Author Archives: jolanta

Patricia Johanson doesn’t merely decorate with site specific art–she cultivates and grows the site itself. For twenty years now, her parks, ponds, marshes and labyrinth-like paths have metamorphosed ecological disasters into halcyon refuges. What catalyzes these projects? Often, municipal construction projects like a pump station in San Francisco Bay or, in the case of her […]

"Imagine a mile-and-a-half of surreal gardens in the sky, a linear stroll where time slows down and the spectacle of nature in the city is heightened to new levels of surprise and pleasure. And the High Line raises a host of extraordinary opportunities for new synthesis of ecology, art, urbanism, and urban culture." —Field Operations […]

"I have a no-shoes apartment," Anne-Katrin Spiess tells me as I walk into her gorgeous West Village home. I tuck away my boots. How tightly controlled she keeps her living space–the carefully constructed open spaces and precisely placed home furnishings serve a fixed, holistic decorating scheme. Man vs. Nature: Nurturing the Divide Emily Lodish Anne-Katrin […]

On October 5, 2004, I installed an enormous mountain of ripe bananas – roughly 30,000 of them – on the North Terrace of London‚s Trafalgar Square. After sitting on the Terrace all day, like a strange organic sculpture, the bananas were given away to the audience totally free of charge. "30,000 Bananas" Doug Fishbone Eat […]

With their dark corners, swampy valleys and dense thickets, forests harbor unknown, intricate, even invisible ecosystems. Not to mention innumerable Pucks, hobbits, and other sprites, rabbit holes, hidden caves and other portholes. These life- and imagination-sustaining spaces are quickly diminishing to make way for cash crops, office paper. Enchanted Forests of the 21st Century Molly […]

It was a quiet opening for a quiet work. Down at Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, thousands crowded the piers to watch October National Day fireworks bounce off the night sky, but at 1a Space in To Kwa Wan, a boat made of mirrors reflected only an empty room. Despite holiday fanfare elsewhere, Cattle Depot’s latest […]

The Video Wind Chimes is a public artwork/video installation that connects the movement of the wind to the revelation of the pervasive electromagnetic fields that inhabit the atmosphere, particularly those that are encoded and transmitted as part of broadcast television. The piece consists of four video projectors mounted inside of winged housings, suspended 20′ above […]

On October 16, I attended Photo New York–an exciting event, the walls were filled. Even though the scale of the fair was not so large, there was an enormous variety of work: vivid colors, and large format images immediately caught my eye. The Image Hunter: capturing dreams By Sejin Cheong On October 16, I attended […]

Biblically speaking, museum architecture, is the most exciting and provocative thing about the artworld today. Architecture Is the New Art: The New Museum of Modern Art By Edward Rubin Architecture Is the New Art: The New Museum of Modern Art By Edward RubinComposite photo of the renovated and expanded Museum of Modern Art, 54 Street […]

Edvard Munch’s The Scream has seemingly resurfaced from its daring midday theft from the Munch Museum in Oslo last August. Theatrical Openings By Catherine Krudy Theatrical OpeningsEdvard Munch’s The Scream has seemingly resurfaced from its daring midday theft from the Munch Museum in Oslo last August. It reappeared in the penthouse of the Roger Smith […]