It’s been a while since I first understood that no one can discover the contemporary French art scene simply by going to the Georges Pompidou Center. However, if you stay in Paris for, say, longer than four weeks, you can discover a lively, visceral and often subversive type of urban art. The so-called street art […]

Cold contact evangelism requires a leap of faith. It is, by definition, a method of making oneself vulnerable in the hope that a faith-based connection will occur between two strangers. Those who practice cold contact evangelism are ministers who successfully share the gospel with strangers. For those gifted in this mode of outreach, cold contact […]

Leah Oates: Please speak about your background in the arts and how you conceived Boyd Level?Jonathan Neil:  I come from an academic background. Currently, I’m a few months away from finishing a dissertation for my Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia. For a little over a year now I have been writing criticism and reviews […]

In times such as these, where the lack of true and unconventional love is a marketable commodity, where various degrees of madness, violence and corruption all over the planet are coupled with the rising prices of food, oil, rent and with the constant, diminishing power of the dollar, there is need for a high level […]

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there was Dada whose light burned briefly but brightly. What was Dada? As Tristan Tzara put it, “Dada is a state of mind. Dada is a supreme religion of truth and true feelings, feelings that can be communicated through ‘wireless telepathy.’ Dada is the collective power of […]

Upon entering the Bryce Wolkowitz gallery in Chelsea, New York, one often feels an uncanny sensation of skating the rims of a futuristic otherworldiness: a cryptic hollowed-out future void of human meaning, oddly detached yet doomed in its aura of absence of human-motivated intentionality. The pieces in Wolkowitz’s exhibitions often seem to coalesce into a […]

Marijana Bego, the ebullient director of the Ezair Gallery at the beach community of Southampton, could not have selected a more refreshing pairing for their August summer show than that of painters Dellamarie Parilli and Thomas Nuzum. Nor could the artists, both of whom live overlooking water in their home states, have asked for a […]

A silent, scentless, slick and sinuous column of smoke travels 36 meters upward from the ground into the oculus of the rotunda above it at the speed of 120 kilometers per hour, continuously disappearing into a void. That which is deemed immaterial is here material. The impact of this blurring of boundaries and certainties is […]

Leah Oates: Please describe your work in terms of your processes, themes and content?Gae Savannah: Currently I am working with Chinese bamboo plant stands, benches and other furniture. I’m stacking the benches, creating towers with light inside some of the tiers. The work references a bunch of things such as the excessive decoration and simultaneous […]

As a pioneer in digital art, Mark Napier started the potatoland.org site in 1995 and made the interactive piece Digital Landfill in 1998. I had a talk with Mark about his view on the position of new media arts, the dissapperance of the object in art and the new role of the artist.Matilde Digmann: Can […]