Sekou Sundiata has pioneered a new universal art form in his blessing the boats, a multi-media autobiographical performance piece which concluded a two-year national tour last spring at the Apollo Theater Sound Stage where the poet/playwright celebrated his homecoming. Pioneering the Authentic Interactivity of the Self Lisa Paul Streitfeld Sekou Sundiata, blessing of the boats. […]

New York’s downtown has been a nursery for experimental arts and bohemian characters for more than 100 years. One decade, from 1974 to 1984, is the subject of a not-so-subtle revisionist exhibition at two New York University institutions: the Grey Art Gallery and the Fales Library. Art Trash Institutionalized for Lots of Cash Valery Oisteanu […]

Lara Schnitger Anton Kern Gallery, 532 West 20th Street September 8 – October 8, 2005 Lara Schnitger is showing large-scale sculptures at Anton Kern Gallery that expand her exploration of the boundaries between craft and high art. This Fall in New York Michael Paulson Lara Schnitger, Betty Ford, 2005. Wood, fabric, faux fur, pins, 96 […]

Station Independent Projects Presents Dark Nature: Part 1 featuring work that focuses on the mysterious and ominous side of the natural environment. Nature is often seen as being pure and frequently has been idealized throughout art history. The work in Dark Nature: Part 1 shows nature in all of its wildness, vast and strange and […]

After the theme of the 2003 Beijing Biennale, "Originality: Contemporaneity and Locality," one would imagine that the organizers of the 2005 iteration, coming in September, would have trouble coming up with a more nebulous title. Infrequent, Involuntary triumphs Michael Paulson Wang Hongjian, Yellow River under Heaven, 2004. Oil on canvas, 127 x 254 cm After […]

Confronted with Rubens’ The Life of Marie de Medici in the Louvre, an epic sequence full of pale, voluptuous and muscular bodies engaged in mythological dramas, a young man sits on a bench and contemplates for a while. Shahryar Nashat in the Swiss Pavilion James Wescott Shahryar Nashat, The Regulating Line, 2005. Digital Video, 3 […]

Franz Graf is one of Austria´s finest living artists, who along with his countryman Helmut Federle and neighbourhood Swiss artists John M. Armleder and Gerwald Rockenschaub was labeled as one of the European Neo Geo artists in the 1980s. Still Graf has never reached the commercial heights as the other three artists have, but rather […]

London’s Economist plaza sits in the centre of town, near Bond Street where the shoppers congregate and the Royal Academy of Art where the proper English go to see art. A few of the blue-chip art galleries have their homes nearby, and tourists flock to take photographs of themselves in the centre of neighboring Piccadilly […]

Although gestural abstraction continues to be earmarked as one of the few taboo modes of expression in the contemporary art scene–barring a few exceptions, such as Cecily Brown–the work of Xavier Busquets triumphantly repudiates the ascendant dogma. Abstract Transgression Barbara Hatchett courtesy of the artist Although gestural abstraction continues to be earmarked as one of […]

London’s Economist plaza sits in the centre of town, near Bond Street where the shoppers congregate and the Royal Academy of Art where the proper English go to see art. A few of the blue-chip art galleries have their homes nearby, and tourists flock to take photographs of themselves in the centre of neighboring Piccadilly […]