Su Zi-Han’s series of paintings titled I Only Love Strangers freely expresses a strong desire and love for sex, as well as intoxication. Great changes have taken place in China over the past 30 years, which impact directly on people’s way of life, their mentality, and young people’s values. The sexual awareness of youth has […]

Originally purchased from the Native Americans of Manhattan for two ax heads, a string of beads, and a handful of nails, Governors Island was bought by a Dutchman who wanted the island for his own private use. His possession didn’t last, however, and it served as a military base for the next 200 years. In […]

About every two weeks I’ve been visiting the Warner Brother’s archive on Exposition Boulevard. I am one of the few researchers there who has no particular agenda. Basically, I write to the archivists, telling them I would like to see the earliest films in the collection, whatever they can dig up. And they serve it […]

I am an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, video, installation, and live art intervention. My work reflects on the human condition through societal and cultural constructs, playing on the tension between reality and fantasy, between the familiar and the surreal or uncanny. I use a set of components that make up the conceptual framework for […]

The process of making is the starting point for my work, in which space and point of view have been longstanding concerns as has the (female) body. In my early short films and photographs I explored the relation between the body and domestic space. I worked with photomontage in You Be Mother, Milk, and Glass, […]

My sculptures and inlaid wooden panels take viewers on a journey through the psychological landscape of the domestic interior, where the very walls and floors are charged with desire, while humdrum objects quietly smoulder in the heat of sublimated emotion. A Persian rug erupts into a lush desert oasis; a pedestal mat attempts to transcend […]

British artist Sarah Beddington’s first major New York solo exhibition, Crossing, takes place at the Dumbo Arts Center (DAC). Crossing is a site-specific, mixed-media installation responding to DAC’s ship-like interior and past maritime activity of the waterfront neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn. The exhibition’s premise draws on the story of the Experiment, the second ship to […]

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation. It is the way I confront the weight of my losses. My easel is my altar, my creations, unanswered prayers that hang in […]

The difficult game of balance always implies an interaction between two opposing elements. There is balance when two subjects accept and permeate each other, when they have the same weight. The German word “gleichgewicht” is exemplar. It includes two words: “gleich” means “same” and “gewicht” means “weight.” In the case of balance, stability is assured […]

The New Museum presented the first U.S. surveys of Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer this past summer. Double Album: Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer brings together two artists—Daniel Guzmán, born in Mexico in 1964, and Steven Shearer, born in Canada, in 1968—who use an array of visual media to explore the overwhelmingly male world of […]