From adolescence through old age, Picasso’s two great passions were women and art, and these came together in his erotic works. The most famous of these is his monumentally important painting of 1907, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (collection MoMA), which is viewed by art historians as the prototypical modern painting. Picasso Erotica / Leslie Sacks Fine […]

My first video-gaming experience dates back to the mid-80s, with the landing of a strongly desired Commodore 64 8-bit personal computer in my living room. Press [Pause] Marco Antonini Mauro Ceolin, Solid Landscape: Zelda, 2004. Digital print on Plexiglas. Image courtesy of artist. My first video-gaming experience dates back to the mid-80s, with the landing […]

To describe Matthias Herrmann’s photographs as full frontal, full on, or full anything for that matter, is an understatement. Herrmann has in a decades’ time become one of contemporary art’s unabashed kings of exhibitionism and erotic photography. Matthias Herrmann, Exhibition-ist Au Courant Drew Frist Matthias Herrmann, Untitled (Homage to P. Molinier), 2005. To describe Matthias […]

Kathe Burkhart’s first solo exhibition with Moti Hasson Gallery, "HARD CORE," provides an explicit peek into a pornographic world littered with bric-a-brac and paraphernalia. Burkhart presents a series of voyeuristic photographs shot through the window glass of Amsterdam porn shops. Kathe Burkhart, Give It to Me, Baby! Daria Brit Shapiro Kathe Burkhart, Santa & the […]

In a style that’s signature to Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman, the traveling video installation "Küba" documents 40 stories and portraits from Küba, a run-down area just southwest of central Istanbul. Kutlug Ataman,Where Identity Confronts Form Drew Frist Kutlug Ataman, K�ba, 2005. Produced and commissioned by Artangel. In a style that’s signature to Turkish artist Kutlug […]

If I were asked to outline the main characteristics of the paintings of Xie Nanxing and Wang Xingwei, I would undoubtedly describe them as outstanding, original and enigmatic. Xie Nanxing and Wang Xingwei, Show Me, Catch Me, Sight Unseen Nataline Colonnello Xie Nanxing, Untitled No. 1, 2005. Oil on canvas, 220 x 385 cm. Courtesy […]

Nowadays scientific rationality and technological development have favoured the transformation of values into needs, and allowed the conquest of an ever-expanding industrial society upon a boundless geography. Urban Mythology and Spiritual Drive Beatrice Leanza Instant Archeology, Wu Ershan, “24 H” show, Beijing Film Studio n.1, courtesy of CAEP, 2005 Nowadays scientific rationality and technological development […]

Wallace Berman is a legend of a West Coast counterculture that bloomed during the Beat Generation, although the full extent of his contribution to art and literature has yet to be fully reckoned. Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle (D.A.P./Santa Monica Museum of Art) Essays by Michael Duncan, Kristine McKenna and Stephen Fredman Valery […]

I return from Portland, Oregon and the Portland Institute for Contemporary?s Art?s Time Based Art Festival, a geographical-cultural missionary of sorts. I feel like Malcolm X, ossified and stalwart in my political beliefs, before being thrust into Mecca and realizing that my entire paradigm for understanding the world was unjustly skewed by my poisonous environment. […]

Jody Zellen’s most recent site-specific interactive installation, "Trigger," at Pace Digital University Gallery in New York City, utilizes found images from newspapers and other texts that are transmitted through seven projectors onto the surrounding walls. Jody Zellen, "Trigger" / Pace Digital University Gallery Cecilia Muhlstein Jody Zellen’s most recent site-specific interactive installation, "Trigger," at Pace […]