Getting To Know James Rosenquist Again Charles Giuliano James Rosenquist smiles while recalling studio days in the 1960s�photo by Charles Giuliano, 2002 I’veknown James Rosenquist; but to know the man is not to know the man. I know somethings, but that’s about it. Nor do I know the work better than someone whonever met the […]

Scavengers- Ingrid Calame and Joseph Cornell Jennifer Reeves style="mso-spacerun: yes">     Does the meansjustify the ends in the making of art? Does a sound theory alone make theobject demonstrative? Is the artist a mute data provider and the viewer solelyresponsible for the revelation? Holding that art is capable of far more thansatisfying the urge for decorum […]

Lemler Lost among the City Danielle O’Steen Ghosted Message, 36″ x 30″, 2000, polaroid transfer on watercolor paper JoanLemler’s current show at the Broadway Gallery fills the space with photographsof textured emptiness, allowing the viewer to feel as if they are the mostrecent human presence in these scenes. Sinewy and antique in appearance, manyof the […]

The Art of Torture Joao Ribas A replica of a cell at an art show in Madrid. Image of Salvador Dali.   style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>From the pages of the Spanishnewspaper El Pais erupted a disturbing anecdote. Jose Milicua, a notedart-historian, uncovered evidence that “anarchist” forces used modern art totorture prisoners during the Spanish Civil War. Surfacing at […]

Gloria Kisch’s Thee Bells James Kalm Gloria Kisch, Bell 10   "Bells are of the sky. Bells are of nature. Itwasn’t a conscious decision, they just came out." This was thespontaneous response to a question I asked Gloria Kisch regarding her reasonsfor creating her new series of sculptures, "The Bells." I’d beenthinking about these works […]

Julie Karabenick’s Systematic Freedoms Vivek Narayanan  Composition 37, acrylic on canvas, 28″ x 28″, 2003 JulieKarabenick’s is a careful, unsentimental mind in the midst ofself-clarification. In each set of her explorations, one finds emotionaldepth, unity, and a complex internal conversation between subtly-wrought colorsand shapes. The artist has developed a long process by which a work […]

Rosemarie Trockel’s Suspicious Kitchens Vivek Narayanan Rosemarie Trockel, Spleen exhibition images [[Sourcelink for images: http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs/trockel/]] style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>In the mercurial tradition of thoseGerman grandmasters – Gerhard Richter or Joseph Beuys – who came before her,Rosemarie Trockel has stayed one step ahead of the critic’s easy gloss byembracing apparent contradictions, and by working obsessively through a widerange of […]

A Mythology for Our Times L.P. Streitfeld  A Mythology for Our Times – L.P. Streitfeld   Once in ageneration an exhibition comes along that sums up an age that we are living. TheMasters Series: Marshall Arisman at the School of Visual Arts is a rare exhibition thatelicits a welcome visceral reaction. The lack of identifying […]

SWEETLY THE AIR FLEW OVERHEAD Louisa Buck Cathyde Monchaux’s artistic language has always been rife with paradox. Immediate,distinctive and utterly particular to her; it is both sharply-focused andwide-reaching, extending way beyond issues of style to permeate all manner ofmedia from photographed landscape to recorded sound as well as theintricately-wrought floor and wall pieces for which […]

Thoughts on the Polish Artistic Present Slawomir Marzec   Tomasz Domanski, “Forest Movement accorging to Macbeth.” Video, 2001; Image courtesy CRP Oronsko.     Theexhibition, "Sztuka II RP," in Oronsko, Poland presents a somewhatatypical view of Polish art from the 1990`s, and goes across ranking lists and"official" interpretations. One saw there the work of alreadywell-known […]