Author Archives: jolanta

In the Tao Te Ching by ancient Chinese ideologist, Laotzu, in the Chunqiu Period of China, he proposed that the number one derives from Tao, two derives from one, three derives from two and everything on earth derives from the number three, which is considered to be the root of everything on earth and it […]

Since opening in 2002, the Museum of Sex in Manhattan has met some paradoxical forms of reception. Not everyone knows what to make of an institution whose mission is "to preserve and present the history, evolution and cultural significance of human sexuality." A complaint frequently voiced by tourists who describe their visitor experiences on websites […]

"Object Lessons" is a show that engages us with a techno-poetic analysis and post-digital critique of media and cognition, born from the Josef Albers axiom "good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers." The work in the show conjures up the conditions and context for the viewer to […]

There are many ways to wander around Didier Mahieu’s work "A Day Elsewhere," Une Journée D’Ailleurs, and each of them will make a different experience, a different story, a different history. As a Journée, a day’s travel, a journey through the mind of a century, this work of many layers is very precise and personal, […]

Six paintings by Millar Kelley are featured in the "EXPANSE" show at Studio 12N in Manhattan’s Garment District. Most of the works feature distinctive visual geometric shapes such as ovals or rectangles–favored motifs of Kelley’s. She uses them to imply qualities of personality and behavior in otherwise abstract settings. On the whole, these new pieces […]

As a working class citizen of the good old U.S. of A., Scott Hammond has little time to take elaborately set up photographs in studio situations, as do many of his colleagues in the photo world. So between a full-time job and taking university classes in Columbus, Ohio, he sticks with his mainstay, the Polaroid […]

The objects that adorn the glass cases of the show "Obsolete, Odd and Absolutely Ooky: Stuff from the DAR Museum Vaults" on view at the Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) until September 2nd are ironically accessible and modern. According to the press release, the 18th and 19th Century objects "were useful, […]

São Paulo-based, Edouard Fraipont produces a series of phantasmagoric photographs which explore re-conceptions of body and self. Through negotiations of time and light inherent to the photographic medium he creates an enquiry in to the ways in which a being can distance itself from its existence as a unit. Fraipont works with alternatives of a […]

On Good Friday April 14th, Zito Studio Gallery presented a newfangled concept in the world of "Main Events," featuring a bogus battle advertised as a "championship bout" between wandering Mexican artist, Primitivo Cuevas and Lower East Side art icon, Zito. Painting instead of punching, this canvas combat is a bit more of a lightweight match. […]

Ubiquitous as it is today, an obsession with glamour has produced multifaceted reflections in contemporary art production. Hence this year’s Whitney Biennial catalogue cover adorned with Marilyn Minter’s luscious painting–art that specifically thematizes this phenomenon. In her paintings, Minter uses a highly polished photorealist technique that evokes commercial fashion photography, a medium she doubles in. […]