Shanghai Art Fair 2011 (15th), as Asia’s celebrated art exchange with long history and high internationalization degree, will be grandly held from September14-18, 2011 at ShanghaiMART. Continuing the scale as before, presenting domestic and overseas collectors a gorgeous art event in Shanghai as well. “It is believed that Shanghai Art Fair will continue leading […]

  In “The Labyrinth,” George Bataille compares conventional architecture with the labyrinth in order to critique the repression inherent to social order. Conventional architecture imposes order upon chaos; the labyrinth is where all oppositions collide into chaos. The encounters of different beings in the labyrinth recur, making them more complex and beautiful. My work creates […]

What about secrets in the age of Wikileaks? Don’t absolute transparency and information explosion offer the best possibility for camouflage? Secrets are so obvious today that we are no longer aware of them. Man has always been fascinated with secret societies and their clandestine rites, their covert knowledge, and exclusive circle of members. The character […]

“It’s shit!” proudly declared German artist Stefanie Gutheil to her gallerist Mike Weiss upon his recent visit to her Berlin studio. Weiss, who was meeting with the artist to view the progress on the new works to be featured in her second solo exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery, stepped into Gutheil’s studio-turned-alternate-universe now populated by […]

Under the current circumstances, the artist could not give us his own statement. In his stead, Dr. John Tancock of Chambers Fine Art in interview with Jason Stopa. Chambers Fine Art represents Ai Weiwei in Beijing and New York. Jason Stopa: Ai Weiwei has undergone several trials in the past seven months. From the demolition […]

In our Fall 2011 issue, NY Arts Magazine will feature Voices from artists of Middle Eastern origin. The status of the arts in the Middle East fluctuates between resistance and identity in individual expression. At the same time, there is a growing movement to ignite the arts at the grass roots level. To date, many […]

Film Festival season in New York begins shortly after the Academy Awards with the annual New Directors New Films series presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Not a true festival, NDNF has evolved from a simple harbinger of spring to a useful early warning physical. It takes the pulse of world cinema to […]

In the early evening of August 4, 2010, police were dispatched to Woodrow Wilson Drive in the Hollywood Hills. As a local TV station reported the following day, a driver had crashed his taxi into a house following a disagreement with a pair of Italian honeymooners over the fare, leading to his arrest. In the […]

This exhibition brings together the photographs of four exceptional artists, each working with the representation of the human form. The fabrication of individual male bodies into multi-limbed hybrids, makes Antony Crossfield’s exploration of the male form at once unsettling, yet weirdly beautiful. Phillip Toledano’s highly-crafted images combine up-close physical observations that are imposing, detailed and […]

Lisa Williams: I remember first encountering your work about five years ago. Since then, it has undergone a gradual paring down of color and shape, becoming more fluid and self-assured. Can you talk about some of the changes in your work? Amy Feldman: In many ways my paintings are about overcoming the anxiety of their […]