There is something very nostalgic about the photographs. I can recall being in the fifth grade and begging and pleading with my parents to buy me the $100 pair of sneakers, but their concern that someone would gun me down and run off with my “Jordans” was the obstacle that kept me from being able […]

Steven Psyllos: In your opinion, what is the current state of affairs in the art world as it applies to digital art? How receptive are galleries to exhibit this form, and where else do you find support? Andres Ramirez Gaviria:  The terms “digital” or “media” art have come to encompass an array of practices so […]

Nestled in the bottom floor of Williamsburg’s public art space Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn-based collective Saviour Scraps presents “Cabin Comforts,” a dual installation space and store featuring over 70 contributing artists seamlessly blending an art experience within the simulated comforts of home. “Cabin Comforts” is an alternative to the competitive art world and traditional gallery […]

When recalling the beginning of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe, vague visions of the fall of the Berlin Wall and thousands of screaming teenagers are inseparable from images of music videos on MTV that so powerfully marked that moment of transition. In a way, the two will always be linked. If the 1980s […]

Bo Yun (Li Yongcun) is among the few modern Chinese artists who, while maintaining respect for the ancient heritage of Chinese ink painting, have succeeded in integrating new ideas and techniques that give their work a contemporary feel. Bo Yun’s vertical diptychs in ink and color on paper, like ancient Chinese scrolls, are microcosms of […]

Zoe Strauss’ star has risen. After garnering notice in her native Philadelphia, Strauss was selected by curator Chrissy Iles for “Day for Night” at the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Remarkably, Strauss continues to make her work as accessible as possible, even amid a flurry of media attention, with affordable prints (every print sells for $5 each); […]

Two exhibitions of Eva Hesse’s drawings and sculptures are on view in New York City, one uptown at the Jewish Museum and one downtown at the Drawing Center. Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at The Whitney Museum of American Art, co-curated both: the Jewish Museum exhibition with Fred Wasserman, Henry J. Leir […]

At about five in the evening the skylight is brutal and I am momentarily blinded as I round the corner of a temporary wall. As I turn away from that awesome beam of light and my eyes regain focus I find myself looking at a wall covered in yellow Post-it notes. Or rather, a wall […]

The Stairs to Somewhere can be found in Liz-N-Val’s “Selected Artsites 2006” on view at Henrybuilt in Soho, NYC.  Even though these 6 inch-tall stairs, folded like an aluminum fan, do lead their tiny protagonist teetering somewhere 6 inches above the floor, the real “somewhere” to the success of this installation is the austere space […]

Hollywood. The more glittery the light, the darker the shadows in the fabric, the mass-produced dreams. The more realistic the film, the more virtual reality seems to be. You can lose yourself in both, but in the movies, the actors always show the way while reality often seems planless and lonely. Some, however, are helpful […]