Packaging is an art form in Japan, a place in which installations in any department store could rival those of an actual gallery. Selling the art that sold the musicÅc By Chelsea Szendi Schieder   flier for Music Graffiti Japan     Packaging is an art form in Japan, a place in which installations in […]

Predrag Pajdic & Rachel Wilberforce imagine a new secret "Garden" Transplanted Identities By Antonio Pasolini     Rachel Wilberforce, “Swimmers.” Video       Predrag Pajdic & Rachel Wilberforce imagine a new secret "Garden" Serbian-born, London-based Predrag Padjic’s earlier, two-dimensional work examined the internal workings of the human body, depicted as a type of Renaissance […]

What happens when you mix a pro-football player, a passionate interest in the arts, the new MoMA and 60 NYC youth? You get Tiki Barber, player for the NY Giants talking about his own work and introducing the museum to a group of students on the inaugural day of Exploring the Modern, a new program, […]

The work of Kenyan-born British artist Sneh Mehta (b.1954) is now going through a significant mutation, both in terms of aesthetics and content. Oscillating between painting and sculpture, digital photography, film and animation, the work manages to retain a powerful link to Mehta’s dominant subject-matter: the biological mysteries of human life. The new work healthily […]

Large, sweeping art fairs tend to elicit a mixed bag of emotions from Miami’s art viewing miscellany: curiosity from cultured locals eager for the opportunity to see work of a global scale; cynicism from seasoned pundits huffily moaning at the vacuous mechanism of the art market; gluttonous excitement from collectors, well-heeled art honchos and the […]

Boris Mikhalevkin is a master of black-and-white photography. Hie does not require a complex color scheme to convey his thoughts and feelings with the viewer. He expresses, in simple words his thoughts on life and man. "I find black-and-white self-sufficient," says Mikhalevkin. "Moreover, it is a philosophic conception. It is less distracting and easier to […]

The 2005 art fair season has been in Florida. Following the third year of Art Basel/Miami, several smaller fairs took place: the Connoisseur Fair in West Palm Beach, held at Kravis Center; the 15th year of Art Miami; then followed the very newest concept in art fairs, Palm Beach 3. Redesigned and renamed, it really […]

Staring’s radiant, vibrantly colorful abstract paintings, are inspired by water, nature, and New Spirituality. He has shown in the US, Asia, Europe and Brazil. Of his paintings, Staring comments: "Behind a painting is my life, my travels through Asia, the Pacific and Latin America–all those colors, all those impressions. Not just beautiful things; I have […]

W. G. Sebald died in December of 2001 in a car accident in Norwich England during a particularly bad winter when the roads had turned to ice. "I don’t think you can write from a compromised moral position," he had said in an interview earlier that year. His commitment to this position put him at […]

In New York, where anything interesting in the overpopulated expanses of the art world is hard to come by, exists a subculture with a vocabulary rooted in graffiti, tattoo art, hot rod detailing, comic book illustration, punk rock and hip-hop. It’s practitioners look down on Andy Warhol as a vapid rip-off artist who took their […]