When I first came to meet Trevor Schoonmaker to write this story, he asked me if I have ever listened to Fela, and when I politely said that I hadn’t heard much of his music, he immediately tossed five Fela CDs at me, and said "Take them, you have to listen to it!" FELA KUTI […]

Anri Sala’s video project, Dammi I Colori, works against the unspoken rules and formulas for creating ‘moving’ media. It shows Tirana’s changing urban facades as a manifestation of its changing socio-political climate. Moved to Stillness — Anri Sala’s Dammi I Colori By Regina Gleeson Anri Sala, “Dammi I Colori” (detail). Single channel video, 15’ 24. […]

Aaron Yassin interviews Raha Raissnia. Painting EPITAPHIOS and Performing SYSTEMS By Aaron Yassin Painting EPITAPHIOS and Performing SYSTEMS By Aaron Yassin Raha Raissnia, “0111”, Oil on Canvas, 79 x 77 inches, 2004. Courtesy of Thomas Erben Gallery Raha Raissnia (born 1968 in Teheran, Iran) is a painter of intense abstract images. Her first solo exhibition […]

Traces of Modern Structural Forms in Contemporary Art . Glass Plane, White Wall, Steel Grid By Sarah Lookofsky Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House. Images ©1997,2001 Peter G. Palumbo Traces of Modern Structural Forms in Contemporary Art The steel frames, the sparse interiors, the white walls, and their glass counterparts are structural elements that designate […]

(National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow) . Self-Portraits and Polka Dots: New Paintings by Alexandra Paperno By Marek Bartelik “Self-portrait #4″, 2002, mixed media on canvas, 100×65 cm (39″x26″) (National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow) A photo-based painting, Self-portrait #4, captures the viewer’s attention. A seven-year-old girl dressed in a school uniform looks back at […]

We are in the midst of a world-wide Balanchine centennial, but another choreographer, born in the same year of 1904, is also being celebrated for his incredible contribution to dance. Celebration: Sir Frederick Ashton By Lori Ortiz Rachel Pepin/Chi Cao of the Birmingham Royal Ballet “Two Pigeons” photo: Eric Richmond We are in the midst […]

Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers by Mary Hrbacek . Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers By Mary Hrbacek “Time-Space Travelers”. 2004. 15 x 40 x 36 inches Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers by Mary Hrbacek In "Space Travelers," the group of twenty-one Pop sculptures and four acrylic and mixed media paintings at Tribes Gallery, artists LIZ-N-VAL merge the simple […]

No mundane display of landscape, the work in "Fuck Mother Nature" ushers viewers into art’s ongoing dispute on the issue of man vs. nature in a confrontational, aggressive and clever way. King Fisher Project Packs A Punch At Mother Nature By Aaron Zimmerman Angelina Gualdoni “The Ebb and Flow”, 2002 acrylic on canvas, 30 x […]

I was warned by artist Keith Sonnier, himself a Louisiana native, that contemporary art has a lot of competition in New Orleans. The Virtual Trailer of Art in New Orleans By Daniel Rothbart   “Creative Industry Art Stream Trailer and Virtual Gallery,” an arts initiative by Jeanne Nathan and Robert Tannen. This photograph was taken […]

For the first time since Bruno Richard Hauptman, police today permitted photographers in the line-up room at headquarters. Gunman Doesn’t Want His Picture Taken By John Perreault     Anthony Esposito, Accused “Cop-Killer”, January 16,1941     For the first time since Bruno Richard Hauptman, police today permitted photographers in the line-up room at headquarters. […]