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Cells, Cells, Cells… The Latest Works by Deniz Ayg�n Selma Stern Deniz Ayg�n, Two Beds in the Cell, (detail), 2003. 50 x 40, Oil on canvas. In Prison   Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind’s song, Bending the banner-poles.   While, […]

The screaming hermit: Simone Terneldo Stefano Pasquini         Simone Terneldo, Graphic rebels, 1967, mixed media on wood. Courtesy the artist � private collections, Bologna, Modena, Reggio, Sondrio (Italy).       He took part in protests, he founded cultural associationsand magazines, he realized theatrical performances, organized conferences, hewrote. He painted. Simone Terneldo, […]

Therese Nortvedt: Innocent Celebrity Selma Stern       Therese Norvedt, Worldpool         Pollock Fine Artstyle="mso-spacerun: yes">  in London is showing new works byTherese Nortvedt, one of Norway’s better-known artists. Her painterly skillseven decorate stamps in that Northern land, and her works are both in thecollections of the National Gallery in Oslo […]

Sue Melikian Steinsieck. Overlapping and layers.Rafael Samper Susan Melikian Steinsieck, The Sky is Crying, 2003, Mixed media. El paisaje interior y el exteriorse solapan en un territorio com�n. Unas veces con los ojos cerrados dirigimosla  mirada hacia dentro y otras,dibujando,  hacemos aflorar nuestropaisaje en forma de im�genes, para que adquieran un color mas vivo al […]

Ter-Oganian: Exercises with Arts and Life Dimitry Topolsky Avdei Ter-Oganian, Avdei Ter-Oganian, Exercise: Yves Klein, 2003. Courtesy Display Gallery, Prague           style=’mso-fareast-language:EN-US’>Avdei Ter-Oganian’s artistic career waslaunched in 1988 with an exhibition mounted in a public toilet inRostov-on-Don, the artist’s native city in southern Russia. That show was apresentation of the Art […]

Eastward Bound: Art in an Unlikely Place Christina Vassallo     Johnston Foster, Untitled, 2003, color pencil and ink on paper, 11″ x 14″. Image courtesy of Rare Gallery.       The New York City art scene isgrowing constantly.  The escalatingcommercialization of the Manhattan gallery industry spawned an eastwardmovement beyond the institutionalized districts of […]

The Crossroad that Points Both Back and Forwards Thalia Vrachopoulos, Ph.D       Sungho Choi, American Pie, 1996         At the Crossroad is a 20-artist show that opened this past October at theGallery Korea to celebrate the centennial of Korean immigration to the UnitedStates. Featuring artists working in and around New […]

At Billyburg Andres Jauregui     Picture of Billyburg       Theycall it “Billyburg”. Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s fabled treeless garden of hip, isnot as gray as one might expect. Toy–sized maples and green ginkgoes garnishthe ruddy urban fa�ade of brown, red and yellow brick. Almost every buildinghas a stoop. Television antennae spike the three and […]

To Be Political It Doesn’t Have to Be Stereotypical Ra�l Zamudio             TheodorAdorno once wrote that the effect of capitalism’s conversion of art into anindustry was the museum’s transformation into a mausoleum; that museumsconsequently became the sepulchers of art. However, Adorno’s observation ofcapitalism’s power should not have only been targeted […]

Sin City Oasis Lori Ortiz       Marlene Tseng Yu, Milky Way, 1996, Oval 120″ x 216″ (305 x 549 cm), Acrylic on canvas.           At a closing poetryreading honoring Marlene Tseng Yu’s magnificent painting exhibit at the LasVegas Art Museum, Donald Kuspit proposed a future with “islands of art…oases.”In […]