Who needs Banksy when you have Zansky as a natural resource?  His fire drawings now on view at Stefen Stux are a remarkable mix of skill and innovation. These large scale line drawings have the look of faded sepia sketches of Da Vinci or badly faded enlarged photocopies of twentieth century cave paintings. Upon closer […]

In no part of Clouds; An Illustrated Taxonomy does the book claim to be art, but it has to be the most beautiful scientific guide on the market. This sleek little volume is bound in simple-yet-elegant silver covers and printed on matte black paper; it is a far cry from its inspiration, The International Cloud […]

Indian artist Raqib Shaw’s monumental exhibition Paradise Lost at Pace Gallery, New York, of large meticulously painted fabulations rendered like an overlay of inlaid mosaic tiles is exhilarating beyond belief.  The viewer is drawn at once to its spellbinding craftsmanship and exuberance, and the everlasting lure of decadence. But in fact Shaw delivers quite the […]

In the contemporary art world, one of the most challenging undertakings is to curate a group show. Featuring the recent works of six artists of diverse backgrounds, the current exhibition at Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden asks bold questions. Is the centuries-old quarrel between painting and sculpture still relevant and how can an artist complicate […]

Mechelen is a small city in Belgium, poised exactly half way between Brussels and Antwerp. Though it has a higher percentage of listed buildings than the better-known tourist magnet Bruges, for a long time, the city has been a hidden gem. Over the last couple of years, however, Mechelen has managed to put itself on […]

Politics of Light, Jan Tichy’s first solo exhibition in NYC, is a moody paean to light and shadow, to the ebbs and flows of what light reveals and what darkness hides. Tichy’s installations are a fluid integration of diverse media incorporating animation, film, photography, and sculpture, all invested with the presence of mechanical light—be it […]

In his first solo exhibition at Samuel Freeman in Los Angeles, The Four People You Meet at Every Drug Deal, Jibade-Khalil Huffman brought his viewer into a world of myriad, reflecting surfaces; a coreless expanse of language and image that flitted over the face of something unutterable. Huffman showed work in a range of media […]

The bible has been a pillar of society since its writing centuries ago. At the same time, it is a fractured and controversial document wrought not only by the wars fought in its name, but also by conflicts over the document itself, how it should be read, translated, and distributed. There are countless versions, each […]

Be prepared to let your imagination carry you away while visiting French artist Laurent Chéhère’s first solo exhibition in the U.S. at Muriel Guépin Gallery, opening November 1. This fantastical exhibition features a series of recent photographs, many of which have never before been exhibited in a series entitled Flying Houses. Each photograph depicts a […]

Bursting with colors so gorgeous they could have been mixed by Matisse, Shirley Jaffe’s paintings bring a rare excitement to our senses. The American artist moved to Paris in 1949 and has lived and worked there ever since. Her early works, with thick brush strokes of pigment and strong gestures, were in the style of […]