Art Actions from Everyday Life Carla Subrizi A new paradigmfor artistic creation is emerging at the close of the twentieth century. It representsa substantial change in our very perception of the work of art as art ceasesto be a product as much as a way of being and feeling in the world. From an organicallyconceived […]

Auctioning Three “Minor” Works to Acquire a “Major” One Charles Giuliano This past week,it was widely reported that the Museum of Fine Arts intends to auction threeworks from its permanent collection at Sotheby’s in New York. The intendedsale of an exquisite pastel, “Dancer,” (1885 1890) by Edgar Degas,another unfinished pastel by the same artist, “Danseuses […]

Cuba + The Body Politic Cheryl Kaplan The curator GerardoMosquera notes that “political criticism has become a selling point forforeign galleries and collectors.The resulting pitfall is the creation of artabout politics rather than political art. “ In looking at the work of theeleven artists presented in Women Artists of Cuba a curious shift is apparentand […]

May Picks Christopher Chambers Lots of picks this month. First, the art fairs: From Scope I remember Jason ClayLewis’ fuzzy white blob, which turned out to be a rabbit fur encrusted Buddha,in Max Henry’s curated room. Max is curating a show for Stefan Stux thisMay, and there should be more of Lewis’ creations for our […]

Doug Aitken’s video performance in Turin Enrico Pedrini There is a bigexhibition about Doug Aitken running now in Turin, Via Modane, in the new centreof the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation. The show opens with the video installation“New Ocean”, where a most perfect editing rich in special effects leadsus to the borders of new sensitivity. The […]

Halfway Home The Recent Artwork of Uri Dotan Erik Bakke “I’mJewish-American,” “Encino California, US,” “Jewish,”“Jewish,” “I’m Jewish,” are audible fragments in UriDotan’s sound and video piece of 2002 We Fall. The viewer sees Daniel Pearl’sthroat cut. Ted Koppel makes an argument, on his program “Tip of the Spear” documentingthe 3rd Infantry’s two week march to […]

Lachman: The Act of Seeing Geoffrey Hartman I have followedZvi Lachman’s work for many years with growing interest. He is surely oneof the best, if not the best sculptor working presently in Israel. His seriesof “Heads,” at once so material and yet porous, fully modeled, andwhich must be viewed from all sides, bear witness (in […]

Louisa Matthiasdottir Harriet Zinnes In the catalogue essay by Lance Esplund of the exhibition of Louisa Mattiasdottirat the Salander-O’Reilly Gallery in New York City (through April 26, 2003)we are told that the artist usually painted her landscapes by memory. It is notalways the method of artists, and yet Matthiasdottir is studiously adhering toa rigorous objectivity […]

Robert Rauschenberg Harriet Zinnes The artist Robert Rauschenberg hardly needs an introduction. Since the mid-Sixtieshis work has absorbed attention. Perhaps it is his “Combines” thatheld together painting and found objects that still remain his most prized works.His interests are never single. He juxtaposes lithography, painting, photography,silk-screening along even with sculpture to make his signature work. […]

WILLIAM COUPON: First nature Horace Brockington For more than threedecades William Coupon has produced an outstanding body of photographic worksthat defy simple classifications. Having acquired a rich knowledge of the historyof photography, and expressing no limitation towards experimentation and investigationsin the medium, Coupon continues to create works that suggest a multitude of approachesthat speaks to […]