Author Archives: jolanta

With "History of History," Hiroshi Sugimoto’s personal collection of ancient traditional Japanese and East Asia artworks, being shown alongside his own photographs at the Japan Society in New York City, and the artist’s first major retrospective "End of Time," currently at the Mori Museum in Tokyo–both exhibitions will be traveling to the Smithsonian Institute in […]

The art of the Lithuanian, Paris-based artists Svai and Paul Staninkas originates from an interesting yet seemingly idiosyncratic and maybe even an altogether contradictory topos. Svai and Paul Staninkas, Sex and Death Raul Zamudio Svai and Paul Stanikas, Your Father, Your Sons and Your Daughter, 1997. The art of the Lithuanian, Paris-based artists Svai and […]

All that is ever stored, placed in safekeeping, or shored up against the elements and against time, has already inevitably entered the realm of the fragment. Colette’s Storeroom of the Imagination lan Jones Colette, Mata Hari and the stolen potatoes” Mischtechnik auf Leinwand All that is ever stored, placed in safekeeping, or shored up against […]

In late August, Hurricane Katrina devastated America’s Gulf Coast. Horrific images of Americans in the most dire of circumstances were broadcast into our living rooms and across the world. Bodies bloated and floating. Resurrections Katrina / Latin Collector Gallery, NY Dwayne Rodgers . Courtesy of the artist In late August, Hurricane Katrina devastated America’s Gulf […]

In the exhibition "Active Ingredients: Film, Stone, Plastic, Pigment," four artists whose mediums are radically different are brought together to explore how their depiction of reality synthesizes a common thread within their work, creating a very interesting dialogue with the pieces represented in this show. "Active Ingredients" / Broadway Gallery, NY Jason Bryant Jason Bryant, […]

Creating art in collaboration with patients at mental health facilities is not at all out of the ordinary when considering the work of Javier Tellez. S-T-E-R-E-O-V-I-E-W is unique in that it is Tellez’s first work in conjunction with patients within the United States. Appropriately, the work is displayed in the same borough where it was […]

The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Rachel Whitehead is the sixth artist to receive the Unilever Series commission to fill the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Rachel Whitehead, Contained in the Tate? Arhan Virdi Rachel Whiteread, Embankment, 2005. Tate Modern, Turbine Hall. (c)Marcella Leith, Tate Photography. The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Rachel Whitehead is the sixth artist to receive […]

Cuban-born artist Arturo Cuenca, as a person and as an artist, pulls no punches with his thoughts, intentions or expressions. Those who have been lucky enough to follow his career over the past 25 years will find this exhibition of particular interest, because these works are immensely intimate and personal. Arturo Cuenca, "Aesthasy (Aesthetic+Ecstasy)" / […]

In his novel Transparent Things, the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov claimed that certain objects and places acquire a "time transparency" in the human consciousness. The past superimposed on the present creates multilayered spaces in the memory of human experience. The project White District by the leading Moscow artist Aleksander Konstantinov provokes similar thoughts. Aleksander Konstantinov […]

As a native son I never planned to move back to Kansas City after graduation from a nearby University. After a failed attempt to gain employment on the West Coast after the dotcom bubble burst, I retreated back to my hometown, like the Prodigal Son I was, enveloped in a support system that I never […]