Author Archives: jolanta

Palmira Hernández de Lück’s recent solo exhibition at Broadway Gallery was entitled Enigmatic Sensuality, an apt title testifying to the powerful and captivating work on view. Reminiscent of the work of Georgia O’Keefe and Mexican folk art, Hernández de Lück’s striking paintings draw us into an enigmatic and sensual world of fantasy, seduction, and spirit. […]

For all the talk of Catholic self-denial and ritualistic sacrifice that has often surrounded Marina Abramovic’s work, it seems at least a little appropriate that Videoinstalaciones, a small but intensive survey representing some 35 years of Abramovic’s works on video, should be at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, a repurposed, colonial-era cathedral. Abramovic is, Blaines and Copperfields […]

French street artist JR is currently, in his own words, “focusing the eyes of the world on the women of Kenya.” This takes the form of constructing a vast rooftop installation made up of photographs of the eyes and faces of women from Kibera, 2,000 whole square meters of it, and is best viewed using […]

Intervals is an experimental contemporary art series designed to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices. Conceived to take place in the interstices of the museum’s exhibition spaces or beyond the physical confines of the building, the program invites a diverse range of artists to create new work for a succession of solo presentations. […]

Broadthinking at Broadway Gallery in SoHo is a compilation of installations by 11 individual artists metamorphing natural or waste products into another form of existence, giving new life through use of the materials and ideas. As artists, they are able to manipulate, control, recycle materials into other products that motivate viewers’ conscience to their own […]

I seek a potential space for habitual symbols in my paintings, and I experiment with a recombination of various languages. Through individual experience and study of habitual symbols, I try to remain detached to the classical meanings of symbols in artistic creation. I try to transform strangeness into new forms to create concepts that surpass […]

Man Yu: What are the important issues you want to discuss through your latest works? Xu Tan: An important consideration is what art is. When I began to learn art, I thought that art was about appreciation of beauty, that it was about aesthetics or aesthetic construction, and a process of perfection. Recently, I have […]