SIRI BERG at ETS Brodsky Gallery Kenneth Martina The ETS Brodsky Gallery in Princeton is host to a series of works by the NewYork-based artist Siri Berg. The artworks are a selection of seven paintingsand an equal number of Japanese woodblock prints. The paintings rangein size and technique——from minimalist oils that adhere to a grid […]

“The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms” L.P. Streitfeld With the full participationof the artist, curator Isabelle Dervaux has assembled the first exhibition ofRed Grooms portraits in an adventurous show at the Katonah Museum of Art thathas to be experienced to be believed – which explains the word of mouthappeal. Ranging from early intimate sketches […]

Art as a Universal Language Hannelore Baron and Andy Goldsworthy L.P. Streitfeld The Neuberger Museumhas scored a significant coup this year with the simultaneous exhibitions oftwo exceptional artists exploring universal language. The dedication by whichHannelore Baron and Andy Goldsworthy express the injection of spirit into matterestablish them as artistic standard bearers for the 21st century. […]

SCI-ART: It’s all in the GUT (Grand Unified Theory) M-1000 For the past coupleof months, New York has been hosting the “DNAge Citywide Festival for the50th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Double-Helix.” Numerous arts exhibitionsincluding “How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era” are being held atthe International Center of Photography (ICP) (through May 25). […]

Nina Meledandri: The Metaphysics of Twilight Mark Daniel Cohen It is not quite as dark here as we thought. On the contrary, the interior ispulsating with light. It is, of course, the internal light of roots, a wanderingphosphorescence, tiny veins of light marbling the darkness, an evanescent shimmerof nightmarish substances. — Bruno Schulz, “Spring”   […]

Destiny, Photography as Appropriation of the World Matthias Harder A dinner with thefood half cold or an ashtray on a windowsill – we ordinarily do not takeintense note of such situations or objects; their symbolic content is often overlooked.When, in accordance with a Buddhist tradition, a photographer says a prayer ofthanks for a meal, when […]

UNREASONABLE ENGAGEMENTS Perry McPartland At its high watermark of acceptance and supererogation, some marks of malaise seems to occur withinthe reigning cultural form. In its unchallenged authority, now stabilised andinstitutionalised, the rude vitality which originally fired it appears spent.Its forms cease to pulse and act merely as promulgation for their sponseringculture. Our contemporary panorama seems […]

Color as Language Piri Halasz Can color be a language? In graduate school, I chose Kandinsky’s use of color for a seminarpresentation, in hopes of answering this question, but was disappointed. AlthoughKandinsky had ideas about what each color said, I found discrepancies betweenwhat he thought, and the correspondences that Goethe, for example, found. Yearslater, I […]

The Missing: The Photography of Andrea Frank and Cleverson Raul Zamudio Like the positive-negativedichotomy, my attraction to the photographic work of Andrea Frank and Cleversonstems from what their work alludes to that draws attention to something absent.For though they are artists that are engaged in photography and its discourse,they have arrived at this practice through […]

John Perreault: Pataphysician Robert C. Morgan John Perreaulthas always struggled to separate the things he likes to do from the things hedoes best. In this way, he maintains a discrete repertory of objects, words,and events. He writes poetry. He writes criticism. And he makes serious art thatappears flippant. He makes paintings with toothpaste and does […]