Walking down a nondescript street in East Berlin in the middle of the night in the dead of winter poses infinite possibilities. Behind every crumbling fa?ade is the pent up aggression of a city trembling with creative anxiety. Again for the First Time Emilie Trice Maurizio Cattelan, Bidibidobidiboo, 1996. Taxidermic squirrel and mixed media. 50x58cm. […]

Cynthia Bradfield Crier, the Southwest-born artist, has lived in New York for decades and worked as a professional architect for most of her life. But two years ago she realized that she was no longer inspired by her profession. Building from the Ground Up, Spreading a Little Color Tina Kesting Cynthia Bradfield Crier, THE-GATES-II. Cynthia […]

When American audiences first went to the movies in 1896, they saw monumental subjects such as Niagara Falls projected onto canvas screens framed with huge gold frames. Moving Images, Moving Paintings Nancy Matthews John Sloan, Sun and Wind on the Roof, 1915. Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s […]

At the last S?o Paulo Biennial, 2004, David Batchelor and João Paulo Feliciano played with light, saturated color fields and chromatic light sculptures. Color Me "A Light Exhibition" Camila Belchior David Batchelor, Candelabro de Santiago in studio. Courtesy of Galeria Leme. At the last São Paulo Biennial, 2004, David Batchelor and João Paulo Feliciano played […]

The sudden death of a young artist is always an event that makes you think. Elia, (born in Adria ? Italy as Alessandro Greggio in 1968) died in an accident last August, falling from a window. In the midst of a career that can barely be called successful, Elia did not commit suicide. Simply Elia […]

In a brief pocket of time in the always-busy life of Christian Bonnefoi, this interview took place while driving in Bonnefoi_s car one very foggy and rainy evening, between Vitry-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, and his home in Montargis, France, south of Paris. Present, past, future_ Ron Johnson Courtesy of the artist. In a brief […]

If last summer?s version of "Drunk vs. Stoned" was more drunk (rambling and spatially discombobulated), this year?s sequel, "Drunk Vs. Stoned 2," is surely more stoned. Drunk vs. Stoned 2: Revenge of the Stoned Elwyn Palmerton R. Crumb, My True Inner Self. No date. Ink on paper, 8 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches. If last […]

It’s hard to remember how we managed to eat and breathe in those ancient days before cell phones and the Internet. This summer I received announcements from several art galleries and museums advertising that they are switching their press releases over to electronic media, completely. Art Scam Christopher Chambers One of the lovely snapshots that […]

Pablo Helguera is a New-York based artist whose multimedia installations and performance pieces ask and investigate questions of memory, loss, and culture. A Brief History of Finitude Leah Oates Pablo Helguera, installation view of “The School of Panamerican Unrest.” Image courtesy of Julia Friedman Gallery. Pablo Helguera is a New-York based artist whose multimedia installations […]

If childhood is a time of whimsy, imagination, and invention, it is no wonder so much artwork harkens back to this early and irretrievable period of free play. Certain artists have reveled in the project of reconstructing children?s games, finding various exuberant paths back to the unfettered world of overflowing toy chests and impenetrable jury-rigged […]