Confronted with Rubens’ The Life of Marie de Medici in the Louvre, an epic sequence full of pale, voluptuous and muscular bodies engaged in mythological dramas, a young man sits on a bench and contemplates for a while. Shahryar Nashat in the Swiss Pavilion James Wescott Shahryar Nashat, The Regulating Line, 2005. Digital Video, 3 […]

Franz Graf is one of Austria´s finest living artists, who along with his countryman Helmut Federle and neighbourhood Swiss artists John M. Armleder and Gerwald Rockenschaub was labeled as one of the European Neo Geo artists in the 1980s. Still Graf has never reached the commercial heights as the other three artists have, but rather […]

London’s Economist plaza sits in the centre of town, near Bond Street where the shoppers congregate and the Royal Academy of Art where the proper English go to see art. A few of the blue-chip art galleries have their homes nearby, and tourists flock to take photographs of themselves in the centre of neighboring Piccadilly […]

Although gestural abstraction continues to be earmarked as one of the few taboo modes of expression in the contemporary art scene–barring a few exceptions, such as Cecily Brown–the work of Xavier Busquets triumphantly repudiates the ascendant dogma. Abstract Transgression Barbara Hatchett courtesy of the artist Although gestural abstraction continues to be earmarked as one of […]

London’s Economist plaza sits in the centre of town, near Bond Street where the shoppers congregate and the Royal Academy of Art where the proper English go to see art. A few of the blue-chip art galleries have their homes nearby, and tourists flock to take photographs of themselves in the centre of neighboring Piccadilly […]

Gardens have always held a deep significance for Laurie Blum, as they had for the great Persian mystics whose poetic visions are memorialized in her paintings. Sacred Gardens Shari Keller, Ph.D. Laurie Blum, Nightingales and Roses, Shiraz, Iran, 2004. Gardens have always held a deep significance for Laurie Blum, as they had for the great […]

In the Tao Te Ching by ancient Chinese ideologist, Laotzu, in the Chunqiu Period of China, he proposed that the number one derives from Tao, two derives from one, three derives from two and everything on earth derives from the number three, which is considered to be the root of everything on earth and it […]

Since opening in 2002, the Museum of Sex in Manhattan has met some paradoxical forms of reception. Not everyone knows what to make of an institution whose mission is "to preserve and present the history, evolution and cultural significance of human sexuality." A complaint frequently voiced by tourists who describe their visitor experiences on websites […]

"Object Lessons" is a show that engages us with a techno-poetic analysis and post-digital critique of media and cognition, born from the Josef Albers axiom "good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers." The work in the show conjures up the conditions and context for the viewer to […]

There are many ways to wander around Didier Mahieu’s work "A Day Elsewhere," Une Journée D’Ailleurs, and each of them will make a different experience, a different story, a different history. As a Journée, a day’s travel, a journey through the mind of a century, this work of many layers is very precise and personal, […]