Author Archives: jolanta

Intimacy is a complex exchange and its peculiarities understandable only to those involved. Gateway to inadequacy, isolation and frustration is in its counterpart, alienation, both physical and emotional. Mauro Piva’s coherent body of work, begun in 1999, consistently and systematically explores the subtleties and dynamics of these themes through two recurring faceless figures distinguishable only […]

A city like São Paulo is not particularly conducive to meandering. In the sea of almost 20 million people a vast majority drive from A to B. During their long and gridlocked transit, glances out of the window allow for degrees of recognition of an outer layer of what they see but perhaps never truly […]

Alexis Hubshman, -scope’s 35 year old president and the sole owner of -scope Art Fairs, is ecstatic and why shouldn’t he be. Just this past March, -scope New York, with its 14,000 visitors and sales of over seven million dollars, shattered all alternative art fairs sales and attendance records. The Scoop on -scope Edward Rubin […]

Seventeenth century Dutch society a hotbed of hedonism? These folks fully enjoyed the pleasures of the flesh, judging by the 34 paintings on view in "Amorous Intrigues and Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans van Mieris."On view at the National Gallery of Art, this retrospective is the first devoted to Van Mieris (1635-1681), perhaps the […]

Children playing with dolls generally make good photo-ops. They fit well on wall calendars, interspersed amongst images of flowers and colorful birds, to be gazed at while listening to CDs with sounds of the rainforest. But photographer David Seymour photographed a different kind of child: the vulnerable, persecuted sort that frolics not on picturesque jungle […]

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize was announced this past March at the Photographer’s Gallery in London, awarding Robert Adams the prize of 30,000 pounds (roughly $52,600.00), which his representative, longtime friend Gerry Badger, promptly donated to a human rights organization. Contemporary Culture and Global Responsibility Emilie Trice Alec Soth, Charles, Vasa, MN. Chromogenic color prints. […]

The art scene here might well be called "burgeoning" if that overused term didn’t already imply so much hyperbole. Clustered around the University of Oklahoma–the largest university in the state with an enrollment of over 30,000 students–a small group of talented artists has emerged that has reawakened the arts community in this small college town. […]

The Taikang Top Space Contemporary Art Center is holding an exhibit consisting of one artwork, a new collaboration by the Chinese artists Hong Hao and Yan Lei, "Taikang Project." The artwork consists of two parts, a large oil painting and three Taikang life insurance certificates. The painting is an expanded version of Van Gogh’s Ward […]

The beginning of a new season replaces the cold winds of winter. The city of Beijing reminds me of a constant changing wind. Everything changes in an instant. As the new blows the old away, what memory or remnant is left of the past in a city bent so headlong on the future, as both […]

"Dream and Fantasy" or maybe fantastic dream, these are the concepts around which unfolds the new group show of young Chinese artists born between the 70s and the beginning of the 80s. Here the border between dream and reality, between asleep and awaken is very subtle as through the eyes of those who observe everything […]