Curated by Amy Hauft, "Relativity" features the works of four Virginia Commonwealth University’s artist/teachers paired with the works from VCU’s collection that inspired them. Relativity: Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA D. Dominick Lombardi Sun Tek Chung?s color photograph, The South, The South from 2005 (right) is juxtaposed with Thomas A. Daniel?s black and white photograph, Untitled […]

With his new series of wryly satirical and inventive woodcuts, Lukas Pusch takes an old fashioned medium and turns it on its head. Pusch toys with the limits of metaphorical language–turning common German expressions and puns into ruthlessly satirical images. Lukas Pusch: Endart, Berlin Paula B�ttcher, translated by Matthias Schroers Lukas Pusch, Berliner Wei�e mit […]

Using spray paints, compressors and acrylic paints thinned to a viscosity level of 19, Katharina Grosse transforms the industrial looking Solvent Space Gallery into a carnival of colorful passages and abstract splashes and shapes. Evoking works by James Rosenquist and Judy Pfaff, Grosse’s wild lines and tangles overcome the Gallery’s relatively banal, sterile architecture. Katharina […]

Olle Jonsson used to be a farmer, but when milk prices crashed in Sweden in the 1990s, he sold all his stock, land, equipment, and animals to start a new kind of cultivation: sculpture. His rickety, rusty giant works have an appropriate connection to the land and its ancient stories. Scrap metal legends Elizabeth Heather […]

This is my third trip to Beijing to participate in the exchange program sponsored by the Pickled Arts Centre. I was met at the airport by Xiao Chen, one of Li Gang’s secretaries, and we took a cab back to the arts center. Li Gang was watching a calligrapher from Taiwan, Yang Tze Yung, create […]

At about 10:00 I went to my room and read some of the new de Kooning biography before going off to sleep. I was up early to try to coordinate a side trip to Shenyang. Four phone calls and five e-mails made me realize that I was going to focus on completing my work on […]

The exhibition "Sport" at the charmingly ramshackle Socrates Sculpture Park on the water in Queens reached a perplexing, almost dada (anti) climax this Saturday. On another boiling hot day, a dozen or so snowboarder dudes hung out, mostly shirtless, around Nicholas Arbasky?s "social sculpture" of several short snowboard ramps, apparently modeled on real ones ? […]

The Taliban gutted Afghanistan of its museums, monuments, artists, and dissidents. Under their rule (1996-2001) visual arts, music, television, photographs of people, and magazines were deemed illegal. Peshawar, Pakistan, a historical trading post right over the border from Afghanistan, became a center for refugees?Human Rights watch reported that by 2001 more than 2 million Afghans […]

"We’ll see a forest of chimneys from here" Mao Zedong, Beijing 1949 Fifty years ago the Chinese city was set to become an orderly grid of danwei–of small worker units packed about the bases of glorious factories. This low, even dispersion of workers would guard against potentially corrupting bourgeois downtowns. The skyline was to be […]

Tan Dun?s exhibition Visual Music at the Shanghai Gallery of Art is a sprawling, clamoring multi-media installation that defies categorization. Tan Dun is skilled at evading labels, but most people know him as one of the most successful contemporary Chinese composers. Raised in a rural town in the Hunan province and condemned to working in […]