And what a girl this is: The subtle yet powerful artworks of Sarah Maple recently displayed at her London solo show at Aubin Gallery, London, picks up the ever prevailing question on what it is to be a woman in today’s world. The British artist’s show offers a nuanced, confrontational, intelligent, as well as […]

In an attempt to chart the criterion for the canon of this still emergent perceptual manifestation in the visual arts, let’s look to forerunners such as Jackson Pollock and David Reed.  Both of whom have made works where the movement of film and/or cinema enters the movement of the paint—or in the case of Frank Stella sculptures […]

Baras’ small, quirky paintings are varied in application—overworked in parts, encrusted or otherwise incised.  Untitled 8081 looks like caked cement dipped in a puddle of gasoline.  It’s surface is violently scratched and scraped down like a palette, yet unable to get all those old globs fully off.  After grating away to the bottom layer, the […]

America is, and has been for decades, drowning in a massive pile of trash. We produce trash many times a day. Eventually, it accumulates and we end up not knowing where to put all of it, but in a trashcan. And why is this? Because of excessive consumerism and a state of mind we have […]

You cannot visit Berlin without visiting a museum. Some might think this is because of the fabulous collections and great choice of exhibitions constantly offered in the German capital. But, it is also because you don’t necessarily pay for a ticket to enter a museum. You can get it all for free! Why is that? […]

If this piece begs the visitor to cross the border of “inside” and “outside” spatial concepts, Roberto’s first project in the U.S. titled A Voice In The Desert (2012), expands space even further; marking the desert of Texas with an installation of 5 square steel frames and as many speakers. The optical and sonic grid […]

Of course, we know that Rose Selavy did not really exist. Rather, she was an early attempt by the artist to create a female alter ego for himself through the use of a pseudonym. The fictitious name and copyright were carefully printed in Helvetica across a small wooden base that supported a modest French window […]

In a sense, then, Matisse and Picasso, at that time mostly unknown, along with Raoul du Gardier and Henri Manguin–now more obscure than ever–were a substitute, as the Steins must themselves have been to ambitious artists in search of ready money. It was a good match, nevertheless: the Steins, subject to a Jamesian revelation of […]

Hungarian visual arts have hardly been a roaring international success over the last twenty years, especially when we consider the truly remarkable theater, music, and cinema produced here. Still, Hungarian visual artists such as the Little Warsaw group, Róza El-Hassan, and Hajnal Németh participated in major European and international exhibitions; some artists attained a modicum […]

John Zinsser: Yes, “studio time.” Here in Greenpoint, the sky is always grey, depressive—it’s “nowhere time.” There is always this urgency to do something. But it’s so impossible to do anything. So I try to find these “devices” to keep moving. A lot of the little sketches are done as just sort of “warm-ups.” To […]