From the earliest record, light occupies a special place in human consciousness. Light and Abstract Painting by Slawomir Marzec From the earliest record, light occupies a special place in human consciousness. It was identified as a basic world energy, as emanation of divinity. Even today, it is a basic carrier of information in our computer […]

"The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, "One Illuminates the Other" Marion Held at Art Resources Transfer Tova Beck-Friedman "The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all…. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, […]

The exhibition of witty, whimsical furniture at Galerry Naga by Judy Kensley McKie is a rare and wonderful, divine event. Furniture Fit for Man or Beast: Judy Kensley McKie by Charles Giuliano The exhibition of witty, whimsical furniture at Galerry Naga by Judy Kensley McKie is a rare and wonderful, divine event. If Boston is […]

During the medieval period, an era dominated by faith and mysticism, inquirers gazed at the stars, not through the objective lens of astronomy, but to predict the movements and implications of the zodiac formulated by the laws of astrology. Adam Fuss: Nature Through Alchemy, The Origins of Photography Reinvented by Charles Giuliano   During the […]

The Moscow artist Olga Chernysheva is known for the photographs she took of fur clad women in the famous Moscow metro. Olga Chernysheva by Olga Chernysheva The Moscow artist Olga Chernysheva is known for the photographs she took of fur clad women in the famous Moscow metro. Now that it is winter and I am […]

Craftsmanship is supposed to be one of those old-fashioned virtues that went out of style with Jackson Pollock–at least, if you couldn’t see rhyme or reason in one of his poured paintings, and there were many people who couldn’t, including Harold Rosenberg. Technique and Ambition by Piri Halasz Craftsmanship is supposed to be one of […]

Arte Povera American Style: Funk, Play, Poetry and Labor @ Cleveland Institute of Art / Curated by Julie Langsam and Bruce Checefsky – by Saul Ostrow Arte Povera–that is the movement identified and organized in 1972 by Germano Celant a young art critic was intended was the perhaps the last consciously constructed art movement of […]

Berty Skuber’s travels through the world of labels began more or less by accident and without premeditation in 1995, when her eye was caught by an image that peeked out surreptitiously from the lining of a friend’s or acquaintance’s jacket. Under Penalty of Law by Henry Martin Berty Skuber’s travels through the world of labels […]

All the clich’s are true. How Not To Write An Art Review – With apologies to Anselm and Inka by James Kalm All the clich�s are true. The Market has no heart. Fortune cookies really are profound. The difference between good art, and great art, sometimes amounts to nothing more, than an effective sales pitch. […]

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