Author Archives: jolanta

Adi Nes’s photographic works are a series of staged and digitally manipulated conceptual images that explore issues of gender, personal and national identity. ADI NES: AFTER IDEALISM by Horace Brockington Adi Nes’s photographic works are a series of staged and digitally manipulated conceptual images that explore issues of gender, personal and national identity. While Nes’s […]

As bookends to The Brewster Project 2002 this past summer, Linda Dennis and Pan Xing Lei presented mythic personal journeys to the public. The Sacred Marriage of Opposites: "Double History" Revitalizes the Ancient Icon for the 21st Century by L.P. Streitfeld As bookends to The Brewster Project 2002 this past summer, Linda Dennis and Pan […]

I was having lunch the other day with another critic whom I highly respect in one of West Chelsea’s 10th Avenue restaurants when the topic of conversation suddenly turned to what is "hot" in the market today. Symptomatic Non-Art by Robert C. Morgan I was having lunch the other day with another critic whom I […]

Despite the fact that Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid have already become world class stars, they don’t seem to forget Russia and regularly bring new exhibitions to Marat Guelman’s gallery. Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid. "Dmitry Tveritinov’s story" @ Marat Guelman’s Gallery. by Andrey Kovalev Despite the fact that Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid have already […]

Recently Pelagia Kyriazi exhibited work at the International Print Center New York in the exhibition The Lure of Diversity: New Prints 2002/Autumn. Pelagia Kyriazi by NY Arts   Recently Pelagia Kyriazi exhibited work at the International Print Center New York in the exhibition The Lure of Diversity: New Prints 2002/Autumn. Marilyn Kushner, one of the […]

An exhibition and catalogue… School of Visual Arts Commemorates 9/11: Art & Observance by Art & Observance An exhibition and catalogue The following is an excerpt from Lucio Pozzi’s contribution to the catalogue. (…) On the 11th of September I painted a little landscape scene, copied from the photograph of a work of mine. Strangely, […]

For the past two months Zvika Lachman has been an artist in residence at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut. Zvika Lachman by Mike Trent   For the past two months Zvika Lachman has been an artist in residence at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut. Geoffrey Hartman in his essay […]

A Twentieth Street Odyssey. November Picks by Christopher Chambers A Twentieth Street OdysseyThomas Erben Gallery had a futuristic wall painting by Vargas-Suarez Universal titled "Stardust." It looked like schematics for an interstellar spaceport � la Star Wars. Of course, with this sort of thing one always wonders, "what’s for sale here?" Conveniently, a few small, […]

Andy Warhol. This is the twenty-first century. Andy Warhol / Tracey Emin / Adolph Gottlieb by Harriet Zinnes Andy WarholHarriet ZinnesThis is the twenty-first century. This is not the age of impressionism, post-impression, or minimalism. Surrealism is still here as is realism of whatever variety, but modernism is over. Perhaps postmodernism is still here or […]

Benefit Events + parties frequently bring art and fashion together. An event like Art + Sole opened on the 25th of September, combining a launch for Bergdorf Goodman’s redesigned shoe salon with a benefit for the New Museum of Contemporary Art. On the V E R G E_ F A S H I O N […]