By Matthew Hassell The weight of art history bears down on few artists more inflexibly than in the case of the draftsman. One measure used to alleviate this constant pressure lies in the attempted dissolution of standard art historical categories. Is it a drawing? Is it a painting? Does it belong to the realm of […]

  Well, a salon that teleports you to the 1900’s in an entirely unique experience is different for sure. With eight Czech and Slovak artists partnering up eight foreign artists, the gallery becomes a bustling platform of ideas and connections. The exhibition emulates the concept of a Parisian art salon by bring artists together and […]

  MINUS SPACE is opening a major solo show tonight, “Linda Francis: We Can Build You.” For Francis’ second solo show at the gallery she will be featuring new large-scale oil paintings on wood panel. Visitors will be excited to see these challenging works which formally tackle wide-ranging concepts including astronomy, physics, mathematics, and philosophy.  […]

  The mega-floods of 2012 were extremely well-documented, of course, but as far as I’m aware, Miti Ruangkritya is the only photographer whose work reflects Thai society’s psychic experience of the floods in a really interesting way. Instead of the usual record of spectacular damage or the ‘upbeat’ spin of good citizens helping each other […]

This year, Armory Art Week 2013 will reach back into art history, don prizes to the best dressed and have artists establish brands.  The Armory show has announced Liz Magic Laser as their commissioned artist for the 2013 edition. Laser’s practice is interdisciplinary and broad as she combines performance, theatre and installation. Some of her […]

  The main differences between curating (which I did for about 15 years and still do but now in the gallery space ) and running a gallery is sales and critical response to the shows. There have been visits from writers from ArtForum, Art Net, Art News and Arte Fuse and the gallery mailing list […]

  In New York City, residents and tourists are constantly inundated with things to look at. Whether it be flashing lights, huge advertisements, a man dancing around only wearing green underwear in Union Square or yellow taxis flying by, there is always something new demanding our attention. The more years you spend here, the more […]

  In one of her paintings, Junkyard Sun, we see a toy Michael Jackson, and above him, a toy figure of pro wrestler Junkyard Dog.  Both of them are the artist’s childhood heroes.  A squirrel, a notion of conservation, is placed near the wrestler.  A big fly, a tiny zebra, a pair of shinny pumps, […]

So it was that the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1895 (just before he turned thirty years old) drew the image of the scream now at the Museum of Modern Art through April 29, 2013.  He drew it  with pastels on a sheet of paper mounted on cardboard.  It measures 32 by 23 ¼  inches.  […]

What inspired the idea was my exposure to music and art since a young age. I’m a DJ and when I was younger I worked with top labels such as Universal giving me access to all types of musicians. My time in art school and as a graffiti artists helped me build that natural passion for art. […]