Those Who Could Have Ted Taylor Teachers, as a rule, don’t like George Bernard Shaw. They have been strugglingsince college to overcome his libelous dicta: “Those who can, do; thosewho can’t, teach.” The indictment hangs heavy on them, suggesting thattheir entire careers are only small consolation prizes for the better lives theycouldn’t quite achieve. One […]

Peter Wayne Lewis “Strings” @ Rosenberg + Kaufman Veerle Poupeye Should I startthis review by mentioning that Peter Wayne Lewis is a Jamaican, who came to theUSA many years ago after living in Panama? Doing so may impose a particular setof readings on his work, shaped by common – and usually very narrow –assumptions about […]

WORKING CLASS HEROES? Aaron Zimmerman It’s takenme 4 years but I’ve finally come to terms with it. Being an art handlerthat is. I used to hate it so much. Art school conditioned me to think that I was worth more in the world with an MFA than simply moving things for a living.Yea right. MFA’s […]

Glass: Interpretations on A Vision Amy M. Schaefer and Merrily Orsini When first discoveredin the Middle Ages, glass was considered such a mystery that its creators wereoften called magicians. Today, contemporary glass artists continue this magicaltradition with bold and beautiful works of art. The ways to manipulate glassare limitless, and a closer examination of the […]

Slawomir Marzec Anna Solbach Gallery Miejskain Lodz presents in March paintings of Slawomir Marzec (graduated from the Academyof Fine Arts in Warsaw and Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf). His paintings are coveredwith an infinite numbers of particles of over a hundred colors. Colors spottedat random, but also laid laboriously, dot after dot with a thin chip. Lookingat […]

Art Actions from Everyday Life Carla Subrizi A new paradigmfor artistic creation is emerging at the close of the twentieth century. It representsa substantial change in our very perception of the work of art as art ceasesto be a product as much as a way of being and feeling in the world. From an organicallyconceived […]

Auctioning Three “Minor” Works to Acquire a “Major” One Charles Giuliano This past week,it was widely reported that the Museum of Fine Arts intends to auction threeworks from its permanent collection at Sotheby’s in New York. The intendedsale of an exquisite pastel, “Dancer,” (1885 1890) by Edgar Degas,another unfinished pastel by the same artist, “Danseuses […]

Cuba + The Body Politic Cheryl Kaplan The curator GerardoMosquera notes that “political criticism has become a selling point forforeign galleries and collectors.The resulting pitfall is the creation of artabout politics rather than political art. “ In looking at the work of theeleven artists presented in Women Artists of Cuba a curious shift is apparentand […]

May Picks Christopher Chambers Lots of picks this month. First, the art fairs: From Scope I remember Jason ClayLewis’ fuzzy white blob, which turned out to be a rabbit fur encrusted Buddha,in Max Henry’s curated room. Max is curating a show for Stefan Stux thisMay, and there should be more of Lewis’ creations for our […]

Doug Aitken’s video performance in Turin Enrico Pedrini There is a bigexhibition about Doug Aitken running now in Turin, Via Modane, in the new centreof the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation. The show opens with the video installation“New Ocean”, where a most perfect editing rich in special effects leadsus to the borders of new sensitivity. The […]