A new exhibition of the work of Japan’s premiere artist, Yayoi Kusama, appears at Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland, 6 April – 16 May 2004. Yayoi Kusama’s entoptic art By Klaus Podoll, Frank Schneider, Takuji Hayashi   Yayoi Kusama         A new exhibition of the work of Japan’s premiere […]

To meditate, the mind must be emptied and the trials and tribulations of the day replaced with a more singular focus or image—a still image, a challenging task in our faced paced city. A Quiet Space in a Busy City: Meditation in New York @ Broadway Gallery By Lori Ortiz       Instalation View […]

Paintings are some of the last handmade and therefore valuable objects in our culture. This is even more true when the paint is replaced with gemstones. A Gem of a Painting By Simone Cappa   “Butterflies”, 24″x24″       Paintings are some of the last handmade and therefore valuable objects in our culture. This […]

Every age has what is usually called" modern art." It is the art that – abandoning the misleading road of imitation of reality – reaches the depths of the abstract. Giordano Pozzi: Constructing Emotions By Robert C. Morgan     “Wail” 2003. 1/4″ Painted Square Steel Rod, 122″ x 47″ x 78″ / 310cm x […]

As a key player in the Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Alighiero e Boetti developed a distinct style grounded in cultural investigation and the creative concept. Alighiero e Boetti: The Interweaving of Time and Place By Dominique Gonfard     Untitled (January-December), 1986. Pencil on Paper mounted on board in 12 parts, […]

In December of 2003, DJ Danger Mouse began the counterintuitive task of mixing black and white. Appropriately Grey By John Eischeid     By Margaret Maloney     In December of 2003, DJ Danger Mouse began the counterintuitive task of mixing black and white. He wittily entitled the result "The Grey Album," since it was […]

I stumbled in, sick as a dog, on the last day of Thomas Nozkowski’s exhibition at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Thomas Nozkowski – Examined Abstraction By Matthew Bourbon     Untitled (7-8), 1992. Oil on canvasboard, 16″ x 20″     I stumbled in, sick as a dog, on the last day of Thomas […]

Dum Dum Grown-Up Art features nine not so dum dum artists. Dum Dum Grown-Ups By Louise Patrick       Josh Kil, Performance is Job One, wall painting       Dum Dum Grown-Up Art features nine not so dum dum artists. Reading the press release, one might expect to see a bunch of illegible […]

Make it New! (Ezra Pound). A marvellous night took place at the Estorick Collection in London in the first week of February when staff and invitees celebrated the opening of the museum’s exhibition "Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920". The Past is Blasting the Future! By Selma Stern   David Bomberg, Ju-Jitsu, 1913.   […]

Sad news to report: Monique Goldstrom lost her long battle with cancer and passed away at age 56 in mid-February. Spring PICKS By Christopher Chambers       David Fried, Rainscape no. 21, 2004, C-Print on Diasec, 37″x50″.          Sad news to report: Monique Goldstrom lost her long battle with cancer and […]