Author Archives: jolanta

I am sensitive to everything visual. When I was young, I was a shy little boy. I always looked out the window, especially when I was on the train. I could stare outside the window the whole day and not get tired. Now I like road trips. Driving long hours is fun for me because […]

I went to college in 1998 at the oil painting department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. I had more time to concentrate on the history and techniques of Western oil painting. I learned about art from the Middle Ages and subject matters like religion.    Wang Nian-Dong is a Chongqing-based artist in China. Wang […]

They had re-baptized him the “civil barbarian,” a little for his powerful physical aspect and his long raven-black beard, a little for the independent attitude he has always shown in the face of the art world. A little less than a year since the disappearance of Emilio Vedova (1916-2006) the National Gallery of Modern Art […]

"As well as the meta-physical, which is so often the retreat of the artist, there is color and movement, warmth, humor, and a kind of illustrative conformity that references both the past and present trends of the visual arts." Melanie Prapopoulos Jill Smith Melanie Prapopoulos’ work was on view at Broadway Gallery in December 2007 […]

The Happy Planet Index realized by the British organization, the New Economics Foundation, places Colombia in second place of the happiest countries of the world, only surpassed by the Pacific island, Vanuatu. In contrast, another British organization, The Economist Intelligence Unit, gave our country the position number of 116 in the Global Index of Tranquility, […]

All’s Fair in Love and War is a three-channel video installation that was on view at Exit Art’s Show, Love/War/Sex in January. The title of this piece comes from a proverb that claims that people in love and soldiers in wartime are not bound by the rules of fair play. Yet, it seems highly ironic […]