"We are not afraid of the future," declared Tomas Bata, the famous (and to some, infamous) Moravian entrepreneur. "The shoemaker to the world" and his synonymous descendants not only manufactured shoes, but societies, each a facsimile of Bata’s own town of Zlin, the heartland of his Empire. Future Tensed Mitchell Miller courtesy of the artist […]

From October 21, 2005 through January 29, 2006, The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art was one of the most significant exhibitions of the Albright-Knox’s recent history. Not Just Another Brick in the Wall Erin Scime Xu Bing, Ghosts Pounding the Wall, 1990-1991. Installation: rice paper, ink, soil, and mixed media. Image courtesy Xu Bing Studio. […]

Stepping into a dark room was what I least expected from Olafur Eliasson’s new exhibition "Motion Notion," considering his acclaimed The Weather Project, a representation of the sun and sky in the Turbine Hall, from 2004 at the Tate Modern. Magic with light, water and a sponge (forget the smoke and mirrors) Janna Schoenberger Olafur […]

King Tat is a newly commissioned installation by Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, UK. Even before arriving at the gallery, one question arises: who was King Tat? Is he a composite of peoples, of people who the local newspaper report as being found dead surrounded by a lifetime […]

In 1887, LL Zamenhof published a book in Russian called Unua Libro (First Book) under the name Doktoro Esperanto. His goal was to create a universal second language that would lead to the lofty ideal of global peace and understanding. Retracing History Vanessa Garcia William Kentridge making Balancing Act (Fragment for Georges Melies), 2003. Courtesy […]

Vibrantly orbiting poised subjects, drizzled liberally onto canvases or brushed violently, colored paint is essential to making art pop. And no one understands the liquid rainbow better than New York City based artist, Olan. You Bring Light In Monica Colbert Olan, God Made Me Gay. Mixed media, 60x72x1.5 inches. Vibrantly orbiting poised subjects, drizzled liberally […]

Contemporary art is as simple as it is complex. The exhibition "Frequency" presented at the Studio Museum in Harlem is only one recent exhibition that continues to reinforce why and how we must continue to interrogate who and what our society values and why. Wavelength� Horace Brockington Hank Willis Thomas, Liberation of T.O.: Ain’t no […]

However, the artists in "Frequency " and reflect through their the works is less the need to correct black representation as it is to speak to they very issues of politics of dislocations, temporary experience of exile, displacement, authentic, in which race space is only one component. Wavelength (#2) Horace Brockington However, the artists in […]

The group of nine emerging talents in "TINTA" on view at Galeria Leme, form a network of dialogues and relationships; dynamic and inquisitive, their grouping allows space for alternative and enlightened juxtapositions–formal and conceptual–which remind one that there is nothing like (fresh) paint–tinta– to spark conversation. Dialogues In Paint Camila Belchior Rigo Schmidt, ohne Titel, […]

Nobody Works is an expanding art collective exhibiting contemporary art in group exhibitions by medium. I started Nobody Works in August of 2005 with the ideal that artists could make art all the time as opposed to having to work at a day job. Nobody Sculpts Leslie Wright Christy Singleton, Caren, 2005. Silicone, feather, cloth, […]