Early in his career, painter Aaron Smith spent his days feeding a studious obsession for art history and his weekend nights manning the door of a L.A. nightclub that hosted appearances by performance artist Ron Athey and others, who were famously photographed by Catherine Opie. Like many artists of his generation, Smith explores issues of […]

I am interested in the ways that—especially gender-specific forms of—power and violence are structured and staged in representations of sexuality and (processes of) desire and queer-feminist (body) politics. In Dolores (2005), a staging of a lesbian-queer new adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita, I constructed a walk-in set. I used wooden markings on the floor […]

At a selected point in the exhibition room, either Andreas Sell, himself, or actors hired by him, stand still for hours. This type of exhibition turns the human body into art/the exhibition. The artist uses the act of standing in the exhibition/being the exhibition as a display of his disruption to the traditional experience of […]

Fresh from having his work shown at the Florence Biennale, a selection of Dutch artists Wim Zorn’s abstract pieces were recently presented at the Broadway Gallery in NYC.
 These painted, primordial color-schemed works border on being assemblages by incorporating materials, like bamboo and binding agents to create shape and texture in a mainly asymmetrical style. […]

I was born in 1979. I current live and work in Bucharest. I am an artist and sometimes a curator. I studied photography and video at the University of Arts in Bucharest. Drawing on the environment and influenced by Bucharest life, I document the urban through my photography. I am the founder of Bukres blog […]

This is a piece of work that focuses on women, on how they are represented in classical art, indeed on the “codes” that surround and determine their representation, from the Renaissance to today. I chose to observe the backgrounds that encase, and to some extent determine, the way women are portrayed, from a Florentine countryside to the overwrought interior […]

One may notice that Zhang Hua always creates his works in between hard and soft material. He transforms a classical sculptural entity into an origami shell or melting paste; he elongates, crushes, or reduces the scale to make various contrasts. His work involves the Chinese traditional wisdom of void over solid, perceiving the massive from […]

London’s National Gallery houses over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. They are arranged by period: 1250-1500, 1500-1600, 1600-1700, and 1700-1900. As might be expected of an iconic national asset, and one which attracts as many as five million visitors a year, the treasure it accommodates, like that of New York’s Metropolitan, […]

I humorously, but also ironically, question the existence of contemporary man, belonging to a society, to a world wishing to be global, while simultaneously floating into a fantastic and flashing upheavel. The change is ensured, but how, in which way? As an artist I function like a mirror reflecting the reality, but through my own […]

The world is a man-made illusion. When you care about it, it is real. When you don’t, it becomes an illusion. The materials for making the installation piece Manufacturing Worlds are from a model-making factory that went bankrupt. I bought what’s left of their goods, which included a skyscraper, a plane, a cow, and military […]