Writing in the Guardian newspaper in 2003, Jonathan Jones set the birthday of video art around 1974 in the multiple video images of President Richard Nixon as the first inklings of Watergate slowly came to the public’s attention. Focused, with merciless intensity, on the TV rhetorician, video revealed its talent for penetration peeling away Nixon’s […]

Upon first glance at the press release for Participant Inc’s "Ridykeulous," one knows what they are in for. The show, curated by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman, consists of works by 46 different artists, classified as misandrists. This clear, mocking classification, plainly stated at the top of the release is echoed throughout the entire show. […]

Three shows fill Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center forming this sort of contemporary Tex-Mex overview. In the main gallery hangs 14 of the 16 large acrylic paintings created by two artists. Half of this duo is one of this country’s leading Mexican-American artists and muralists, George Yepes. Selma Hayek, Sin City, Fire Bellies and Angels […]

I love art that when you see it, you can instantly tell it reflects who the artist is in some way. Like maybe it tells their story or maybe a part of them is in every piece. It’s basically what I do, because my life and experiences is the one thing I know everything about, […]

Experimentation, risk and avant-garde, none of these terms are ever very far from Charo Oquet’s mouth. Miami artist and curator Charo Oquet is well-known in Miami as the mother hen of the emerging artist and the voodoo princess of the Diasporic installation. Oquet is the founder of Edge Zones, an artist initiative in Miami dedicated […]

Come summertime, New York art world pundits, aficionados and scribes turn to the surrounding provinces for action. The occasional solo exhibition or outstanding thematic group show within the boundaries of Gotham may yet surface, but, on the whole, the pen points out of bounds, as it were. We investigate the smallish museums in Westchester and […]

As museum and historian take a revisionist approach to the modernist canon, one area that has provided an interesting point of reinvestigation lies in the area of American Abstract Expressionism and abstract painting in general. Ann Gibson writing in her groundbreaking work Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics observes that many of the problems that have limited […]

The playwright John Patrick Shanley commenting on his own work says "Defiance is a necessary step in the life of an individual and in the life of a nation, but it is an intermediate step." Understanding the play as a step in part explains its shape and size, short, sharp and inconclusive. The Few, the […]

When you first walk into Hun Gallery the giant windows that overlook West 33rd Street appear like some ethereal stage production. The space, which features a large main gallery and an adjacent smaller gallery, is in an especially auspicious location in midtown Manhattan. Promise Cecilia Muhlstein Suha Sin, Threshold – The edge of time, 2002. […]

Samuel Beckett’s masterwork, Waiting for Godot, is easier to parody than to describe and devilish to enact. It’s about loneliness and abandonment, about time and memory, in the famous wisecrack, it’s about "nothing happening twice." More respectfully, Godot is an utterly spellbinding and sad poem of our human dilemma, as moving now as when it […]