The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, created in 1961, is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. MM Serra and Anne Hanavan—curators in charge from The Film-Maker’s Coop—together with Javier Moreno and Marta Arenal from the Angel Orensanz Foundation, have put together an audacious, noteworthy film program with titles culled from […]

  “Art is the one place for us to go, for all this stuff to be shored up. The stuff of 9/11 is too big to carry in silence. It has to be summoned up and detoxified. To have the conversation after ten years, to reflect in new ways, might alleviate some of the anxiety […]

The Parrish Art Museum is a great excuse to trek out to the beach, especially on a non-beach day. Nestled in Southhampton, it is soon to inhabit a nearby cornfield where it will have the impact as a kind of huge incubator of contemporary art. Its design mirrors turn of the century dairy farms, but […]

  The word “No” does not exist in the majority of the over 200 Australian Aboriginal languages. Where it does exist, this powerful word is reserved for the elders and is used with great care and ceremony. As these languages reach the brink of extinction, indigenous Australian artists are using contemporary art to assert their […]

  As the vaporetti shuffle visitors to and from the islands that comprise la Venezia, you realize that even Italians are tourists here. Nestled in the Northeast the Veneto, the last of the great global city-states, is a culture unto itself and as the first incubator of multiculturalism, it preserves the profound impact it had […]

  Frederico Sève Gallery is pleased to present GEGO: Prints & Drawings 1963-1991, an exhibition featured 13 prints and drawings that were completed by the German born, Venezuelan artist, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912-1994), from 1963 to 1991, along with a book of lithographs dating back to 1966. The show was on display to the public […]

  “The Idea of an International passport always seemed appealing to my thoughts, it’s liberating! Although that Idea is impossible, filmmaking is not and in Fly While Arab my random thought became one of my favorite lines in the film. “… We are all citizens of one world.”   Fly While Arab, Youssof Fakher (James […]

  In recent decades, contemporary Chinese art—the art produced between 1985 and the present—has been widely exhibited in the West. Inside Out, held at Asia Society in 1998, exhibited Chinese art from the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s, and there have been many other solo and group exhibitions at venues throughout the […]

Steven Thompson’s recent solo show at English Kills gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, was awesome in the true sense of the word. It was thought-provoking, wholly uncontrived, and yet drenched in local Zeitgeist. The exhibition revolved around a collection of original and approximate materials, which are the cornerstone of Thompson’s practice. Thompson’s approximates are fictional versions […]

In 1996, Chris Verene and Lisa Shinault set out to create an atmosphere in which the raising of personal esteem was essential and joy was palpable. What began as a private show for a close friend has since become the Self Esteem Salon. During its 13 years of production, the Self Esteem Salon has used […]