Leah Oates: When did your interest in the arts begin and when did you know that you where going to be a curator and arts organizer? Robert Curcio: I started out as an artist graduating from Tyler School of Art in Philly. After school I started exhibiting and working for galleries and some artists.   Leah […]

We are often asked at our speaking engagements whether we truly believe that a work of art can change the political landscape, and we are quick to respond that we do not. However, we also mention in all haste that it’s that very question that produces this negativity. While no single work of art has […]

I see my mixed media sexual paintings as political reclamations. The sexual image is used to sell everything from cars to toothpaste, as if our bodies have become products we no longer own. I paint oil over acrylic over collage. I embellish the paintings with glass beads and blood.   The subject of the documentary […]

On September 14, 2007, the New York-based artist Panos Tsagaris performed Whom I Love I Chastise with Many Rods in Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, in Leipzig, Germany. In front of talismanic icons of sacred symbols and words, he “housed” himself and a 10-year-old girl within a magical circle that he made with charcoal from burned […]

Je ne sais pas si l’on peut véritablement placer mon travail dans «l’art érotique», car mes motivations n’ont rien à voir avec celles de poser un univers fantasmatique ou une libido sur papier. Frédéric Poincelet lives and works in Paris. Frédéric Poincelet, Untitled, 2007. Ballpoint pen and typex on paper, 18 x 13 inches. Courtesy […]

I am immersed in the culture of painting and its potential for alchemical transformation. Central to the content of these recent works is the readability of the imagery. For these works, I have used photography as a component of the picture making process. The photographic element has a skin-like quality, which is physically integrated into […]

It has been 14 years since I engaged myself in performance art. The ultimate goal of performance art is to break the boundaries between art and life, to propose new visions and concepts. Chinese contemporary art has been evolving for the past thirty years, making its fair share of contributions to the global cultural scene. […]

There are many kinds of painters. Some paint what they see. Others paint how they feel. Jia Qiong, of one kind, is always looking for life, memories, and fantasies in the paintings that he makes. His life, he says, is an unending quest. In One Hundred Years of Solitude—his favorite book—there is a sentence: getting […]

I am originally from the Chicago where I attended the Art Institute of Chicago for my BFA and MFA. At the time, I was studying painting and drawing, but quickly evolved as a visual artist from a “photo realistic” style into what would later become mostly multi-media installations. Ellen Levin is a New York-based artist-activist.   […]

With the demise of British colonial rule, people of Hong Kong began to reflect upon the place they lived. Standing at the meeting point of Chinese and Western cultures, they are lost in their own culture and history. A sense of loss haunts their minds. Since the 90s, many Hong Kong artists, including myself, have […]