Drawing is one of the most sensitive mediums. Hanging Interpretations By Beata Patricia Pac Anna Socha VanMatre, In Time In Between – Smoke, 2003-2004, 7 panel installation, graphite/pastel/synthetic paper, 200×110 in. Drawing is one of the most sensitive mediums. It directly reflects the artist’s emotions and gestures through connecting the artist to the work without […]

In a corner gallery of PS1 at the new Spring exhibition, a small white cube floats in the center of the gallery as white cube. Interact with This: Jeppe Hein and Michael Lin at P.S.1 By James Westcott     “Michael Lin’s installation, ‘Grind” in the P.S.1 cafe, embraces         In a […]

Sol Le Witt defines the concept of Sol Le Witt, his work, and his contribution to and role in contemporary art when he says, "conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. Sol Le Witt’s Rational Mysticism By Mark Daniel Cohen       Sol LeWitt, Incomplete Open Cube 7/31, 1974. baked enamel on aluminum. 40″ […]

If all people are ultimately thought to be information, then such categories as race, class, and gender may be stripped of their cultural charge. SCI-ART: Mapping Movement By M-1000       Anita Wong, Techno-Scientific Ice Age, Video Art and Installation, 2003.       If all people are ultimately thought to be information, then […]

It was a balmy August evening in 1957. Let Them Eat Cake By Charles Giuliano     Ann Lislegaard, Corner Piece-The Space between Us, 2000-2003. Architectural sound/light installation. Courtesy the artist and Murray Guy, NY, NY. Photo courtesy of Mexico.       It was a balmy August evening in 1957. At midnight the guests […]

The first time I saw "My Lonesome Cowboy" by Takashi Murakami I nearly shit. Takashi Murakami Talks about "Tokyo Girls Bravo" By Aaron Zimmerman     Chiho Aoshima, Untitled, 2004. Dimensions variable, Edition of 3. Copyright 2004 Chiho Aoshima /Kaikai Kiki. Co, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery & KaiKai Kiki Studio […]

Alan Sonfist is perhaps the ultimate purist of the Earthworks movement. THE BUSINESS OF ART: The Earthwork as a Commodity By Christopher Chambers Alan Sonfist, Burning Forest, Santa Fe, NM. Santa Fe Art Institute. 10 ft. x 20 ft. 2002. Ghosts of North America’s forest fires. Alan Sonfist is perhaps the ultimate purist of the […]

We’ve all been guilty at one time or another of letting our minds wander and making rapid associations when viewing art, often at the expense of experiencing the art. Admit it: sometimes we don’t even see the art at all. Moved: Moving or Immobile? By Christina Vassallo       Mowry Baden, Vancouver Room, 1973. […]

An installation by Kelie Bowman and Sto in Williamsburg’s Cinders Gallery, "Underneath the Roof We Built from the Trees We Run Between" is one of the best, if little, things I’ve seen recently. The cozy exhibition space of Cinders is resized by a "room inside the room" built specifically for this exhibit. Sto’s side of […]

David Byrne: When I sit I always have to try to remember to be near the microphone because it’s not like The Mike Douglass show or something like that where they have the microphone on your neck. Although, lately, I’ve been learning sort of to yell at it from a distance. Jeff Koons and David […]