So far 2012 has seen some major changes: abstraction has made a significant comeback and we gave double takes to Claes Oldenburg and Lucio Fontana. And after looking at some of the major museum exhibits in NYC; spectacle is still on the rise. Is the apocalypse coming?We’re not sure. But our Top Ten Show list […]

Join Fountain on Friday, December 7th for its Opening Night Reception, with easy beats by JPatt of The Knocks.  Brooklyn music sensation Tiki Disco will groove up Saturday Night’s Miami New Times Event.   Paper Magazine buzzes, “Fountain is always a blast with lots of parties and hip art, plus this year they’re hosting a spin-off […]

Jordana Zeldin Talks with Ryan Turley About the Highs and Lows of Hi/Lo Jason Stopa: I’ll start you two off. Ryan, I’ve known you since grad school and your work has changed a lot. How did you conceive of this project? And Jordana, your space is becoming known for a lot of emerging artists, particularly […]

Waiting in line to view Tatzu Nishi’s installation on a rainy Fall day, the surrounding fountains provide a constant white noise of crashing water. Actually rather isolating, the sonic disruption makes it hard to hear the others milling about expectantly in the entrance line. The first thing one notices is the intricacy of the elaborate […]

A UCLA freshman quarterback starts at a sold-out game at the Coliseum against USC in 1999. He gets profiled in Sports Illustrated. After transferring to the University of Chattanooga Tennessee in 2003, he is selected by the Cincinnati Bengals as a free agent player. But the first week of training camp, he tears his shoulder […]

Kakyong Lee recent inclusion in “Drawings and Prints, Selections from the Permanent Collection”—an exhibit showcasing drawings, etchings, and prints from the mid 16th through today—at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was a significant and impressive demonstration of her significant contribution to the contemporary art world. Her animations, installation, and prints on paper were in the […]

Rick Briggs: I like that term “visual wit”, and I think some of those earlier paintings had some of that too. Paintings like One Liner, Red Studio, and Through the Cracks, for example, had this quality, with the later two expressing the idea of an art career gone awry. But I agree the humor was […]

Carolanna Parlato: My new body of work, Behind the Sun, is meant to embody the chaotic and transitory nature of our world. Natural phenomena are all around us: in afternoon shadows, or the glow of the morning sky, shifting clouds, and the sway of branches that are visible from my rear window. When I paint […]

Galleries can be imposing places. The vast white cube designed to imbue work with importance often misses the mark in engulfing work within a sterile blank space. Mark Dagley’s current show at Minus Space makes me think that he is wary of this. By no means a lightweight, Dagley has put together a show that […]

Galleries can be imposing places. The vast white cube designed to imbue work with importance often misses the mark in engulfing work within a sterile blank space. Mark Dagley’s current show at Minus Space makes me think that he is wary of this. By no means a lightweight, Dagley has put together a show that […]