Author Archives: jolanta
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Protests
A group of more than 130 artists, including many prominent figures in the Middle Eastern art world, says it will boycott the $800 million Guggenheim museum being built in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, unless conditions for the foreign laborers at the site are improved, Nicolai Ouroussoff reports for the New […]
Leo Steinberg (1920–2011)
Leo Steinberg, one of the most brilliant, influential, and controversial art historians of the last half of the twentieth century, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan, reports Ken Johnson for the New York Times. He was ninety. Johnson writes that the titles of his two best-known books, Other Criteria: Confrontations With Twentieth-Century Art […]
Two Riparian Tales of Undoing
Duke RileyMagnan Metz Gallery521 West 26th StreetChelseaFebruary 26 – April 9, 2011 Friday, February 25, 6 – 10 PM Magnan Metz Gallery is proud to announce Two Riparian Tales of Undoing, Duke Riley’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and first since his critically acclaimed exhibition After the Battle of Brooklyn in 2007. The […]
Riding the Crest of the Latin American Art Wave
It was only a few years ago, 2007 to be exact, that ‘The Pinta People’ taking a big gamble took the art world by surprise by mounting the world’s first international Latin American Modern & Contemporary Art Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. With 35 international galleries and countless Hispanic artists from […]
Women Without Men
Shirin Neshat has for over a decade fascinated us with the beauty, sensuous, timelessness of both her photographic works, and single and multi-channel video works. Born in Qazvin, Shirin Neshat left Iran just before the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent fall of the Shah. Since l983, Neshat’s art works have raised important questions […]
Patrick Martinez
Since the vivid days of Patrick’s childhood he was drawing or scribbling on something. In his teenage years circa early 90’s, he was introduced to Hip Hop culture and exclusively to one of its elements, graffiti. Graffiti remains a vital influence in his work. Hip Hop has influenced his art ever since he understood what […]
Adam Hunter Caldwell
My paintings and drawings juxtapose elements of abstract expressionism and classical figuration. During my training at the California College of Arts and Crafts, I began to create collage drawings that layered disparate images on top of one another; I now use oil paint in a similar way, starting with an abstract background and then adding […]
£7,000 Sun Dial at Christie’s
Text: Rare Sundial Once Used to Grow Strawberries Sundial Expected to Realise Over £7,000 Christie’s. A Scottish sundial. Estimate: £7,000 and £10,000. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2011. LONDON.- A Scottish sundial boss discovered half-buried in the ground in Herfordshire, England, and then used by the owner to grow strawberries, is expected to realise between £7,000 […]
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA
March 10–June 5, 2011, Whitney Museum of American Art AMERICA is the first comprehensive mid-career retrospective devoted to this pioneering New York–based artist. Throughout his career, Ligon (b. 1960) has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and […]
CITYWIDE CELEBRATION OF ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
Now in its seventh year, Asian Contemporary Art Week celebrates and promotes Asian contemporary art through artist conversations, panels, screenings, book launches, exhibitions, and curator tours at over 35 museums and galleries. This year, ACAW will be held throughout New York City, and opens on the first day of spring: Monday, March 21, also celebrated […]
