The movie Fahrenheit 911 is only one of the many vehicles that have been recently released to both enlighten and fill the entertainment medium with political content. POLITICAL ENTERTAINMENT By Jeanette HendlerThe movie Fahrenheit 911 is only one of the many vehicles that have been recently released to both enlighten and fill the entertainment medium […]

I remember seeing an ad in one of my magazines (was it the New Yorker or Gourmet? Solaris:Eclipsing Memory, Bill Albertini @ Alona Kagan Gallery By Scott Weiland   Bill Albertini.       I remember seeing an ad in one of my magazines (was it the New Yorker or Gourmet? I don’t recall). It […]

When photography emerged into the arena of fine art as a medium questioning truth, vision, and representation, conservative critics argued that it is not the artist’s function to portray social realities as they have no place in the museum space. Photo Fiction By Zhanna Veyts   Philip-Lorca diCorcia (American, born 1953) Untitled from “Cuba Libre,” […]

Sometimes a retrospective is powered by the fame of the artist or the work’s relevance to historians, and is no longer alive under its own steam. Lee Bontecou’s Retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago By Amoreen Armetta Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1998 Sometimes a retrospective is powered by the fame of the artist or […]

The title, One to One-Visions, best expresses my goal for this exhibition — to introduce the daily lives and living environments of the participating artists, to mix their photographs of very different styles and to exhibit them as a unit. Chi Peng. Sprinting Forward By Feng Boyi   Chi Peng. Sprinting Forward       […]

So, I asked Vanessa Buia, "Where’s the other artist in this exhibition?" You see, I assumed the 3’ x 4’ glossy photographs of toys were all by the same person. June Picks By Christopher Chambers Nancy Brooks Brody, “Tied Tree”. 29 x 23 inches, Pencil and gouache on paper. 2002 So, I asked Vanessa Buia, […]

Cecilia Jurado doesn’t resign herself to just looking. She knows that beyond the obscene materiality of things there exists a world she needs to explore. Chromatic Imaginings: Julio Llerena introduces emerging artist Cecilia Jura By Julio Llerena (Editor of "SpanishVogue")       Cecilia Jurado, Tripthyc: ‘Sky,” “Fog,” “2” Chromogenic color prints 40 x 40 […]

A group of people sit on an art museum bench in front of Rembrandt’s painting, Katrin Korfmann and the Esthetic of the Conscientious Fragment By James Scarborough Installation at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. 2003. http://www.katrinkorfmann.com/works/publiccubeschiphol/publiccube.html A group of people sit on an art museum bench in front of Rembrandt’s painting, The Night Watch. We see them […]

Infusing Spirit into Pop: Baptiste Ibar at the Lab – By L.P. Streitfeld Baptiste Ibar has recently emerged with a hybrid style of narrative painting that utilizes mythological components to address a crucial period of transition in global politics. Infusing Spirit into Pop: Baptiste Ibar at the Lab By L.P. Streitfeld   Baptiste Ibar, “GROUND […]

High above the Hudson River, two hours by train from Manhattan, stands Olana, a national historic site once the home of the Hudson River School painter, Frederic E. Church (1826-1900). Far Above the Hudson’s WatersBy Piri Halasz Andy Wainwright. “Olana State Historic Site”. Photo courtesy of The Olana Partnership. © Andy Wainwright       […]