With the launch of its Nike ID website, Nike created a brand for individuality. This site potentially offers creative control to the average sneaker buyer, who has the power to color, style, and reconfigure his or her favorite trainers. It is the perfect program, giving buyers the illusion of design freedom while keeping them within […]

The art work I have chosen for the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s 25th Anniversary Preview Art Exhibition does not and should not have any directions, given the diversity of individual artists who have participated. My intentions as a curator were to exhibit artists whose work deserved to be highlighted in a public forum. Creating a […]

Francis Bacon said: "Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse." Not only did Donna Karan’s "Skin Tight: The Sensibility of the Flesh" exhibition and Issey Miyake’s "A-POC" showcase extremely artistic clothing, but each event also illuminated how much Karan and Miyake seek to use fabric as a medium […]

Raffaella Corcione’s latest work presents an energetic inspection of the dynamic forces she sees as controlling our universe–fervent colors are set in opposition to the mellifluous movement of figures; male and female forms are pared and contrasted and set in symmetrical opposition. The vibrant backgrounds of her works seem to converge with the figures, push […]

No visitor to Chelsea should miss Sol LeWitt’s new work, Ripples, a black pencil drawing on a white wall at the back of the James Cohan Gallery. The piece was actually done by his assistants: LeWitt still adheres to the idea of artist as conceptual crafter of the proposition. Ripples is on a modest-sized wall, […]

I first experienced Forrest Myers’ installation The Wall as a child in the mid-70s. I remember that it piqued my curiosity–I was drawn to it, but I didn’t really understand it. Over time, as it became part of my day to day reality, I began to appreciate its subtleties and particularly the play of light […]

The Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A) explores the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. We manipulate living tissue as a point for reflection on our relationships with other living and partially living beings. I feel like fake frogs’ legs tonight Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts Growing a substitute leather jacket […]

In a world packed with alienating digital images that lack the human touch, the exhibition "Out of Bounds" at Glyndor Gallery in the The Bronx presents new works celebrating hands-on craftsmanship and a humanist response to nature. Poetics of Landscape: Out of Bounds and In Bounds Fu Chia-Wen Lien Amy Chan, Triboro, detail, 2005. In […]

You might say that Alberto Casado, the young Cuban artist who paints on luminescent canvases of recycled glass and aluminum foil, has the aesthetic predilections of a magpie. Alberto Casado’s Cuba: Absurdity Gleams in Fool’s Gold Darrell Hartman Alberto Casado, Untitled, 1992, glass, paint, serigraphic inks, and aluminum foil, 17 x 10 1/2 in. You […]

Jemima Stehli once asked London?s top critics and curators to her studio to watch her do a striptease for them. They sat in a chair facing a camera, and held a cable release in their increasingly sweaty palms. Stehli?s back was to the camera. The sitter could choose to take the photo whenever they wanted. […]