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(National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow) . Self-Portraits and Polka Dots: New Paintings by Alexandra Paperno By Marek Bartelik “Self-portrait #4″, 2002, mixed media on canvas, 100×65 cm (39″x26″) (National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow) A photo-based painting, Self-portrait #4, captures the viewer’s attention. A seven-year-old girl dressed in a school uniform looks back at […]

We are in the midst of a world-wide Balanchine centennial, but another choreographer, born in the same year of 1904, is also being celebrated for his incredible contribution to dance. Celebration: Sir Frederick Ashton By Lori Ortiz Rachel Pepin/Chi Cao of the Birmingham Royal Ballet “Two Pigeons” photo: Eric Richmond We are in the midst […]

Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers by Mary Hrbacek . Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers By Mary Hrbacek “Time-Space Travelers”. 2004. 15 x 40 x 36 inches Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers by Mary Hrbacek In "Space Travelers," the group of twenty-one Pop sculptures and four acrylic and mixed media paintings at Tribes Gallery, artists LIZ-N-VAL merge the simple […]

No mundane display of landscape, the work in "Fuck Mother Nature" ushers viewers into art’s ongoing dispute on the issue of man vs. nature in a confrontational, aggressive and clever way. King Fisher Project Packs A Punch At Mother Nature By Aaron Zimmerman Angelina Gualdoni “The Ebb and Flow”, 2002 acrylic on canvas, 30 x […]

I was warned by artist Keith Sonnier, himself a Louisiana native, that contemporary art has a lot of competition in New Orleans. The Virtual Trailer of Art in New Orleans By Daniel Rothbart   “Creative Industry Art Stream Trailer and Virtual Gallery,” an arts initiative by Jeanne Nathan and Robert Tannen. This photograph was taken […]

For the first time since Bruno Richard Hauptman, police today permitted photographers in the line-up room at headquarters. Gunman Doesn’t Want His Picture Taken By John Perreault     Anthony Esposito, Accused “Cop-Killer”, January 16,1941     For the first time since Bruno Richard Hauptman, police today permitted photographers in the line-up room at headquarters. […]

Brooklyn-based art-machine Peter Hamlin has a robot for everything. Peter Hamlin Goes Hambot.com By Adam Barraclough   Peter Hamlin “Couchbot” 2004 from hambot.com courtesy of the artist       Brooklyn-based art-machine Peter Hamlin has a robot for everything. Many of them are microscopic, fighting diseases and other rogue nanobots within our very bodies. Some […]

Ever since Andy Warhol revealed the beauty of a can of Campbell’s soup, images of merchandise have adorned the walls of the world’s finest museums. Cindy Sherman: Imaging Art, Imaging Fashion By Cayre English Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) Untitled #279. 1993 From “The New Cindy Sherman Collection,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 1993 Chromogenic color print, […]