The Art of Peter �str�m: Order amid Exuberance Carter Ratcliff In Peter Åström’srecent paintings, line doesn’t simply move over the surface. It ploughsthrough the surface—a surface which is a mixture of pigment and modelingpaste. As the line advances, it evolves. In fact, Åström’s linehas been evolving since the early 1980s. Along the way it has […]

Hansueli Urwyler: Fire and Ice Maureen Dougherty, Jamie Dalglish and David Anderson When viewing thelandscape paintings of Swiss artist Hansueli Urwyler, a spectacle of light andelemental configurations make themselves present. In the painting Vision SchwefelschwadenMte. Vulcano (Sulfur Fumes of Mt. Volcano) one can imagine stepping off the roughrocks and into the silver sea of flowing […]

Manet/Vel�zquez – Magnificent Piri Halasz New York has beenblessed recently with three blockbuster exhibitions, each one in its way richlyrewarding, but appealing to somewhat different audiences. The first was “Leonardodi Vinci: Master Draftsman.” The second was “Matisse/Picasso,”and the third :”Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting,”at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through June 28). In […]

Hands Across the Water – Conditions for a Better Future Linda Dennis Certain Conditionsis the title of a show that came about as a result of an East Williamsburgh artist– myself, meeting Sam Fleming, an artist from Belfast Northern Ireland, in aninternet conversation about studio exchange. His interest in reaching out toexplore opportunities for exposing […]

War and Peace: Artists’ Voices Various Artists During a recentinterview for a publication on the impact of 9/11 on New York’s art world,I declared that my work hadn’t been this political since GW’s fatherwas in office. Then I thought about what I had just said. Well, yes and no. I’vealways engaged with gender representations in […]

Visual Arts Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia Fabio Cavallucci In this momentwhen discussing the 50th edition of the Visual Arts Exhibition of La Biennaledi Venezia, curated by Francesco Bonami, one cannot comment on much more thanthe title: perfect. Dreams and Conflicts represents in an impeccable way thedialect between these contrasting factors and a theme […]

Reconstructing the Past: Robert Whitman Projections John Perreault The problem withart that involves time is also its glory. It is not frozen in time. I am thinkingof technology-based art when the technology is superceded. I am thinking of Happenings,Events Performances. Site-specific installations that have time limits mightalso fit into this sink-hole of the ephemeral. But […]

The History of the World Vs. Your Aesthetic Erik Bakke p>Coming to gripswith a strong minded artist’s aesthetic can be difficult. And when thisaesthetic is offered along with a super abundance of cultural and historicalreferences the task can seem overwhelming. Three recent exhibitions in Manhattanmake this point overt in that each exhibition contains hundreds of […]

Specificity Denise Carvalho p>In a time whenour conception of history is not only non-linear and multidimensional but alsosimulated and sensational, the notion of a movement or a style or a school iscertainly obsolete. One might have to accept that the authenticity and rationaleof prior histories led to how we envision the art of today. “Specificity”can […]

SCI-ART: Post-Photography, Documenting Our Genetic Possibilities M-1000 When Roy Ascottwrote about our post-photographic age, he suggested that nowadays nobody reallycares about the debate over what is real or how much truth is unveiled in photographydue to the explosive use and incorporation of the digital medium. Meaning, theperspective of viewing photography solely as a journalistic medium […]