The "East Village ASU" ("EVASU") Group show celebrates the inaugural re-opening of the B-Side Gallery space, which opened it’s doors first in 1983 and closed them in 1987. Those years marked the heyday of the East Village art scene, a period when the gallery’s stable included John Defazio, Bruce and Rhonda Wall, Pierre Cuvelier, Caren […]

Akira Kurosawa is the Sir Walter Scott of Japan. Just as the Scottish writer created a fascinating picture of Scotlandone based on romantic figures of highlanders and windswept cragsthat defined his nation for the rest of the world, so the Japanese director created a colorful vision of his countryemploying feudal samurai and richly painted geishathat […]

Kho Sant�’s is a delight: his commitment to painting and art studies is total; his bright enthusiasm and serious but humble pursuit of art is refreshing. The resultant abstract paintings show a talented and disciplined emerging artist. Kho Sant�’s Youthful Explorations of Balance and Dissonance By Cherie LouiseKho Sant�. Movement on blue.Kho Sant�’s is a […]

For an artist who has spent her lifetime lobbying for peace, Yayoi Kusama uses the word ‘fight’ a lot. The 75-year old artist and living legend talks about fighting to create, fighting to be original, and fighting for her artistic vision. All this talk of fighting sits oddly in the mouth of an artist who […]

Ryan Greis may pay the bills with illustration work for magazines like Cincinnati’s City Beat and New York Press, but his heart lies in less urbane locales. Employing exaggerated stereotypes and a brilliant (if somewhat dark and fractured) sense of realism, Greis has created a series of portraits and paintings dubbed "Pooptooth" that celebrate his […]

Few of today’s ‘artists’ seem fit to survive their own fame, let alone the test of time. Aural Fixation: Legacy, Legend and the Curse of Blondie By Robert J. Ricci       the Curse of Blondie       Few of today’s ‘artists’ seem fit to survive their own fame, let alone the test […]

With its 1.2 billion inhabitants, China is the world’s most populous country; 12.6 million people live in its Capital Beijing alone, 14.5 million in Shanghai. "Dynamics" and "vitality" are two prominent catchwords in modern China. Everything is bigger than life, everyone wants to be state-of-the-art, and "bigger, broader and fresher" is the way to go. […]

Though the art-market in Germany has become more and more diverse over the last 15 years, with several new fairs opening in cities like Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, Cologne still functions as its capital due to the vivid art scene in the Rhineland and its many collectors of contemporary art. KUNST KOLN, 2005: A First Look […]

This story is already over. A few seconds more and it will finally be frozen forever, a past in marble like the garden carved in stone . . . this mansion, its rooms now deserted. Remembering By Aram Moshayedi Matthew Buckingham New Amsterdam, 2003 C-print Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy Gallery, New YorkThis […]

She would have liked me to have in my room photographs of ancient buildings or beautiful places. But at the moment of buying them…she would find that vulgarity and utility had too prominent a part in them, through the mechanical nature of their reproduction by photography. Paul MacDonald Barrington’s Digital (Fine) Art By David Markus […]