Wearing a pair of baggy jeans, a khaki shirt, and a military green cap, Koba dropped the lines of his song “Rise Up Move” at the Five Points (formerly Teabag,) an independent arts organization in China Town, New York City: “Rise up like global warming / Like a new morning / This is our warning, […]

The Georgian splendor of Asia House in London’s West End recently played host to the work of the 40 year old Burmese artist, Htein Lin. Lin was an established comic, performance artist, and contemporary artist before his arrest in 1998 by the Orwellian sounding S.L.O.R.C. or State Law and Order Restoration Council, and given a […]

Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh: Last fall you had your first solo show The Girls Show Dostoyevsky the New Darkness at Marvelli Gallery in New York City. How did that feel? How did the audience receive it? Margaux Williamson: It felt ok. Growing up, I saw art mainly in art books, or Laurie Anderson at the hippy […]

The exhibition False, organized by Platform China, talks about the spread of falseness as an active element in our life. In contemporary China, as the pace of the society development is increasing, people feel the need to use culture-related things to guard themselves against the tide of this development, which breeds a pseudo-culture. As people […]

The human condition has been the main source of motivation in my art. I draw from the human circumstances that flourish between reality and perception. Born and raised in Korean myth culture and adopting Buddhist philosophy, I assume that the world we are living in is not real. It is merely an illusion that we […]

I’m interested in strong contrasts–generally everywhere–in particular, in art. I really like to mix everything myself…in my mind, in my art. I’ve been interested in alchemy, occultism, and esotericism since I was young. I really like using sexual imagery, especially freakish dark sexual imagery in my artworks, because I like to play with all I […]

Not too many people remembered The Offs, the peripheral San Francisco cult punkers who made a few albums in the early 80s, until two of the band’s members died of heroin overdoses. If it were not for the fact that the group hung out with Jean Michel Basquiat–who desperately wanted to join the band in […]

Through drawing and film Erica Eyres invites the viewer into an uneasy world of disenchanted youth and beyond. Eyres is fascinated by the absurd and how we, as humans, react when faced with situations which generate conflicting emotions. Eyres creates characters from her shrewd observations of both daily life and the manufactured world of the […]

Morgan O’Hara has been developing her series of drawings, known as Live Transmissions, since 1982 and at BAM since the mid 1990s. These drawings, which the artist calls “time-based performances,” are created by tracking and recording the movements of her various subjects using pencil and paper. Over the years, O’Hara created some of the more […]

I believe in dirty hands. Before I really took up painting, I experimented with other media like radio, sound, and photography. Yet I never felt at home working with these media as they lack the tactile quality of painting and drawing. Working with a camera, a tape recorder, or a computer never gave me a […]