Michael Linares’ recent exhibition Found & Lost at Museum of Contemporary Art Puerto Rico highlights the alternately political, prosaic, spiritual, and flamboyant methods by which life is experienced and observed. The exhibition employs Linares’ own fluency in multifarious forms of discourse—from sculpture, to photography and video. Suzie Walshe on Michael Lineares   Michael Linares’ recent […]

Consumerism, in the world of Brian Ulrich, is a tornado of sorts. His photographs, exhibited at the Julie Saul Gallery, depict the space of consumerism after the consumer has consumed and departed. The backroom of a thrift store is full of discarded Nike sneakers, piled one upon the other, inelegant and dead. Heather Clarke   […]

In Genesis, organized by HUMA3 (www.huma3.com) at the Ai Miracoli exhibition space in Venice, Argentinean abstract artist, Mario Zirardini, takes us back to our very beginnings, before written laws, received wisdom, and force of habit, all but shackled our individual creativity and freedom of expression. as.  Ed Rubin   In Genesis, organized by HUMA3 (www.huma3.com) […]

Calligraphy has always been a combination of thing and image, meaning and representation. Whatever the starting point of the text for my drawings might be, I do not expect any specific form or representation to emerge. Wai Pong-Yu Calligraphy has always been a combination of thing and image, meaning and representation. Whatever the starting point […]

Representing the object and its re-use has marked important moments of modern and contemporary art from the historical avant-gardes to our days. By recontextualizing or subverting the object, artists have pushed the conventions of art and emphasized the ambiguity of the representation. Monica Piccioni   Representing the object and its re-use has marked important moments […]

“Digital-Natural Art” is a multifaceted and reciprocal process—making digital 3D images through primitive technology and materials, and making primitive rawhide/wood-art through digital technology and equipment. My hope is that the “digital-natural art” can transcend the traditional and modern uses of art elements, and result in integrating digital and primitive values in one manifestation.    Tan […]

Since the wave of British art released its energy in 1990s, China’s art scene has also demonstrated its outstanding force of imagination and creativity. This was driven by decades of continuous fast development of the economy, coupled with the momentum of the country’s history. Leng Lin   Since the wave of British art released its […]

All these photos are about the familiar Shanghai in my memory. When I was still a child, these types of old factories and buildings were everywhere, alive and full of energy. What I used to be so familiar with has literally disappeared in front of my eyes. Being ruthless is part of human nature, so […]

A new exhibition of documentary photography, Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography, is on view at China Institute Gallery from September 24 through December 13, revealing a glimpse of China never before seen in the U.S.   China Institute Gallery    A new exhibition of documentary photography, Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record […]

“…I’m more interested in searching for something ‘specious’ with independent significance, an illusion that departs from the order but looks like real fact, and an infinite space that exists between either end of things…”—Hong Hao    Beijing Commune   Do you really know things? The recent Bottom series by Hong Hao forces us to think […]