In the contemporary art world, one of the most challenging undertakings is to curate a group show. Featuring the recent works of six artists of diverse backgrounds, the current exhibition at Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden asks bold questions. Is the centuries-old quarrel between painting and sculpture still relevant and how can an artist complicate […]

Like sugar induced hyper-active children, David and I went to the only place where grownups ring doorbells to see art: The Upper East Side. Were we tricked? Yes. Were we treated, yeah, that too. Our first stop was Michael Werner Gallery where their new and stunning second floor space houses a Peter Saul exhibition. This […]

The new Meridian exhibition at the recently launched Tryon St Gallery, (just a stone’s throw from London’s Saatchi gallery), explores the universal human fascination with finding our place in the world and recording it through maps and mapping. Attesting a human need to determine and record one’s position in the world, maps—and intangible concepts such as meridians—are instrumental in […]

Mechelen is a small city in Belgium, poised exactly half way between Brussels and Antwerp. Though it has a higher percentage of listed buildings than the better-known tourist magnet Bruges, for a long time, the city has been a hidden gem. Over the last couple of years, however, Mechelen has managed to put itself on […]

As a repository of Dadaist ideas, the brilliant show at Blain/Di Donna, Dada and Surrealist Objects, represents what constitutes artistic re-interpretation. It brings back into focus the bankruptcy of contemporary artistic initiatives as nothing more than  shameless re-invention.  The “objects” in this elegantly-mounted show represent imaginative artifacts created between 1920 and 1969 (save for the […]

Irena Jurek: Ok, so tell me which hotties you’re keeping an eye on this season. Casey Jane Ellison: I keep to myself. IJ: Your newest series, “What the F*shion,” parodies the fashion show genre, and deconstructs identity, status, and misogyny. Can you talk about what motivations led you to satirize fashion specifically? CJE: I wanted […]

Leah Oates: What is your family background.  Paul Bridgewater: My family is ‘Merican, ‘Merican, ‘Merican!…Here a long time! (Southern accent) English, French, Black, Italian, German, Mexican and probably a lot of other things…muts! LO: Did you always know you would be a gallerist? PB: Me and my friends were artists. They were clueless, so I […]

Mariko Mori’s much-anticipated solo exhibition titled Rebirth at the Japan Society is a startling departure from the energy and defiance of her early photographic work. Her transformation from a daring thinker whose cyborgian bad girls portrayed Japanese angst to a meditative Zen like artist is not particularly enthralling. Long inspired by Buddhist spirituality, Mori’s urge […]

Politics of Light, Jan Tichy’s first solo exhibition in NYC, is a moody paean to light and shadow, to the ebbs and flows of what light reveals and what darkness hides. Tichy’s installations are a fluid integration of diverse media incorporating animation, film, photography, and sculpture, all invested with the presence of mechanical light—be it […]

Deborah Turbeville, a fashion photographer, always claimed that she wanted to blur the boundaries between fashion and art. Her early avant-garde works back in the 1970s were strikingly different – melancholic, unsettling and technically imperfect: grainy, overexposed, and cropped in unusual ways. They changed fashion photography from clean and predictable into dark and strange. I […]