Come summertime, New York art world pundits, aficionados and scribes turn to the surrounding provinces for action. The occasional solo exhibition or outstanding thematic group show within the boundaries of Gotham may yet surface, but, on the whole, the pen points out of bounds, as it were. We investigate the smallish museums in Westchester and […]

As museum and historian take a revisionist approach to the modernist canon, one area that has provided an interesting point of reinvestigation lies in the area of American Abstract Expressionism and abstract painting in general. Ann Gibson writing in her groundbreaking work Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics observes that many of the problems that have limited […]

The playwright John Patrick Shanley commenting on his own work says "Defiance is a necessary step in the life of an individual and in the life of a nation, but it is an intermediate step." Understanding the play as a step in part explains its shape and size, short, sharp and inconclusive. The Few, the […]

When you first walk into Hun Gallery the giant windows that overlook West 33rd Street appear like some ethereal stage production. The space, which features a large main gallery and an adjacent smaller gallery, is in an especially auspicious location in midtown Manhattan. Promise Cecilia Muhlstein Suha Sin, Threshold – The edge of time, 2002. […]

Samuel Beckett’s masterwork, Waiting for Godot, is easier to parody than to describe and devilish to enact. It’s about loneliness and abandonment, about time and memory, in the famous wisecrack, it’s about "nothing happening twice." More respectfully, Godot is an utterly spellbinding and sad poem of our human dilemma, as moving now as when it […]

The Starn twins began their careers by expanding the possibilities of photography. They revealed a truth that was never spoken of in polite circles: the fact that a photographic image is on a support made of paper. They folded, ripped and taped their photos to reveal the true nature of the medium, and they then […]

When walking into Galerie Lelong to see Alfredo Jaar’s most recent work, one immediately notices something missing. In the heart of Chelsea, in a gallery surrounded by other galleries that present themselves as temples of modern art, there is strangely almost nothing on the walls or any freestanding sculptures. Muxima Andrzej Lawn Alfredo Jaar, Muxima, […]

First exhibited in 2003 at the Station Museum in Houston, Texas, Made In Palestine has found a new venue here in New York City. Drawing over 3,000 viewers in just three weeks, the collection of Palestinian artwork comes at a time when a Hamas-led government has taken over the Palestinian Authority, and calls to completely […]

"Errr… I’m not sure I totally understand what you guys do." is something we often hear, particularly with respect to our media remixing work using audiovisual sampling. Most people understand about music and sound samples; but when you add moving images into the mix, it seems to confuse matters. Addictive TV Courtesy of artist "Errr… […]

São Paulo-based, Edouard Fraipont produces a series of phantasmagoric photographs which explore re-conceptions of body and self. Through negotiations of time and light inherent to the photographic medium he creates an enquiry in to the ways in which a being can distance itself from its existence as a unit. The Odd Geometry that is Time […]