The inhabitants of Buenos Aires are called portenos and they refer to their city as the Big Apple. The similarities with the north-east Big Apple do not end there. Like New York, Buenos Aires is a checkerboard of neighborhoods. The city has 22 barrios. The biggest is Palermo, home to J.L. Borges, which is subdivided […]

It all started with the "Big Bang." That was a big deal, and now we’re all trying to see the "Big Picture." Seems whichever way we turn today we’re confronted with "bigness." "Bigger is better" became the macho credo for artists in New York with the ascension of Abstract Expressionism. Little Women Curator James Kalm […]

The progression of Modern British Art through the past 25 years is something to celebrate, no? Well, I thought so, but upon viewing the exhibition "Revelation: Reflecting British Art in the Arts Council Collection" at Salford’s the Lowry Gallery, it would appear as if I was the only one who thought there was cause for […]

Lars Fisk’s second solo show at Taxter and Spengemann, a laconic presentation, consists of just three pieces but like a young gladiator just beginning to flex his muscles, he delivers a powerful punch. Trashcan is the most arresting piece here. What looks like a life-sized slightly dented garbage pail turns out to be meticulously carved […]

A few years back a friend and I decided to look up the Ä–cole Freudienne de Paris, the group founded by the great psychoanalytic thinker Jacques Lacan to carry on his work. We ended up as winter night fell on a silent, gray Parisian street with a series of unmarked doors stretching into the fog. […]

Staged via various media, Nathaniel Stern’s work enacts the interstices of body, language and technology. It seeks to force us to look again at the relationships between the three, and invites us to experiment with their relation. His body of work can, perhaps, be described as an exploration of the interstitial itself–revisiting between technology and […]

In his exhibition "New Work," Ron Arps entertains ideas between the abstract and the figurative. Through this exploration Arps creates a powerful and attractive sense of mood and place. The 30 or so paintings in the exhibition span only a year and are varied yet connected. Setting the Mood Ron Johnson Ron Arps, Stay or […]

More akin to the simplified beauty of James Turrell than the stark face of minimalism, Heather Hutchison’s recent work elaborates on her trademark technique of suggested space through veiled color. The panels consist of simplified planes in translucent hues. Fluid strokes of tinted wax appear as bands across a Lucite surface. Capturing the Beast in […]

When a word is repeated, it loses its meaning and becomes merely a sound. Every day we repeat our motions, walking to and from the loo, staring off transfixed into space after feeding the cat, serving a cup of tea. The tracks of our motions would become congealed if we left a gleaming slimy snail […]

Bubble-gum free? Do you ever notice the blackish spots either on the pavements or on the roads? There are none in Singapore.A clean and green city-state set in the lush tropical equator tempered only by its monsoon seasons, Singapore has always had a bad reputation, despite its clinical and lush appearance. Chewing Singapore Gum Zulharli […]