So, I asked Vanessa Buia, "Where’s the other artist in this exhibition?" You see, I assumed the 3’ x 4’ glossy photographs of toys were all by the same person. June Picks By Christopher Chambers Nancy Brooks Brody, “Tied Tree”. 29 x 23 inches, Pencil and gouache on paper. 2002 So, I asked Vanessa Buia, […]

Cecilia Jurado doesn’t resign herself to just looking. She knows that beyond the obscene materiality of things there exists a world she needs to explore. Chromatic Imaginings: Julio Llerena introduces emerging artist Cecilia Jura By Julio Llerena (Editor of "SpanishVogue")       Cecilia Jurado, Tripthyc: ‘Sky,” “Fog,” “2” Chromogenic color prints 40 x 40 […]

A group of people sit on an art museum bench in front of Rembrandt’s painting, Katrin Korfmann and the Esthetic of the Conscientious Fragment By James Scarborough Installation at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. 2003. http://www.katrinkorfmann.com/works/publiccubeschiphol/publiccube.html A group of people sit on an art museum bench in front of Rembrandt’s painting, The Night Watch. We see them […]

Infusing Spirit into Pop: Baptiste Ibar at the Lab – By L.P. Streitfeld Baptiste Ibar has recently emerged with a hybrid style of narrative painting that utilizes mythological components to address a crucial period of transition in global politics. Infusing Spirit into Pop: Baptiste Ibar at the Lab By L.P. Streitfeld   Baptiste Ibar, “GROUND […]

High above the Hudson River, two hours by train from Manhattan, stands Olana, a national historic site once the home of the Hudson River School painter, Frederic E. Church (1826-1900). Far Above the Hudson’s WatersBy Piri Halasz Andy Wainwright. “Olana State Historic Site”. Photo courtesy of The Olana Partnership. © Andy Wainwright       […]

When I first came to meet Trevor Schoonmaker to write this story, he asked me if I have ever listened to Fela, and when I politely said that I hadn’t heard much of his music, he immediately tossed five Fela CDs at me, and said "Take them, you have to listen to it!" FELA KUTI […]

Anri Sala’s video project, Dammi I Colori, works against the unspoken rules and formulas for creating ‘moving’ media. It shows Tirana’s changing urban facades as a manifestation of its changing socio-political climate. Moved to Stillness — Anri Sala’s Dammi I Colori By Regina Gleeson Anri Sala, “Dammi I Colori” (detail). Single channel video, 15’ 24. […]

Aaron Yassin interviews Raha Raissnia. Painting EPITAPHIOS and Performing SYSTEMS By Aaron Yassin Painting EPITAPHIOS and Performing SYSTEMS By Aaron Yassin Raha Raissnia, “0111”, Oil on Canvas, 79 x 77 inches, 2004. Courtesy of Thomas Erben Gallery Raha Raissnia (born 1968 in Teheran, Iran) is a painter of intense abstract images. Her first solo exhibition […]

Traces of Modern Structural Forms in Contemporary Art . Glass Plane, White Wall, Steel Grid By Sarah Lookofsky Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House. Images ©1997,2001 Peter G. Palumbo Traces of Modern Structural Forms in Contemporary Art The steel frames, the sparse interiors, the white walls, and their glass counterparts are structural elements that designate […]

(National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow) . Self-Portraits and Polka Dots: New Paintings by Alexandra Paperno By Marek Bartelik “Self-portrait #4″, 2002, mixed media on canvas, 100×65 cm (39″x26”) (National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow) A photo-based painting, Self-portrait #4, captures the viewer’s attention. A seven-year-old girl dressed in a school uniform looks back at […]