The sun after the rain is much clearer than the usual, and the sunlight shines over the not yet crowded road. The rain water quietly flows into the lanes on the side of the street, mixed up with wooden sticks, paper pieces and similar waste. In the dirty rivulet a sparkling golden candy paper shows […]

Spring 2005 is full of promises for the Beijing artistic stage. The lyrical season will be true to its epithet, nurturing the development of literature and arts in Beijing. May "a hundred flowers blossom and all school of thoughts contend," when the Dashanzi art district of the city will host galleries, start-up events, a festival […]

A little Chinese girl, dressed in a white robe and a red scarf, wanders along the red walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing. A young girl feels the loneliness and sadness of growing up too fast. These are the subjects of Beijing-based artist Cui Xiuwen. Cui Xiuwen Observes One Day in 2004 Pauline Doutreluingne […]

We are going through a decisive phase of transformation, where all basic and absolute concepts, systems and models are gradually losing their value and are no longer appropriate to understand and represent reality: new solutions and new ways are thus required in order to substitute a pattern unable to meet the system needs with an […]

No artist, not Picasso, Frances Bacon, or even Andy Warhol, in many ways our American Dal�, documented their sexual obsessions, fears and anxieties as publicly as Salvador Dal�. The Great Masturbator In Retrospect: Salvador Dal� at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Edward Rubin Salvador Dal�, Little Cinders (Cenicitas), 1927-1928. Oil on panel, 25 x 19 […]

Homegrown Surrealism is not a new discovery. Ever since the 1920s, notables such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Mina Loy, Julien Levy, Peggy Guggenheim, Charles Henri Ford and Sydney Janis, to name just a few, have championed the cause. Native Surrealists in New York Valery Oisteanu John Wilde, Exhibiting the Weapon, 1945, Oil on panel, […]

If you were lucky enough be one of the invited guests to the Go-Go party at the Puck building on March 11, you were given a chance to see Julie Harvey?s latest nudes. This party, inspired by Larry Gagosian?s nickname, Gogo, was created as a parody on the art world and aimed to inject some […]

Have you ever been to a city where the entire underground infrastructure is an ambitious, ongoing art project? Welcome to the fascinating and ever-growing subway system of Moscow. This year the city celebrates the 70th anniversary of the opening of the first line of Moscow?s Metropolitan, its world-renowned metro system. Moscow Metro: 70 Years Of […]

The Southwest is not a place that I associate with the work of John Perreault. A New York City native, Perreault was a pioneer of the Street Works movement of the 1960s, and has since produced a rich and varied body of experimental art while writing poetry, art criticism, and fiction for the past four […]

In "Panorama of the City of New York. Magic Carpet, 2005," the artists Iftkhar and Elizabeth Dadi invite the visitor to look at New York from the point of view of "Orientals" and Muslims. Their installation is included in the exhibition "Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now," on view at the Queens Museum of […]