As Italian critic Enrico Pedrini and I drove to La Napoule, memories of my 2002 artist’s residence flitted about my mind. For two months, I worked as an artist in residence at a chateau just west of Cannes on the French Riviera. The American La Napoule Art Foundation owns and manages an 11th century castle […]

I first crossed paths with Noa Ain when I saw her portraits hanging in Petrossian Café a few months ago. I recently met up with her to delve into her inspiration for the works and probe into what compels her to create portraits. When drawing portraits, Ain looks for qualities that move her, asking, what […]

Leah Oates: Your work has an aspect of performance art in it. Is this the case and if so what was your progression towards performance as an artist?Virginie Sommet: I do not know if I can be considered a performance artist but I did perform in the piece 99c Dream, which is a dress made […]

As one of the most expensive cities in the world, New York is the last place anyone expects to find a bargain, and when shopping in the art market, nothing ever goes on sale. The AAF Contemporary Art Fair, more commonly referred to as the Affordable Art Fair is New York City’s Century 21 equivalent […]

Mandy Morrison: What influenced your decision to create (performative) work that would interact in a public sphere?Stephanie Rothenberg: As an art director for major corporations during New York’s Silicon Alley heyday of the 90s, I became obsessed with time management. In tearing myself away from the financial fruits of the CyberCorp spectacle, my art practice […]

Called the “most Mexican of cities,” Guadalajara boasts tequila, charros and mariachis among its unique regional inheritances. Agave, the plant from which tequila is produced only grows in certain regions of Jalisco; any eager tourist can take the tequila train (literally) to Tequila for a tour of a 19th century tequila factory. Charros, a Mexican […]

As a first-rate artist showing at a nice second-tier venue in the third world twice in the past six months, I can report back to my homies in NY with a comparison, and some helpful info. I have come to Beijing for a one-month Artist’s Residency at Red Gate Gallery Bei Gao Studios, fabricating work […]

Upon entering the Rivington Arms gallery, a narrow, sparse exhibition space in Manhattan’s East Village, I was immediately confronted with an artful photograph of one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most acclaimed works, the famous Falling Water House located in Western Pennsylvania. Printed in black and white, the photograph was placed there to pay homage to […]

The work ranges from entire installations to small scale intriguing pieces in finely crafted presentations reminiscent of wunderkammers: strange, curious collections which seem to refer to religious and magical framings of the body in counterpoint to an underlying contemporary theme, the functional commoditization of body parts. The work goes further than this, however, in referencing […]

I met up with the puckish Joseph Aloi, in his home on a quiet Tuesday, who, clad in a worn T-shirt of his own design and two full sleeves of tattoos was in the midst of ordering a garden burger over the telephone as he admitted to me that he was a hypoglycemic. In between […]