Artineering: Artist’s Note by Lance Dehn� Yes, I did have an "Erector Set" when I was a kid. I also participated in the games "Mousetrap," "Operation," "Chutes and Ladders," even built a few "Mr. Potato Head" and many, many model airplanes. I still like to watch gadgets; where the steel ball rolls down a chute, […]

"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. Contemporary portraitists love their work, often with unbridled passion. John Howard Sanden of The Portrait Institute tells us, "I opened my portrait studio […]

Edward Enfiajan: Artist Statement According to Edward Enfiajan, Marcel Duchamp’s conception of art as a disposable item, without permanence, art without the museum surroundings has itself final come to an end. The beauty of Duchamp’s idea lies in precisely his own notion of temporality. Duchamp has been around for too long. Beauty or the "ultimate […]

"Progetto Delta" Sherif and Tabo Graffiti, with its aggressiveness, it’s a cool way to express a message with a strong impact. Graphic design (and commercial advertisement rules) is the way to create a nice pack, with aesthetics rules recognized by all. We usually work on graphic desing, expecially for the print, so with "Progetto Delta" […]

Derailing A Train Daniel Rothbart Yoko Ono’s Freight Train, a German boxcar riddled with bullet holes, confronts visitors as they cross the interior courtyard of P.S.1. The effect is particularly stark against the snow which covers the ground. Atop the snow is a short segment of railroad track on which rests Ono’s freight car. Its […]

In the Age of Excess Post-Haste, part two Lee Klein So it was not that the Maine exhibition was not a success but in its pivoting it was an exhibit that changed directions–sort of in the form of a circle squared. Therein Lerner’s new urban rhythm with a hard edge (whereby he tried to import […]

The Shadow Catcher–Paul Pfeiffer Charles Giuliano This exhibition of videos, altered photographs, dioramas and laser produced objects, by Paul Pfeiffer, (born Honolulu, 1966), expands and shrinks from enormous, wall mural scaled projections, to small screen, LCD monitors. Like Alice in Wonderland’s "Eat Me," "Drink Me," we find ourselves exploding and contracting from macro to micro. […]

Rachel Whiteread Harriet Zinnes It is the human presence that engages the British artist Rachel Whiteread. And yet what one sees is rarely a human figure. Always there is space. Always there are walls. And in the present exhibition (through June 5) at the Guggenheim Museum (1011 Fifth Avenue, New York City) entitled significantly "Transient […]

Andy Warhol Drawings and Related Works Harriet Zinnes In whatever Andy Warhol executed whether paint, print, or film he always had a sense of play. Perhaps that’s why he will be remembered whatever his fame in art for his remark that "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Well, it is more […]

icasso/Matisse Harriet Zinnes Perhaps there are no two artists in modern times who have so ardently captured the imaginations and the devotion of art lovers than Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Matisse, the Frenchman, Picasso, the Spaniard, who spent part of his life in France, the art center of the twentieth century, stars of the […]