Two concurrent exhibitions at Solvent Space in Richmond, Virginia—one a vibrant outdoor fabric installation by Richmond artist Rachel Hayes, the other a hushed, indoor installation by Icelandic artist Margrét Blöndal—work together, persuasively, to create meanings beyond the intentions of either artist. Taken together, the two installations become a metaphor for external and internal experience. Hayes […]

There is something unsettling in Lordan Bunch’s recent paintings at Schroeder Romero. His painstaking reproductions of tombstone photographs are, on one level, a tribute to the dead and to grieving. He performs a ritual remembering that is likely to survive longer and travel further than the original memorial photos ever could. The photorealistic details of […]

“Suburban sprawl” is a familiar term of general degradation in a contemporary society where green solutions and densely packed diversity are increasingly prized. Green is sexy and the suburbs, with their tract housing, two car garages and strip malls as far as the eye can see, are decidedly un-sexy. The suburbs are a necessary evil […]

The association between super star étoile Sylvie Guillem and choreographer and dancer Russel Maliphant continues to produce masterpieces of strength and pure poetry. Each of their ten year’s worth of experience in classical and contemporary dance combined in 2003 when the dancers produced “Broken Fall” for the Covent Garden Dance Company with the Royal Ballet. […]

This February, a number of artists, curators, critics and collectors have been ruminating about art and the market. A panel called “Between Fact and Fiction…A Faustian Bargain: Emerging Artists, Critics and the Market” took place at the Hilton Hotel with Jeffrey Deitch, the Rubells, Jerry Saltz and Peter Plagens. With such a momentous title, you […]

“1627-2007” is a time-trip curated by Christian Ehrentraut at Artnews Projects, Berlin. The young dealer, Ehrentraut, who curates many more external projects than shows within his own gallery, features the works of the young artists Iris van Dongen, Ruprecht von Kaufmann and Dan Attoe in dialogue with the old Dutch masters from the 17th Century. […]

If you care about abstract painting—especially if you care about really smart, technically deft abstract painting—you need to see Robert Schatz’s show at The Phatory in Manhattan’s Alphabet City. There, about a block off of Tompkins Square Park, Schatz has staged a little riot of his own. Many of the paintings are created on the […]

It was a stormy winter in Chicago back in 2001 when I began illustrating more intensively. I was in the midst of my graphic design course, taking classes at the city’s School of the Art Institute. It was then that I began filling up sketchbook after sketchbook with daily doodles. At that time, it was […]

This is the way it usually goes: a push from one of us, a pull from the other. In the end, it’s hard to tell who’s who or what belongs to whom. We’ve been collaborating for eight years now, and it’s beginning to feel like we’re one being with four arms and two halves of […]

Recently, Chinese society has transitioned from an idealistic society to a pragmatic one, bringing with it a change in values. In the early phases of Chinese contemporary art, most of the works produced discussed more abstract questions, such as political and economical matters concerning a collective society, whereas, today, the focus is turning toward individual […]