“McElheny’s oeuvre combines the legacy of conceptual art and a keen interest in history with an extremely high proficiency in glass blowing, a degree of craftsmanship almost completely outmoded in today’s art world,” said Molesworth. “Over the past two decades, the problem of infinity has driven McElheny’s efforts to represent the unrepresentable, as the infinite […]

Alternatively, New Dan Bal Ryeong, Mang Geum Gang is presented on a single monitor. The origin of this work is from Jeun Sun, a Chosun Dynasty landscape artist. There are two mountains; one is the famous Geum Gang San (Diamond Mountain), which is presented on the left side of the work and Dan Bal Ryeong […]

Spray-painted and found printed papers cut into diamonds and triangles make up the seemingly random compositions of the Flotilla series. As the name suggests, the arrangements of shapes and colors looks like a flotilla of ships on the sea as seen from above. A flotilla is usually composed of a homogeneous group of the same […]

Lauren Luloff’s solo exhibition of large-scale paintings will occupy the ground floor of the Halsey McKay Gallery. Richly layered, complex activity propels the construction of these works as the artist layers bleach-stained bed sheets, muslin, transparent fabric and varying viscosities of oil paint. Luloff’s paintings are constructed, layered and torn, coalescing into moody evocations of […]

VOLTA is a platform for presenting the vision of contemporary art galleries of global repute whose artists represent new and relevant positions for curators and collectors alike. Conceived to bridge a gap between Basel’s pre-existing fairs, VOLTA showcases galleries–whether young or mature–that choose as their mandate to work with the most exciting emerging artists. The […]

Black is immanent to itself; it is the color of undivided nothingness that has yet to be penetrated by light. Upon entering Galerie Richard, black was my instant impression of Joseph Nechvatal’s “nOise anusmOs,” for most of his new paintings are unified by a black background. Against the black backdrop are intricate and complex webs […]

Made in L.A. 2012, the first in an ongoing series of biennial exhibitions focused on new work created by artists in the Los Angeles region, opens June 2 at the Hammer Museum, LA><ART in Culver City, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park in Los Feliz. Building upon the tradition of Hammer […]

In the history of New York City culture, there have been fertile locations, sometimes a single building or a pair of buildings, other times a single street, in which several major people happened to reside at a certain time. 51 W. 10th Street was such a building in the late 19th century; so were the […]

Perhaps most encouraging about Bucharest is the attitude towards its cultural icons.  Few other countries so boldly champion their contemporary artists.  One can never underestimate the necessity for humanism in an age so overly consumed with money in relation to art.  Leaving NYC for a moment put the arts in perspective, albeit only briefly.  That […]

Anne Percoco: The title comes from the Maintenance Art Manifesto by Mierle Laderman-Ukeles. She wrote that manifesto when she was pregnant or just after she had had her baby and she realized that she was spending her time taking care of this baby and of their house. She didn’t have time to make art, so […]