Author Archives: jolanta

There they were, sitting on the steps of the Art and Architecture building on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The hip art kids. Sure, I took my History of Graphic Design class as an elective towards my Anthropology degree (thus giving the art deco prints of old booze ads in my […]

It didn’t help that, the day the Art Gallery of Knoxville was slated to open, the city demolished the bridge—the Gay Street Viaduct—that would otherwise connect it with the rest of downtown. In effect, it was cut off, geographically at least, from downtown’s budding art scene before it even got started. Luckily, Art Gallery founders […]

First introduced to the paintings of Hackworth Ashley by Lee Wells’ curated “future perfect” wall at –scope Hamptons last summer, I was an immediate fan. Anyone who knows my style, knows this is it. “Is that Bill Cosby with his dick out?” And the rainbows! It looked to me like Bill himself couldn’t help but […]

In the 80s, on a rough foundation laid in the 60s and 70s by a small group of committed art lovers from Rotterdam, a well-structured art policy came into being. Rotterdam started to compete with the capital city of the Netherlands and succeeded. Those confronted with the hermetic and crowded city of Amsterdam were attracted […]

This summer, the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam hosted “Photosynthesis,” an overview of ecological art by Danish artist Tue Greenfort. Composed of diverse pieces, with varying mood, medium and subject matter, the exhibition can be viewed as a metaphorical ecosystem. Photosynthesis reveals interconnections between artworks that are at first glance unrelated. By […]