I have two identities. One is as a director, the other is as a photographer. Video direction is the career through which I make a living, so this is why a lot of my habits from that side of things inevitably influence my other identity, as photographer. Therein lies my most notable qualities as a […]

When I was around seven years old, my parents bought me a purple pop-up viewfinder camera. I used to take this with me everywhere, photographing my seaside holidays, Sunday dinners at my grandparents and even my cats urinating. At ten, I got bored of carrying a camera around my neck and lost interest until it […]

I became interested in photography quite early, as a teenager. I grew up in a small town in Norway and so the local library only had a few photography books, and mostly in the ”how to take great photographs” section. But, if I heard about a book I wanted to read, the librarians would do […]

Mickalene Thomas has taken Blaxploitation images of the 70s and mixes them with her mother’s photographs from the late 70s. Thomas’ paintings are exciting, enchanting and invigorating. I met the artist in the Brooklyn studio where she makes her paintings, often in series—the “Brawlin Spitfire” images, portraits and the “Odalisques and She Works Hard For […]

Bears are perhaps not the most typical subject matter for an art exhibition. In fact, whenever a show bases itself on the premise of something real—something tangible like, say, bears—it catches me off guard. Accustomed as I am to press releases that read like BS-filled college art history papers trying desperately to catch up with […]

What does one seek from a work of art? Is it the sensuality of paint, the allure of color, the attentiveness to shape and form, the artist’s handling of line, circuitous or straight, wavy or merely linear, the mysterious application of paint, rich in color, vaporous in shadow? Of course, it is all of this […]

Andy Warhol was both a friend and mentor to Jamie Wyeth, the acclaimed realist painter and third generation artist of the Wyeth clan. A decade later, in the 80s, he was also a friend to the street-wise wizard of language and image, Jean-Michel Basquiat. For this exhibition, which was organized by the Brandywine River Museum, […]

The exhibition “Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Architecture of Little Books,” is a show about the magazines used to convey radical ideas on architecture in the 60s and 70s. The show itself is set up in chronological order and displays the vehicles used (magazines) to express the angst, frustration, innovation and hopes for architectural design in the future. […]

Lately I’ve noticed an interesting trend in mainstream cinema. Movies like Pan’s Labyrinth, Children of Men, Letters From Iwo Jima and The Lives of Others all offer a critique of fascism or totalitarianism. Set in either the past or a fictive future, these films illuminate current dilemmas we all face in the wake of 9-11. […]

Today, more than ever before, highly meaningful work is being produced in the realm of sound and visual experimentation, bringing us to a new paradigm, which cannot easily be defined through criticism and that only comes from the marriage of music and art. Unquestionably, there are many forms of art that clearly belong to the […]