Not unlike others involved in the art world, I viewed attentively from beginning to end Ric Burns’ four hour public-television feature about Andy Warhol, admiring it initially for excerpts of 16 mm films not seen in decades (especially Chelsea Girls, which is his masterpiece), and then for insightful commentary by the critics Stephen Koch, Wayne […]

Childhood is the most uncertain period in human life, both physically and psychologically. A group exhibition, “Little Monsters,” presents four different artists whose works express an idea of children as sentimentalized creatures in uncertain reality. Selected works range from painting and drawing to silkscreen print, all with fantastical scenes and nostalgia. Maria Isabel Arango expresses […]

When creativity, philosophy and human wisdom are integrated, art, including architecture, will be born. And it will form a city, a city that will produce its own culture and generate its own civilization. Civilization has also created constant war and environmental destruction. I believe the realization of the fact that once we were all children […]

“Reconstruction” explores the many subtleties and shapes of survival and transformation using all manner of media, from painting to video and performance; the nightly news is a litany of destruction. The wreckage surrounds us—towers fall, waves crash, the world is at war and love is hard to find. But reconstruction and renewal spring eternal even […]

Sometimes it’s OK to fall in love with pretty things and the alluring paintings of LA artist Audrey Kawasaki may well merit adoration through their aesthetic appeal alone, but there is a bit more to the gorgeous fantasy characters she creates on wood panel after wood panel. Death via skull imagery abounds in her works […]

The art world, like most of the world, is a very segregated and sometimes extremely lonely place. In reaction to these surroundings, I have launched the monthly Draw-A-Thon. At this alternative art event, figure drawing is re-cast by adding narrative, theatrical and musical components, creating context and energy in public spaces. I studied art from […]

Tchera Niyego, the curator of the “White” show at the Broadway Gallery, NYC, happens to be a woman of style and substance. Luckily for me, the show lived up to what I have come to expect from her (because there is nothing worse than having to face a beautiful woman and tell her she’d better […]

Rico Frico aka Rico the butcher aka Error 404, is wearing a white apron splattered in red paint and tattooing the words “No Style Fuck” onto the ass of a girl leaning over a table covered in red satin. I’m sitting outside on the sidewalk with some people, watching the display through a storefront window, […]

For a country with a population of only 300,000, Iceland is one hopping place. Of these, three-quarters live in the capital, Reykjavik. Like the volcanic lava and rock that gives its thermal pools life and energy, Icelanders are similarly teeming with a creative force of nature that is at times freakish and awe-inspiring. The number […]

Berlin’s Brunnenstrasse opened its season this past fall with the inauguration of more than five new galleries, making it one of the most heavily gallery-populated streets in the city. However, one of the most interesting exhibitions was not associated with any gallery, but was rather the independent effort of an artist who has been living […]