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Obscure catchall titles are the glue that holds most summer group shows together. By the season?s end, one gets the impression that the conceptual centers of curators? brains have grown weary and have opted to rely on their rhetorical powers to pick up the slack. Foundation at Gallery Boreas, Brooklyn Shane McAdams Mike Womack, Untitled […]

In recent years, the Chinese State has positioned itself as a relatively more tolerant gatekeeper of public culture. Allowing the legitimate proliferation of contemporary art galleries and exhibitions, and protecting the 798 Art Factory space from being razed to make way for commercial real estate development by designating 798 as a cultural zone, this tolerance […]

In Istanbul, Turkey, an industrial building has opened its doors as a museum of contemporary art. Pinpointed at the Golden Horn, the new cultural oasis is placed where Turkey?s first thermoelectric power plant, Silahtara?a, halted its operations 20 years ago. Silahtarag�a Art Powerhouse Selma Stern Orhan Cem ?etin. Courtesy of gallery. In Istanbul, Turkey, an […]

It definitely helps when the artist you are curating is your father. Knowing the subtle nuances of his character, strengths, secret weaknesses and idiosyncratic working style of a person greatly contributes to the ultimate communicative factor in which the exhibition installation reaches the audience. Dieter Roth: The National Gallery, Reykjavik Art Museum-Harbor House and Gallery […]

In discussing a group show, what is often of supreme interest is how the artists have interpreted whatever commonality caused the curator to hang them together, even if that thread had been unknown to them at the times of creation Co-Conspirators: Artist and Collector: Chelsea Museum, NY Barbara Rosenthal Miguel Barcelo, Donkey Soup. Courtesy of […]

Movement is at the core of Chris Kremberg?s photographic analyses, which seem to be visual scans for traces of information that ultimately cause bodies to disintegrate. Chris Kremberg at Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin Matthias Harder Courtesy of the artist Movement is at the core of Chris Kremberg’s photographic analyses, which seem to be visual scans […]

The italian summer season has offered colors and liveliness in the works of the artist Francesco Cuomo. The young painter and poet was born in Eboli, a town in the heart of south Italy in the 1973. Francesco Cuomo at Galleria del Palazzo Coveri, Florence, Italy Raffaella Marano Courtesy of the artist The italian summer […]

From adolescence through old age, Picasso?s two great passions were women and art, and these came together in his erotic works. The most famous of these is his monumentally important painting of 1907, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (collection MoMA), which is viewed by art historians as the prototypical modern painting. Picasso Erotica at Leslie Sacks Fine […]

Hanging amongst the surprisingly diverse collection housed at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio is a refreshingly thought-provoking exhibit by Lalla Essaydi. Lalla Esaydi: Converging Territories at Columbus Museum of Art Stephen Gosling Hanging amongst the surprisingly diverse collection housed at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio is a refreshingly thought-provoking exhibit by Lalla Essaydi. […]

There are four new pyramids to be added to the "Pyramid Series 1967-2005:" the Pyramids of Conscience, 2005. The Pyramids of Conscience touch on the immediate issues of clean water, survival, politics, human weakness and need. They refer to the global problem we must soon face with the life-giving substance of water and the politics […]