Henri Michaux (1899-1984) enjoys the best kind of posterity. On a small street in Paris – all of one block long – crowded with handsome galleries showing the fearsome, minutely crafted totems of Africa and Oceania, his paintings draw a steady stream of people who look at them not because they want to buy an […]

The starting point of art is the resistance of death and time. Artists pursue possibilities to overcome and transcend the limitation of time in their works. Hyong Nam Ahn’s installation, “Fantastic Lonely- Heart,” implies the search for the limitation of time. This work is a simply composed sculpture and a kind of site-specific installation using […]

  Darkness is never absolute; there is always a beam of light that illuminates the depths. Stefanie Gutheil fills her murky vision with distorted imaginative images of creatures culled from her unconscious that in time constitute the genesis of fresh ideas, turbulent progenitors of creative evolution. The artist establishes baroque tableaux of dream-like hybrids that […]

  Construction can elicit a diverse array of reactions. For some, it’s the beginning of an exciting business venture. For others, it’s the dystopian spawn of our commercialism-crazed society. For most, it’s just head-pounding racket. But for Nicola Lopez, it’s a vibrant and stimulating muse. “It’s absolutely beautiful and magical, yet totally overwhelming and completely […]

Artist self-portraits have historically fascinated the public eye as they have become artists’ most personal and intimate expressions, but this trend has taken a particularly big turn in the past two decades among contemporary artists. As a young art student in the mid 1980s, I remember developing an obsession with the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo […]

Hans Haacke is a world-renowned artist whose work explores, both natural (such as geological and meteorological) and social (including governmental and corporate) processes. Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1936, Haacke received his degree in 1960 from the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany. He then worked in Paris at the print studio of Stanley William Hayter, […]

Valentina Ciarallo: Who is Dephect? Ian Tweedy: Dephect is an alter ego of mine. I have had others but Dephect was most widely used and also known to the public. Dephect was a strategy, a way to penetrate different playing fields at one time, an artist, a guide, an activist, and a vandal. “When I […]

The work of Massachusetts based artist, Jonathan Prince—currently on view until November 18 at the Sculpture Garden in the atrium of the old IBM building in New York City, under the title “Torn Steel”—like the artist himself who resembles Julian Schnabel, is big, bold, and undeniably ambitious. But underneath the swagger of the man and […]

Jennie C. Jones’ new show at the Kitchen places the viewer within the divide between the physical permanence of material and the ethereality of the sonic. The gallery space serves as a venue to situate a series of paintings in direct relation to a darkly resonant sonic backdrop. Jones has used a process she has […]

Like a long-forgotten punk band from the 1970s—perhaps the art world’s equivalent to the New York Dolls—Asco makes a vibrant return to public consciousness with an elegant, formal retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As is often the case when talent has been long unrecognized, the exhibition is a bittersweet and somewhat […]