The Gryphons of Paris: A Reliquary of Photographs & Vignettes Ronald Hurwitz American concertviolist Ronald Hurwitz brings his emotional tuning to bear on the visual worldin Gryphons of Paris, the premier publication from Voirin Editions. Hurwitz’swork has taken a place in important Parisian collections including the BibliothèqueNationale, Musée Carnavalet, and the Maison Européenne de la […]

PRESERVATION OF OUTDOOR SCULPTURESCharles J. Hecht The preservation of an outdoor sculpture is important to the artist, the ownerand the persons who are to view and enjoy the sculpture for many years. But preservationrequires careful planning and an appropriate contract at the time the sculptureis commissioned or sold. It is incumbent on the artist to […]

Exhibitions of an Exhibition at Casey Kaplan Eduardo Costa Curator Jens Hoffmann recently presented his show of art works and curator’sproposals, Exhibitions of an Exhibition. Hoffman invited artists Meschac Gaba,Simryn Gill, Joseph Grigely and Amy Vogel, Roni Horn, Brian Jungen, Marepe, andRosemary Trockel to show works he had been interested in for some time, or […]

Group Sh/ Deep Down Todd Knopke Todd Knopke’s styleis eclectic; it combines painting, photography, quilting and sculpture with elementsof homespun craft. Many of the pieces are playful – or perhaps dorky isa more appropriate term. Some pieces give the impression that punk rock ceasedto be merely a past time occupation for the artist when it […]

Serena Bocchino, Intersection of Graphic Art and Jazz; "The Romance Series" John Eischeid Imagine waking up one Saturday morning to find Jackson Pollock and Miles Davissitting in the living room, watching cartoons and chatting about their relationshipswith others, their relationship with God, and the genesis of the universe. Suchis the work of Serena Bocchino: eclectic, […]

The Perfection of Play, Eleanora Kupencow Marek Bartelik Art results in unexpected encounters or, perhaps, it is the other way around:unexpected encounters result in art. For Eleanora Kupencow such an encounterwas with the Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) through his writings.Or does this meeting between Kupencow and Schultz just appear “unexpected”to me, because […]

On Space, Transcendence, and the Dia Beacon Robert C. Morgan The theologianPaul Tillich once spoke of “the space of tragedy” as being a conditionin which the historical sense of time had been lost. In his book Theology ofCulture (1964), Tillich refers to the Greek tragedies as events conceived ina space that is removed from our […]

Dream Factory Communism: The Visual Culture of the Stalin Era Jamey Hecht Soviet Socialist Realism is the purview of this exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthallein Frankfurt. It constitutes a sequel to "The Great Utopia," Schirn’s1992 exhibition on the Russian avant-garde. Those artists shared with their West-Europeancounterparts an active hostility to bourgeois institutions and to the […]

Workers without Borders: Surveillance and the workplace without the workpla Michele Beck The meteoric riseof the service economy in the West has led to the spread of surveillance, notjust over individuals who produce goods, but also over consumers. Since the West’sprimary form of production is no longer carried out by workers in a factory setting,new […]

Reconstructing Memory: The Family Photographs of Three New York Artists Lori Don Levan Jerry Vezzuso,Darin Mickey and Rod Morata all have something in common: they photograph theirfamilies. While this may not seem like an unusual activity — we all photographour families at some point or another — these three artists take familyphotography out to an […]