When walking through Berlin’s streets last week, where spring was trying hard to be noticed, one could get the impression that the German capital had gone Finnish for a while. Film Secection: Moi Suomi- Finnish Film and Culture Festival , Berlin By Tobias Verlende     Moi Suomi- Finnish Film and Culture Festival , Berlin […]

"Dialogues in Abstraction: East and West" at Tenri Cultural Institute is a group exhibition that illuminates current cultural exchange in the aesthetics of abstract art. Review of "Dialogues in Abstraction: East & West" John Kaufman       Orlanda Brugnola, Amaranth Vision, (detail), 2002. Acrylic on canvas, 70″x 64″.     “Dialogues in Abstraction: East […]

In the Moment with Kristin Baker Randy Gladman Kristin Baker, The Unfair Advantage, 2003         Thecrowd at Deitch Projects, one of the few vital galleries in SoHo to haveresisted the exodus to Chelsea, had already spilled out onto Grand Street bythe time I arrived.  This was thefirst Friday of the 2003 art […]

Letter From Valencia: Francis Bacon Ginger Danto       2. Francis Bacon, Fragment of a Crucifixion, detail, 1950.       style=’mso-tab-count:1′>                        “I’mlike a grinding machine. I’ve looked at everything and everything I’ve seen hasgone in and been ground up very fine. Images breed images in me.” style=’mso-tab-count:4′>                                                                                               style="mso-spacerun: yes"> – Francis Bacon (in […]

Terrible Toys Invade Manhattan Christina Rogers, Sandra Ogle, and Peter Campbell       Emma-Louise, New Orleans Abortion. Photo by Jonathan Gorman.         Severed doll-heads andgrimacing clown faces stared down from the walls of the CBGB Art Gallery on theBowery. Curious visitors shuffled in to see these bizarre and sometimesgruesome images, which […]

Making Out with Johan Zetterquist Cil�ne Andr�hn             To anycelestial body, life is nothing but an illness – at least according to theSwedish artist Johan Zetterquist, based in Berlin. After experiencing aninstallation signed “Zetterquist” one tends to agree. In the peculiarlyZetterquistian universe, the rules of evolution result in some extraordinaryconsequences. […]

From a Table on Avenue C: Ergogenics 101 Austin John Marshall Sitting at myvantage point at the corner of 7th St and Ave C with Uberbabe, my #1 model, Iwas reading  War Against theWeak, Edwin Black’sscary/brilliant new book (Four Walls Eight Windows) which reveals attempts inthe 1920’s to breed a blue-eyed, blonde master-race in the […]

The Little Things Carmen Bethencourt       Megan Cump, Snowball Fight, 2003, C-print. The concept behindthe current Berliner KunstProjekt exhibition, “BiNo-ScApEs”, is the importanceof different perspectives. The curator, David Adamo, invited around eightyartists to create miniature paintings in mixed media formats which were thenarranged at the far wall of the gallery to be viewed […]

John Perreault Seascapes Daniel Rothbart John Perreault seascapes capture something very essentialabout the sea. They are works that embody the quicksilver changes of the ocean,encompassing both its spatial and metaphorical complexity. Through calligraphicmarks with sand and binder, painted on found seascapes and plywood panels,Perreault evokes natural rhythms of the tide, brine on the crest of […]

The Art Couple John Perreault       Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, The Empty Museum, (inside view) 2004. Installation, sound, light.       When an established artist becomes an artist couple, whatdoes this mean? Does the work change? Why is it always the wife who gets addedon to the famous husband’s career, and when […]