Andrea Bettin is a man living a double life. While at work as an engineer, his mind is always on art, what he feels is his true purpose. And yet, Bettin’s art seems to borrow from his scientific background, or else work within its context–exploring life’s peculiarities, attending to the details of nature. Andrea Bettin: […]

Every artist struggles with the specters of the Great Artists and Writers and Other Masters whose epithets we capitalize. Skilled artists can ape the styles of their favorites, but only for a select few does appropriation become reinvention. Debra Drexler: Resuscitating Gauguin Molly Kleiman Every artist struggles with the specters of the Great Artists and […]

One image dominates "Regarding Terror: The RAF Exhibition" at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, which documents over 30 years (1968 until now) of media and art inspired by the Marxist-Moaist terrorist group the Red Army Faction of Germany. Regarding Terror Emma Pearse courtesy of the artist One image dominates "Regarding Terror: The […]

During January and February of this year, Glyndor House was the site of intensive transformation, inhabited by artists creating installations that engage the interior spaces and vistas in unlikely ways. Curating Out of Bounds Jennifer McGregor, curator Hilda Shen, Recurrent River, 2005. Ink, paper, wax, 6 1/2’x 26 1/2′. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Stefan […]

The landscape has been a persistent theme in art for centuries. As a tradition in painting, it has been practiced in both Eastern and Western cultures for many centuries. Today the cultures are no longer so distant as they one were. In the current era of cultural globalization, a new kind of synthesis has evolved. […]

Every artist struggles with the specters of the Great Artists and Writers and Other Masters whose epithets we capitalize. Skilled artists can ape the styles of their favorites, but only for a select few does appropriation become reinvention. Debra Drexler has confronted her "anxiety of influence" with clever literalism, studious particularity and playful invention. She […]

`underlining in typography anymore, so these three demands, projected onto a screen during a press conference at Columbia University to announce the launch of the new magazine VOLUME, seemed particularly emphatic and unashamedly earnest. VOLUME: Architecture is dying! So it must take over the world (in disguise!) James Westcott An early rendering of issue one […]

Coreen Simpson emerged within the context of photographers when the medium was still locked within traditional constrictions. It was a strictly male-dominated field?especially among Black photographers where certain groups such as the Kamonge Workshop adhered to some rather restrictive stylistic nuances and thematic boundaries for creating photographic art. Crucially Performative: The Photographic Art of Coreen […]

Even though Belgium is well known in the contemporary art world for its numerous collectors, its capital Brussels is still waiting for an institution capable of promoting today?s art with efficiency. Simplify, Simplify, Simplify: Jota Castro’s "Universal Exhibition" Pierre-Yves Desaive Jota Castro, Oil Shame, 2004. Even though Belgium is well known in the contemporary art […]

A blonde with a chocolate on her face. A little boy alone in a hotel room. Seals sliding from the beach into the sea. Finnish photographer and media artist Heli Rekula sets these images side by side as serial wholes in her mid-career retrospective exhibition: she questions the female body, human desire, minimalist human dramas […]