What does one seek from a work of art? Is it the sensuality of paint, the allure of color, the attentiveness to shape and form, the artist’s handling of line, circuitous or straight, wavy or merely linear, the mysterious application of paint, rich in color, vaporous in shadow? Of course, it is all of this […]

Andy Warhol was both a friend and mentor to Jamie Wyeth, the acclaimed realist painter and third generation artist of the Wyeth clan. A decade later, in the 80s, he was also a friend to the street-wise wizard of language and image, Jean-Michel Basquiat. For this exhibition, which was organized by the Brandywine River Museum, […]

The exhibition “Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Architecture of Little Books,” is a show about the magazines used to convey radical ideas on architecture in the 60s and 70s. The show itself is set up in chronological order and displays the vehicles used (magazines) to express the angst, frustration, innovation and hopes for architectural design in the future. […]

Lately I’ve noticed an interesting trend in mainstream cinema. Movies like Pan’s Labyrinth, Children of Men, Letters From Iwo Jima and The Lives of Others all offer a critique of fascism or totalitarianism. Set in either the past or a fictive future, these films illuminate current dilemmas we all face in the wake of 9-11. […]

Today, more than ever before, highly meaningful work is being produced in the realm of sound and visual experimentation, bringing us to a new paradigm, which cannot easily be defined through criticism and that only comes from the marriage of music and art. Unquestionably, there are many forms of art that clearly belong to the […]

Zhou Jun likes to speak lightly of his own abilities, but his arresting images of the new China are the work of a sophisticated artist and a master of the photographic craft. The Nanjing-based photographer came to Beijing in 1995 as an Artist in Residence at Red Gate Gallery. He found a city being transformed […]

The majority of my works are allegorical narrative paintings. After completing my education at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, I wanted to continue my explorations into painting and process, and the inherent narrative quality of painting is what continues to lure me. I found that this quality gave me a way to […]

Anoush Abrar and Aimée Hoving met as photography students at the University of Art in Lausanne, Switzerland. Anoush is from Iran and Aimée is Dutch, and the two began working together as a team in 2003 after having finished art school. Currently, they both live in Switzerland. What brought the two together was an interest […]

Leah Oates: When did you know you where an artist? I read that you began taking photographs fairly young. Did you know you were an artist then, and how has your work changed since that time? Elinor Carucci: I was 15 when I took my father’s camera and started to photograph my mother. I have […]

Drawing on the intrinsic qualities of the medium, my photographic work aims to create an aesthetic of the still that encloses as much of the concreteness of the everyday as it does the enigmatic. Through a staging or re-directing of the real, I deploy photography as a meditative and contemplative act, reflecting on transparency, light, […]