Author Archives: jolanta
Lineareality
Envisage individual moments seized by some anonymous invasion of a private physical boundary. See in a film each frame expand in narrative, through time, every one slipping elusively past like a painting lost to the flux of energies colliding over urban landscapes. Inspired by media-saturated environments, video, and other time-based media, artist Andrea Facco produces […]
December 6, 2007
NY Arts + Art Fairs International: The Daily Newsletter Thursday, December 6 Questioning Appropriation Art; Pre-Columbian Art in Spain To see the NY Arts Newsletter in Chinese please click here International Top News Questioning Appropriation Art Since the late 1970s, when Richard Prince became known as a pioneer of appropriation art — photographing other photographs, […]
Basim Magdy
There was a little Bigfoot who liked to play in mud pools after long days of rain. Mother Bigfoot always told him not to. Little Bigfoot never listened. One day, it rained a lot in the forest, but as the sun emerged from behind the clouds, little Bigfoot went outside to build a mud palace. […]
Till Gerhard talks to Nicholas Weist
Nicholas Weist: Till, the narratives of your paintings are generally scenes of vague horror, dystopia, or pop culture gone brutally wrong. Do you feel you paint from life, or is it more of a forecast, a forewarning? Till Gerhard: I would say that I certainly do paint from life, as a lot of my source […]
Palm Trees and Rollerblades: A Diary of the Miami Art Fairs
Every vocation, corporate franchise, sexual perversion or cultural obsession has its own annual convention. No matter what obscure hobby or freaky shit floats your boat, there is a fair, festival or convention to celebrate it. You could be a dental hygienist, C.F.O., foot fetishist or video game enthusiast. It doesn’t matter. I guarantee you that […]
December 5, 2007
NY Arts + Art Fairs International: The Daily Newsletter Wednesday, December 5 Paris’ Censorship Issue; Russia’s First Kandinsky Prize To see the NY Arts Newsletter in Chinese please click here International Top News Paris’ Censorship Issue An exhibition of contemporary Russian art in Paris made headlines weeks ago when Russian culture minister Alexander Sokolov embargoed […]
This is How I Roll
The Dos Pestañeos exhibition Every Last Day is coming down after a month-long run. I wake up and leave Brooklyn with David for DC, hoping to get to the gallery by 7pm. After making very concrete arrangements, it is a bit disheartening to arrive after all that travel and find that there is no one […]
Georg Gatsas
New York’s Chinatown and Bowery has become the last resort for artists, music-makers, and other night dwellers for affordable living in Manhattan. It’s a neighborhood that still preserves the spirit, beauty, and rawness of Downtown Manhattan that has been overrun by corporate symbols, new irrational laws, and a chain of new buildings that nowadays serve […]
December 4, 2007
NY Arts + Art Fairs International: The Daily Newsletter Tuesday, December 4 Gauguin’s Molars?; Miami Satellites To see the NY Arts Newsletter in Chinese please click here International Top News Gauguin’s Molars? Archaeologists have found what may be Paul Gauguin’s molars, the Canberra Times reports. The four rotten teeth were discovered at the bottom of […]
Mondongo
In Spanish, the word “mondongo” means tripe, or the lining of a cow’s stomach. The word “Mundungus” is an ancient one, meaning “tobacco” or “garbage.” In other words, “mondongo” is a word that has a profound meaning in our lives, and our future. “Mondongo” is also a stew we love, and we are like three […]
