Among the best of the works in Stephen Shore’s show at the International Center of Photography is a photo of a McDonald’s hamburger, Perrine, Florida, November 11, 1977. It’s a portal through time that asserts, in one swift psychic jolt, how culture changes and how specific the look of any particular moment is. Look closely […]

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini creates a world captured in sculpture, video, photographs and drawings. Her incredibly realistic-looking silicone sculptures, in particular, have made her one of the most distinctive artists working today. In these works, strange creatures snarl, stare and even play or sleep peacefully with human children. The viewer, brought into their world, may […]

When I was 12 years old, I discovered photography at a workshop in school. My interest in this medium was also encouraged by the discovery of photographic material I found in my attic—material which belonged to my grandfather who died in Africa. My father, without any knowledge in this field, helped me to progress in […]

When looking at painting from Germany, it is wise not only to look through the Leipzig lens, but also to recognize the rich artistic geography of Germany as a whole. Germany has a strong, polycentric network of small arts academies with the most important artists teaching new talent. Berlin has recently been coming up as […]

We are what is coming next. Perhaps it is the corner of the mouth that I find attractive, or a tattoo. Perhaps it's the way that one wiggles their nose when they're talking, or their unaffected air when they sail through a crowd. My attention is aroused by a detail. I start watching someone, picturing […]

I was born in 1973 in Örnsköldsvik, a town located in the northern region of Sweden. Because of my disengagement with school, I was educated as a welder, but began studying photography in 1999 when I attended a Swedish university in Gamleby, a school where I was matriculated for three years. Currently, I live and […]

Somehow I can just picture Marie-Josie Vielot trolling an endlessly vast shoreline in search of her favorite medium. In the context of her prolific career, the artist apparently never tires in her search for the perfect seashell to complete her intricate creations. While most artists take up as their medium such immediately available, store-bought media […]

In June of 2005, upon receiving a curatorial prize at the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, I took advantage of my 15 minutes of fame in Slovenian lands in order to propose a show of Cuban art to Aleksander Bassin, director of the Mestna Galerija, or the City Museum. He accepted my proposal, and we […]

In their photographic work, designers Bitten Stetter and Gulliver Theis effortlessly reflect the fact that our society is replete with fashion by presenting the viewer with a fast-paced world based around the idea of its transience. Playing with concupiscence and sensuality in their photographic artwork, flesh acts as a metaphor that turns the inside out […]

Sanjie is a composite artwork created with three methods—oil painting, photograph and video. The subject is a young Chinese girl wearing a red scarf (the symbol of a member of Young Pioneer Group) and playing the roles of the 13 figures of da Vinci’s Last Supper. It took me nearly a year to complete the […]