Author Archives: jolanta
Scope Art Fair Diary
Having visited SCOPE Art Fair at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park the morning after it opened, I found a much more sedate crowd than the one that had probably patronized the place during the previous night’s party. Since the Markt wing of the show was strategically placed by the coat check, I, along with much of […]
Shades of Blue
Artist Laurance Rassin, director of the New Blue Riders, is teaming up with the Durst Organization and Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl (CCOC) to create awareness and funding for not-for-profit organizations through Simply Blue, his first major solo show at Condé Nast’s exhibition space in Manhattan. The exhibition, curated by Lanny Powers, is open to the public […]
The Two Hands Art Store: Infinite Dimensions
This March Turkish artist Gulay Alpay will construct of her signature environmental installations, at the Art Expo show New York. The Two Hands Art Store Alpay’s most recent happening, is a collaborative effort between herself and the audience which she creates using florescent paints and a variety of other media. In such environments, Alpay recreates […]
Manners of the Body
The earliest performance piece of Bai Chong-Min that I knew about was Lugu Lake, which was a collaboration with Wu Wei-He in 2002. It was part of the “Long March” projects on feminism. It could be easily concluded from Lugu Lake that the cloth dolls and clothes styles were all making an analogy to the […]
New York Art Fair Week
The Armory Show, the big attraction of New York Arts Week, and why shouldn’t it be? With the most important names of the 20th and 21st century on their list, it is one of the most valued events in the New York art world. However, the more recent trend of less established art fairs representing […]
Reign of Humor
My drawings, sculptures, and installations serve as visual comedy, or a form of concrete poetry, and can mostly be credited to a failed attempt at mastering the English language. To me, rhyme, homonyms, puns, and euphemisms are more historically vital discoveries than fire. Although I interject social satire and politics into my work at times, […]
Walk the Walk
My art practice is invested in creating a free space for contemplation that lends itself to mutual understanding and the promotion of non-violence. My work has taken a variety of forms including performance, installation, photography, film, video, text, sculpture, and sound. For the 13th annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, feel free to join […]
…Yet You’re My Favorite Work of Art
An intriguing group exhibition, My Funny Valentine: A Tribute to Chet Baker curated by the outsider Tchera Niyego, featured Carl Andre, Ilsabé von Dallwitz, Jennifer Contini Enderby, Rudi Keimel, Ayşe Küçük, Robert Le Biez, and Michelle Sakhai. The subject matter of the exhibition explores the nature of love, and perception, visual and otherwise, in relation to the theater of passions and life. […]
Structure of the Malleable
Navedenga is an installation of the room-size sculpture Navedenga (1998) by Ernesto Neto (born 1964), one of the most influential Brazilian artists working today. Navedenga was acquired in 2007, and is on view for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art from January 22 to April 26. The installation is organized by Doryun […]
Pompidou’s Women
Catherine Y. Hsieh: How did the concept for the show develop?Camille Morineau: Well, it was in a strange way when I arrived in the museum six years ago. I thought about putting up an objectionism show. And then three years later it appeared on a show called The Revolution and Independence of Spain, a European […]
