Mark Lombardi: Global (Conspiracy) Networks Uri Dowbenko Mapping criminal corporate-government connections is a dangerous occupation. Exposing the players and their front companies is even more hazardous. These are the subjects of Mark Lombardi’s art and the hidden global realities of money and power. His artwork, literally as well as figuratively, connects the dots of international […]

"Spirited Women" Enliven the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center’s Fall Season Linda Rubinstein On view in the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center’s maingallery through December 31 is the exhibition Spirited Women: Ten Vermont Artists. The ten artists from throughout the state were chosen as finalists for an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in […]

Memento: Soledad Arias and Madeline Djerejian at CUCHIFRITOS, NYC Berit Fischer style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:windowtext’>  "Inour times the aura has become only a presence, which is to say, a ghost."-Douglas Crimp style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:windowtext’>Theobjectification of a person through artistic reproduction reveals theproblematic nature of representation and its effort to capture life or to evenrecall it. A photograph tries to capture […]

An apocalyptic future at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Danielle O’Steen TheArgentinean artist Sebasti�n D�az Morales creates complex video installations that are experimental and apocalyptic in nature but contain the stark visual language of documentaries. D�az Morales was born in Comodoro Rivadavia in 1975 and has been presented at Museum Abteiberg, M�nchengladbach, NICC Antwerp, the […]

What Comes Out of Discord, for Susanna Coffey ? Joseph Maceda SusannaCoffey’s latest exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery is apparently aboutdissonance – as evidenced by the first painting, “Self Portrait (Eris),” thetitle of which refers to the Greek goddess of discord. Coffey’s self-portraitsseem at odds with themselves, the gallery, and the artist, who […]

Jay DeFeo’s Deadly Rose Eve Strickman             TheWhiney Museum’s exhibit of Jay DeFeo’s work is a tribute to an artist to gave everything to her vision. The centerpiece of the exhibit is of course, The Rose. DeFeo spent the years from 1958 – 1966 working in her Fillmore Street studio in San Francisco exclusively on […]

Uncomfortable Fictions: Carsten Holler Eric Ward CarstenHoller, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1961, was professionally employed as ascientist focusing on insect behaviors before he saw the artistic implicationswithin his work. For the past ten years he has worked independently, andcollaborated with many artists in order to redefine the art museum experience as we have traditionally […]

Bas Relief in Brooklyn Michael Cohn Bas reliefartworks recall the heyday of the Renaissance, when terra cotta friezes byartists like Luca della Robbia and the carved bronze doors of Lorenzo Ghiberti fired the imaginations of trailblazing Italian sculptors. Now, PeterKrebs is bringing bas relief to latter-day Brooklyn with a series of marblecarvings entitled “Relief.” The […]

Tough Merits and Lost Causes: Lee Krasner at Robert Miller Joao Ribas PALINGENESIS, 1971, Oil on canvas �Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Courtesy Robert Miller Gallery, New York style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black’>Lee Krasner is a bulls-eye for all sorts of critical impieties. Her legacy suffers as much from a benighted revisionism as from a close association with the Abstract Expressionist […]

A Gamer’s Element Joshua M. Shreckengost MarcoBrambilla, the Milan-born feature film director known for Hollywood titles such as Demolition Man and Excess Baggage, brought a stunning film exhibition focused on the fuzzy line between real life and virtual reality to the Zenith Media Lounge at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Soho. Brambilla uses […]