“Bodies discovering dreams” is the theme of this year’s Beijing International Dance Festival, an event that started in 2004 and that, for the first time, dedicates an annual contribution to the cultural environment of the capital city while providing the artists with more communication opportunities. From this perspective, body and language are today brought onto […]

Popular culture in everyday life is all around us. It should be the most familiar and common thing. However, as Hegel said: familiarity is not true knowledge. We actually know very little of the popular culture in our everyday life. From the beginning of the 20th century, due to its fast development, society has gradually […]

Jon Schluenz is a New York based artist who works with paintings, installations and sculpture. His latest show in the M Gallery titled “M is for Mmmm” proves him to be not only talented, but also on his way up in the New York art scene. I had a talk with Jon about his thoughts […]

It was a surprise to meet a genuine, happy girl with positive energy when sitting down with the young, New York-based artist Ali Gallagher, whom I knew painted dark and vivid imagery.  I talked with Ali and discussed her recent artworks. We touched upon how death, spirituality and the unknown influence her overall aesthetic.Victoria Mayer: […]

The notion of uncertainty is both disconcerting and liberating. By definition, uncertainty resists definition. Most synonyms for the word carry negative connotations: doubt, skepticism, mistrust, suspicion. While the term may seem unsettling, and perhaps appropriately reflects a shared awareness of the complexity of modern life, uncertainty can also be quite compelling in an artistic context. […]

Not unlike others involved in the art world, I viewed attentively from beginning to end Ric Burns’ four hour public-television feature about Andy Warhol, admiring it initially for excerpts of 16 mm films not seen in decades (especially Chelsea Girls, which is his masterpiece), and then for insightful commentary by the critics Stephen Koch, Wayne […]

Childhood is the most uncertain period in human life, both physically and psychologically. A group exhibition, “Little Monsters,” presents four different artists whose works express an idea of children as sentimentalized creatures in uncertain reality. Selected works range from painting and drawing to silkscreen print, all with fantastical scenes and nostalgia. Maria Isabel Arango expresses […]

When creativity, philosophy and human wisdom are integrated, art, including architecture, will be born. And it will form a city, a city that will produce its own culture and generate its own civilization. Civilization has also created constant war and environmental destruction. I believe the realization of the fact that once we were all children […]

“Reconstruction” explores the many subtleties and shapes of survival and transformation using all manner of media, from painting to video and performance; the nightly news is a litany of destruction. The wreckage surrounds us—towers fall, waves crash, the world is at war and love is hard to find. But reconstruction and renewal spring eternal even […]

Sometimes it’s OK to fall in love with pretty things and the alluring paintings of LA artist Audrey Kawasaki may well merit adoration through their aesthetic appeal alone, but there is a bit more to the gorgeous fantasy characters she creates on wood panel after wood panel. Death via skull imagery abounds in her works […]