Drawing the Line – Who Cares About Illustration? Thomas Girst It’s rathercurious that in the land of George Grosz and John Heartfield, illustration nevertook hold in newspapers after World War II. Compared to American magazines andpapers, German press publications seldom provide more than a single sketchy drawingas daily artistic political commentary. Oftentimes just it is […]

“Personal Things” Vladimir Sitnikov There is a lot of pop art going on in Moscow at the moment. The exhibition “PersonalThings” was shown in Moscow this year, exposing pop art by one of Russia`smost famous contemporary artists, – Vladimir Sitnikov. Vladimir Sitnikovwas born in 1958 in Moscow and started studying art at the V. Motovilov`s […]

"To Love, Honor and Cherish: The Role of Contemporary Portraiture" Jeanine Jackson A successful portrait, much like a good marriage, is the result of a profound commitment to love, honor and cherish. All quotations and images are included with kind permission of each artist to use in this article or in the NY Arts Magazine […]

The Lyricism of Pure Thought Mark Daniel Cohen Art is the stage upon which the drama of intelligence is enacted. A work of art is a thought — for all the reliance on and enhancements due to skill and dexterity, for all the diffidence typical of artists’ statements of intention, for all their general uncertainty […]

Happy Days – It’s all well and dandy in a disquieting new world Stefano Pasquini Not much has been happening nowadays in contemporary art. At least on this side of the globe. Yet I’m starting to feel a certain disquieting atmosphere in many works of art I experienced in the past few months. Especially from […]

Digging for Artist’s Books in New York Elaina Ganim New York is not the book farm that it used to be. Gargantuan publishing houses have run over the city independents. On the fringe of the fringe of small press/ no press publishing, artist’s books–where the book itself is conceived of as an artwork–thrive despite the […]

Publishing Granary’s Books: A Conversation in the Margins Pantale Xantos A retrospective of independent publisher Granary Books, "Publishing Granary’s Books: A Conversation in the Margins," will open at The University of California at San Diego’s Mandeville Special Collections Library on April 26th and run until June 27th. A unique and significant small publisher, Granary Books […]

Patrick Wilson at Los Angeles Projects Showing at The Armory Show James Scarborough Andre Breton pitied a life of presence, nothing but presence. Well, as Patrick Wilson shows, other-ness has its drawbacks too. He makes these three pieces, each with three panels, from alkyd, acrylic, oil and pigment on canvas. He titles each with a […]

The Flaneur as Botanist Raul Zamudio Miguel Angel Rios’ recent three-channel DVD piece titled, Ni me busques….No me encuentras (Do not search for me….You will not find me) (2002), is located in an interesting juncture in the artist’s trajectory. A protean path that began with painting, sculpture, drawing and works on paper which then morphed […]

News item: "The physician with a scalpel wore bright blue scrubs and a signature black fedora. The cadaver lay on a metal tray below a large copy of Rembrandt’s ‘Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp." In the former brewery in East London, the television cameras turned, a paying audience squirmed and Britain’s first public autopsy […]