Critical apparatus? Theoretical scaffolding? Baby, Baby, Where Did Our Love Go? – A Stroll Through Baby Bergamont in LA by James Scarborough Critical apparatus? Theoretical scaffolding? This. A blue southern California sky. Theologians and poets who never read Wittgenstein would call it the vault of heaven. That is why cathedrals have that tall, arced ceiling: […]

The musical metaphor for painting has been familiar since Kandinsky, but the dance metaphor is new, and demands more of painting… Jean Miotte Dances by Donald Kuspit The musical metaphor for painting has been familiar since Kandinsky, but the dance metaphor is new, and demands more of painting: dance is a matter of the body […]

AJ Nadel, in his recent drawings and prints, doubles and manipulates imagery. Doubling and Cutting: AJ Nadel by Erica Snow   AJ Nadel, in his recent drawings and prints, doubles and manipulates imagery. The activity, though, is not arbitrary or wanton as is born out by the two distinct processes pursued in recent works. Before […]

In my youth, shortly after I escaped from New Jersey, I once took in a gallery lecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Adolph Gottlieb, Illustrated by John Perreault In my youth, shortly after I escaped from New Jersey, I once took in a gallery lecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Way […]

The Other is that which renders possible –Gilles Deleuze. Naming the Unnamable by Ra�l Zamudio The Other is that which renders possible –Gilles Deleuze To begin an essay with the title "Naming the Unnamable," is to embark on a conundrum freighted with uncertainty analogous to other paradoxes of an artistic, philosophical, and linguistic nature: "in […]

F. T. Marinetti: Selected Poems and Related Prose Translated by Elizabeth R. Napier (Yale University Press, 2002) – by Valery Oisteanu Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) was the founder of Futurism, an early 20th-century revolution that began in Italy as a literary movement and expanded to influence painters, musicians, dramatists, architects, and graphic artists everywhere. F. […]

The German-born surrealist artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), best known for his life-size pubescent dolls in sexually explicit positions, devoted an artistic lifetime in the creation of overt sexualized images of the female body… Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety by Valery Oisteanu     The German-born surrealist artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), best known for his […]

Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren, known as Matta, whose hallucinatory paintings made him a major surrealist, died on Saturday November 23, 2002 in Tarquinia, Italy. Roberto Matta (1911-2002) by Valery Oisteanu Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren, known as Matta, whose hallucinatory paintings made him a major surrealist, died on Saturday November 23, 2002 in Tarquinia, […]

At 232 pages and with 230 illustrations, this impressive catalogue is a seminal publication… Jennifer Reeves by Valery Oisteanu At 232 pages and with 230 illustrations, this impressive catalogue is a seminal publication, a compendium of works of Marcel Duchamp from 1903 to 1968, including photographs, documents and assorted objects that were exhibited this past […]

In order to avoid a further procrastinating of vacuuming the apartment, considerations of character are in order. Missing the Dust Balls by Jennifer Reeves In order to avoid a further procrastinating of vacuuming the apartment, considerations of character are in order. Roberta Smith, art critic for The New York Times, touches on the subject of […]