Author Archives: jolanta
Trading Places
Location is often influential to art scenes. Often young artists’ early work especially demonstrates this, with the artists responding to what immediately confronts them. The issue of location is at the roots of the group show, Underground on BROADWAY, at Broadway Gallery NYC in New York’s SoHo this past summer, with both artists and curator […]
A Cinematic Medley
Coup de foudre is a French expression meaning, a lightening strike or the shock of falling in love, and it is the title of the forceful and intensive intervention, conceived by Paul Miller as a remix of Cocteau’s film, The Blood of a Poet. Coup de Foudre balances three elements simultaneously: a beautiful musical composition […]
Turkish Traits
The greater Near- and Middle East region has historically been at the vanguard of cultural activity in world civilization. Led by Iran and Turkey, this geographic expanse has long been considered a bastion of art and creativity. More recently, despite the most challenging of socio-political circumstances, we have witnessed a remarkable artistic and cultural revival, […]
Metaphysical Associations
My experience of living abroad marked a difference if compared with other artists in China. In their early works, these artists chose videography as a way to document performances; these actions were imbued with conceptual meanings, and the particular social environment in China at that time didn’t allow them to perform freely in front of […]
Alice & Joe Woodhouse
Our collaboration began, and has continued, as a process of giving each other “open” artworks for the other sibling to continue until it reaches what we feel to be a concluded state. The work is made often without conferring, with both of us preferring to discuss the work at either end of its creation. Once […]
The Bee’s Omen
When I saw that Einstein had said, “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men,” I began researching Colony Collapse Disorder, a recent worldwide phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or […]
Eyeing Korea
I curated Korean Eye: Moon Generation in 2009. The exhibition attracted over 250,000 visitors during its four months at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The driving force behind this initiative was Korean Eye co-founders, collectors David and Serenella Ciclitira, who wanted to create a platform on which contemporary artists from Korea could show their work […]
Glancing Sideways
Serkan Özkaya, a conceptual artist based in Istanbul, has been showing since the age of 18. He is a provocateur, a utopianist, a kind of merry prankster in the tradition of Duchamp and the Dadaists, shuttling between the hyperbolic, the deadpan, and the serious, as he explores and expands the meaning of history, creativity and […]
Behind Closed Doors
“Estranged” refers to someone or something that was formerly close and no longer is. With a broad and holistic understanding of sexuality and sex, and after years of honest and stark introspection and reflection upon existence and society begins Estranged Sex: a work about a sexuality that is both strange and estranged, natural and alienated. […]
Rubin Museum’s “Talk About Nothing” Series
Early events have sold out for The Rubin Museum of Art’s TALK ABOUT NOTHING, a series of on-stage conversations with eminent artists, philosophers, actors, writers and musicians about what “nothing” means to them. Sold out events included those with Mike Nichols, Ken Burns, Bill Viola, Philip Glass, Karen Armstrong…Don’t miss the remaining talks! The New […]
