In the 80s, on a rough foundation laid in the 60s and 70s by a small group of committed art lovers from Rotterdam, a well-structured art policy came into being. Rotterdam started to compete with the capital city of the Netherlands and succeeded. Those confronted with the hermetic and crowded city of Amsterdam were attracted […]

This summer, the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam hosted “Photosynthesis,” an overview of ecological art by Danish artist Tue Greenfort. Composed of diverse pieces, with varying mood, medium and subject matter, the exhibition can be viewed as a metaphorical ecosystem. Photosynthesis reveals interconnections between artworks that are at first glance unrelated. By […]

Less than two years ago, Dutch artist Joanneke Meester made national headlines with a small pistol, sewn from her own skin. Recently, she participated in the group exhibition, “Fantasy Island – Exhibition Robinson” in Mama: Showroom for Media and Moving Art Rotterdam, located at the Witte de Withstraat. Her work reflects her continued fascination with […]

In 2003, I opened Dust Gallery in Las Vegas with the purpose of exhibiting emerging contemporary artists that lived and worked in Las Vegas. Coming from a non-profit background, specifically the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, I was initially inclined to operate Dust as a non-profit art space. At that time, however, there were […]

Walking at a brisk pace, you could traverse the Witte de Withstraat, a relatively short street in Rotterdam the Netherlands, from one end to another in four minutes. Or, taking in every exciting corner and bend, each nook and cranny, packed with studios, art centers, galleries and more, could last a full day with areas […]

While religious art brings to mind traditional images of the Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ, the wide variety of works currently on display at the University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery and UT Downtown Gallery is proof that, in the world of sacred artistic expression, anything goes."Thresholds: Expressions of Art and Spiritual Life" is the brainchild […]

Artist David Ryan’s layered paintings, assembled from laser-cut sheets of medium-density fiberboard, represent an inspired twist on the Pop Abstraction purveyed by certain other artists who, like Ryan, graduated from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas’ Master of Fine Arts program within the last 10 years. With one of his paintings accepted into MoMA last year, […]

Since 2004, Terry Rosenberg has been working on a new, challenging and somewhat controversial body of work. For over two decades, Rosenberg has been drawing and painting the human figure in motion, which he accomplishes through his practice of observation directly from life as the movement unfolds. Indeed, some of his most celebrated work is […]

The last time I saw artist Ruth Marshall, she cast a weary eye on me and mentioned her prolonged workdays of recent months. Learn why here: Milton Fletcher: Ruth, how would you describe your snakeskin art? How is it related to your life? Ruth Marshall: I think the latest series of snakes I’ve completed would […]

It’s a good thing that Ryan Spencer’s exhibition, “Romance and Adventure,” doesn’t open until December at Dust Gallery in Las Vegas. Spencer will show a series of Polaroid photographs with a common subject, the World Trade Center, and he is glad the work will be seen after the fifth anniversary observations of the September 11 […]