Author Archives: jolanta

Digging for Artist’s Books in New York Elaina Ganim New York is not the book farm that it used to be. Gargantuan publishing houses have run over the city independents. On the fringe of the fringe of small press/ no press publishing, artist’s books–where the book itself is conceived of as an artwork–thrive despite the […]

Publishing Granary’s Books: A Conversation in the Margins Pantale Xantos A retrospective of independent publisher Granary Books, "Publishing Granary’s Books: A Conversation in the Margins," will open at The University of California at San Diego’s Mandeville Special Collections Library on April 26th and run until June 27th. A unique and significant small publisher, Granary Books […]

Patrick Wilson at Los Angeles Projects Showing at The Armory Show James Scarborough Andre Breton pitied a life of presence, nothing but presence. Well, as Patrick Wilson shows, other-ness has its drawbacks too. He makes these three pieces, each with three panels, from alkyd, acrylic, oil and pigment on canvas. He titles each with a […]

The Flaneur as Botanist Raul Zamudio Miguel Angel Rios’ recent three-channel DVD piece titled, Ni me busques….No me encuentras (Do not search for me….You will not find me) (2002), is located in an interesting juncture in the artist’s trajectory. A protean path that began with painting, sculpture, drawing and works on paper which then morphed […]

News item: "The physician with a scalpel wore bright blue scrubs and a signature black fedora. The cadaver lay on a metal tray below a large copy of Rembrandt’s ‘Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp." In the former brewery in East London, the television cameras turned, a paying audience squirmed and Britain’s first public autopsy […]

The Mirror of You Absence of Gravity: Excerpts from Nuovo Spazio Italiano Fabio Cavallucci They are determined and disillusioned. They prefer MTV and mp3s to history of art and classical music. They toy with themselves and with art, having first deprived it of all its aura and drawn it closer to daily life. They do […]

Ameri©an Dre@m A Survey at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Devon Costello and Esme Watanabe What is the American dream represented in this show and whose dream is it? The politics are clear from the ironic interplay of language and symbols in the title. The "American" is a commercial trademark, the "Dre@m" is the faceless mobility […]

News from Bosnia Herzegovina: Edin Numankadic Allan Graubard Edin Numankadic is one of Sarajevo’s leading artists. In a city still emerging from the genocidal war protracted against it in the 1990s, Numankadic, by way of his person and his art, is cause for hope. A tall energetic man in his 50s, he draws you to […]

Valie Export und die Erschaffung der Wirklichkeit Claudia Recorean Valie Export, geboren 1940 in Österreich, 1991 bis 1995 Vizepräsidentin HdK Berlin, heute Professorin an der Kölner Hochschule für Medien ist eine der bedeutendsten Vorreiterinnen der Performance- und Medienkunst der frühen siebziger Jahre bis heute. Zu Recht widmet die NGBK und die Akademie der Künste dieser […]

The Flesh and Bone of Moral Theory Mark Daniel Cohen The principle of art we have inherited from Nietzsche is easily conceived. As the primary influence on aesthetic thinking for the last 100 years, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche endows us with a clear project and uncomplicated goal: Art is not a conveyance of conceptual thought […]