Author Archives: jolanta
The Erotic and the Insatiable
Eroticism always interested me as a theme as old as the history of art, as it makes references to the customs, life, and culture of societies. Carlo Giovani Eroticism always interested me as a theme as old as the history of art, as it makes references to the customs, life, and culture of societies. […]
The Sacred Geometry of the Feminine
Black Madonna has as its signature image Mark Wiener’s Still Life in Red (2009), a 1981 photograph of the nude pop star Madonna violently slashed with a red X. There is a lot of nakedness in this wonderful exhibit, a raw intensity not typically on view in Chelsea, which is why the near Times Square […]
Film Rolls from China
Experiencing life feels like inhaling fresh air. It’s not like you take a book, read a chapter, and you’ve gained this or that. Yang Fu-Dong Experiencing life feels like inhaling fresh air. It’s not like you take a book, read a chapter, and you’ve gained this or that. For me, I might go read a […]
Portraits of Human Nature
Landscape of Childhood will be the first time Yan Pei-Ming has produced a show without canvases by experimenting with installation. Guo Xiao-Yan Landscape of Childhood will be the first time Yan Pei-Ming has produced a show without canvases by experimenting with installation. Huge landscapes directly painted on the walls of UCCA’s Big Hall frame […]
Carry Van Delft
>Carry van Delft works emphasize the aesthetic of a spiritual journey that is at once historically embedded and intensely intimate and personal. Carry van Delft works emphasize the aesthetic of a spiritual journey that is at once historically embedded and intensely intimate and personal. They awaken our emotional memory, and empower us to see more […]
Intimate Spaces
Leah Oates: Each artist’s path is different and unique. How and when did you become and know you were an artist?Yeni Mao: You’re born an artist like you are born gay. Yeni Mao, interviewed by Leah Oates Leah Oates: Each artist’s path is different and unique. How and when did you become and know […]
Breaking the Space Continuum
The video installation by Magdalena Fernández reinterprets the Metaesquemas series of Hélio Oiticica to perform a reflection about the elements and mechanisms that transform our experience of space: light, color, and movement. Sandra Pinardi The video installation by Magdalena Fernández reinterprets the Metaesquemas series of Hélio Oiticica to perform a reflection about the elements […]
Amir H. Fallah
In Amir H. Fallah’s latest body of work, he continues his prior explorations into boyhood memory, the intensity of relationships, both past and present, and the thin line between the real and the imagined. In Amir H. Fallah’s latest body of work, he continues his prior explorations into boyhood memory, the intensity of relationships, […]
Michael Lineares
Michael Linares’ recent exhibition Found & Lost at Museum of Contemporary Art Puerto Rico highlights the alternately political, prosaic, spiritual, and flamboyant methods by which life is experienced and observed. The exhibition employs Linares’ own fluency in multifarious forms of discourse—from sculpture, to photography and video. Suzie Walshe on Michael Lineares Michael Linares’ recent […]
Miranda July
Some of the things I make are obviously built for audience interaction—Eleven Heavy Things, the sculptures for the Venice Biennale, are objects that literally have holes for people to fit their bodies into and pose with. Similarly, my Web site Learning To Love You More (with Harrell Fletcher) gives assignments to the public. Some […]
