I grew up in a shaky old New England house. If only I could tell you the stories of our ghosts! There was history in that place: antiques resting on the dirt floor in the basement, a staircase to the attic that came loose to reveal all kinds of hidden relics, glass bottles resting in […]

The works—paintings, drawings, and constructed objects—consider the formless and the removal of narrative content. Devoid of representation, they occupy occasional and temporal sites of depiction. Undisclosed they entertain and inform contrivances of landmass, typography, and architectural configuration, embracing optical distortion in their circumvention of representational form. They draw on internal structures of mark, material, and […]

Xie Su-Zhen: As an architect, why are you spending so much time and energy making art? Cheng Da-Peng: For fun! I have to do it! Xie: Can you talk about why you engage in “sculptural projects?” Is this an act of criticism on reality or an act of reflection? Cheng: A sculptural project reminds me […]

Something arrests you when you enter Sigalit Landau’s Cycle Spun exhibit at MoMA and encounter a wall-sized projection of 500 floating watermelons. Connected by a cord and wound into a spiral, the globular fruits are drifting on the ultra-salty waters of the Dead Sea. Some of them have been split open, revealing their intensely red […]

Taitung County in Taiwan is an area where development is the slowest and population is the lowest. Most of the residents are aborigines, whose lives move at a slow pace. In a small village near the Pacific, Dulan, reside many artists. Some of them came from other cities; others are locals. They have different lifestyles, […]

As the Internet increases our dependence on imagined and parallel worlds, the barrier between reality and fiction continues to collapse. Our attachment to mass media and communications has enabled us to access a wealth of information and imagery that has perhaps diluted our sensitivity to the real. My work seeks to explore how we might […]

Louise Bourgeois surrounds herself in an enigma of drama and intrigue. Filled with violence, anger, shame, guilt, and pain, she creates work that is architectural, anthropomorphic, soft, and abject. Whether in bronze, iron, glass, or wood, both her art and sculptural language “is a Guaranty of Sanity.” A full-career retrospective of Bourgeois was on view […]

Perhaps one of the most exciting new global contemporary art scenes is Indonesia, where surprising risks are being taken by artists who are interested in merging Indonesian artistic traditions with Western currents in art practice. Nowhere is this more evident than in the bold minimalist abstractions of artist Hansen Thiam Sun, also known by the […]

Leah Oates: What does being an artist mean to you? Marlene Creates: I want to have a life full of rich experience. Of the infinite ways one might achieve that, being an artist seems to provide me with the greatest possibilities. Perhaps that sounds selfish, but many aspects of a rich life include dialogue, exchange, […]

Themes of magical realism stream through Giovanni Carlo Rocca’s work, capturing timeless moments of perfect tranquility, where photo-album memory flits in and out of waking dream. His works are splendidly layered, both formally and conceptually, and draw on assorted artists from art history, from Edvard Munch and Claude Monet to Friedrich and Klimt. His works […]