Sóu-Lí, the Korean word for “sound,” is the theme for an exhibition presented by the School of Visual Arts and the SVA Korean Alumni Association, which includes works by 48 alumni from South Korea. Our aim in “Sóu-Lí/Sound” is to challenge viewers’ preconceptions and inspire them to explore their inner worlds with a renewed sense […]

Inspired by such photographers as Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston as well as painters Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keefe, I began to consider the world around me and sought a way to visually interpret it. Hopper’s sense of isolation and dolefulness always struck a chord with me, along with the vivid, sensual beauty […]

Most people don’t pay much attention to the ordinary scenes that happen around them everyday. In fact, most of us can’t recognize the deeper art and beautiful compositions hidden there. However, some photographers have a special eye for capturing and showing us what a surprising and wonderful world we live in. Few can do it. […]

The photographs of Dietmar Busse and Roger Ricco at Sara Tecchia Roma, New York, make for a compelling yet elusive narrative. Busse and Ricco both have in common this sense of solitude that is punctuated by an intellectual focus that runs the gamut between the romantic and stone cold aloneness. For this writing, I’ve chosen […]

Katharina Klara Jung: Your last performance took place in the Volksbühne in Berlin. What was it about?    Ragnar Kjartansson: It was a collaborative performance with my wife Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir. We were performing non-stop mega drama salon theatre in the entrance of the Volksbühne. It was called "It’s Not Your Fault." A piece made out […]

One gets a sense of the unabashed intensity of real outsider art when one sees it. The show at Andrew Edlin Gallery had so much of that hard core outsider oddness that it made me giddy. Anchoring the show is Adolf Wölfli’s Untitled, 1925. Like a magic carpet ride, Wölfli can take you to more […]

Danny Licul: When did you originally get the idea for our first project, the book?Kristen Anderson: When did I originally ask you for the drawings?DL: Early October?KA: It wouldn’t have been long before that. I’d been thinking of the feeling of belonging as an indicator of identity and unconscious driver of behavior. It came together […]

Nancy A. Ruhling: Why did you decide to exhibit your in-your-face paintings that depict the seamier side of the city in the Embassy I Theater, the gathering spot of the 1920s elite?Tom Christopher: The contrast is important. Contrasts are what New York City and my paintings are all about. I paint folks that most people […]

At CUBE Gallery, situated in the heart of historic Manchester, is an exhibition of contemporary photography that covers issues so broad that it ranges from Chinese fairytales and Buddhist thinking to the perception of female beauty in Western society and deserted institutional buildings. “Infusion” is the first group show to be undertaken by every member […]

Brash, bold, eclectic, reorienting are some of my first thoughts as I entered Kadar Brock’s painting show at BUIA Gallery. At the opening, all around the throngs of artist friends and admirers hang curious paintings by someone I would have guessed would have to be a wired, rough and torrid type. Probably a little moody […]