The experience of video art is becoming closer to film in order to tap into art’s powerful transportative quality. Including the drama and suspense of film, as well as a dry documentary-style, video projection and video installation aims to be interactive or overwhelming quality, comparable to an IMAX experience. A total art experience is afforded […]

Be it a building, a body of water, a field of corn or a city park, Angel Orensanz is known for transforming anything that he touches into a work of art. In his recent exhibition Reflectant Universe at the Mãe d’Agua das Amoreiras Reservoir, one of the Museu da Agua’s three Lisbon exhibition spaces, the […]

Lee Wells is a NYC-based video and installation artist and independent curator. Wells was named the Independent Curator of the Year by the -scope Art Fair, has exhibited around and has organized exhibitions nationally and internationally.Leah Oates: Please speak about your background and how you became an artist.Lee Wells: I moved around a bunch as […]

For more than 3,000 years farmers have been using scarecrows to protect their crops from hungry birds. The Greeks carved wooden scarecrows to look like Priapus, the son of the god Dionysus and the goddess Aphrodite. Priapus, who was quite ugly, played in the vineyards, scaring the birds away and protecting the grapes for a […]

Pittsburgh boasts among its varied cultural contributions the birthplace of the world’s most notorious contemporary artist, Andy Warhol. Despite the fact that Warhol fled the city of steel, the spirit of the pop art patriarch persists, most obviously through the Warhol Museum, as well as through a myriad of alternative artistic centers and initiatives. Steel […]

There is something very nostalgic about the photographs. I can recall being in the fifth grade and begging and pleading with my parents to buy me the $100 pair of sneakers, but their concern that someone would gun me down and run off with my “Jordans” was the obstacle that kept me from being able […]

Steven Psyllos: In your opinion, what is the current state of affairs in the art world as it applies to digital art? How receptive are galleries to exhibit this form, and where else do you find support? Andres Ramirez Gaviria:  The terms “digital” or “media” art have come to encompass an array of practices so […]

Nestled in the bottom floor of Williamsburg’s public art space Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn-based collective Saviour Scraps presents “Cabin Comforts,” a dual installation space and store featuring over 70 contributing artists seamlessly blending an art experience within the simulated comforts of home. “Cabin Comforts” is an alternative to the competitive art world and traditional gallery […]

When recalling the beginning of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe, vague visions of the fall of the Berlin Wall and thousands of screaming teenagers are inseparable from images of music videos on MTV that so powerfully marked that moment of transition. In a way, the two will always be linked. If the 1980s […]

Bo Yun (Li Yongcun) is among the few modern Chinese artists who, while maintaining respect for the ancient heritage of Chinese ink painting, have succeeded in integrating new ideas and techniques that give their work a contemporary feel. Bo Yun’s vertical diptychs in ink and color on paper, like ancient Chinese scrolls, are microcosms of […]