the green of oceans, emeralds, envy, jade,tea leaves, and the goddess Tara. Pozzi welcomes diverse interpretations of andassociations from the Green Paintings in much the same that he […]

The Happy Face of Globalization:Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art Daniela Conradi The Inspirationof the Attese, Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, lies in the 20th centuryavant-garde tradition that, in its most significant phases, found an outlet forexpression in this area of Western Liguria well known for its long-establishedceramics manufactures. Departing from the numerous noteworthy […]

Saundra Schwartzkopf’s “Mystical Graffiti” @ Broadway Gallery E Charleston Imagine worldswhere shapes become symbols not specific to any one dialogue but heard by all – saundra The composition itself becomes patterns of shape and color, lights and darksof a camouflage design. At first they seem frozen and almost still, a mentalsnapshot where each shape becomes […]

Dear Art in America: Letter on Thomas McEvilley’s Monochrome Math H. L. Resnikoff I formed my high regard for Thomas McEvilley’s illuminating insight andsolid scholarship when I read his “Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: ‘Primitivism’in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984,” so I wassurprised to see that, in his review (1) of […]

Lichtenstein on the Roof Harriet Zinnes To view art from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden of the MetropolitanMuseum of Art simply doubles the joy of viewing. Before one is the open sky inthe 10,000-square-foot open air space where uniquely tall buildings of the worldbecome airy decorative objects through spectacular views of Central […]

Michael Tracy: SCULPTURES AND INSTALLATIONS Horace Brockington Michael Tracy remainsone of the most distinctive sculptors/artists of his generation. Extremely private,but equally intense during the 80s and early 90s Michael Tracy created a bodyof sculpture that defied the minimalism and conceptual tendencies of the time.Tracy has lived in Texas for much of his life. Since l978 […]