It’s pretty rare to have the opportunity to see the work of a living legend. There are very few artists who ever achieve this status, standing head and shoulders above the rest of us. If the measure of influence is equated to height, Ellworth Kelly is way up there. Turning 90 this year, this art […]

After much duress and rhetoric, Fountain by Duchamp as lowly as it once appeared, has been chastened by Meister Eckhart, who proclaimed: “And behold! All in One.”  Not merely a gaff of raw Dadaist vulgarity, but a heightened amplification usurping the serene bypass taken by artists on the aftermath of Duchamp’s storm of acrimony. R. […]

Rex Bruce is the founder and director of the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He took some time earlier this year to share some insight with NY Arts about the vitality of the L.A. art scene. I was introduced to computer technology from an early age: my father was a programmer in the late […]

I first really got to know Barnaby Ruhe as the actor who portrayed Jackson Pollock, while I did a much more minor turn as Clement Greenberg, in Bill Rabinovitch’s fantastic fiasco “Pollock Squared.” Ruhe is foremost a painter, while also practicing moving energy around as a healer, a shaman, and a boomerang thrower, he transfers […]

“It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests-and so perfectly within their rights!” – Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Beyan Ramsey takes a […]

By Mary Hrbacek Keith Haring’s large-scale symbolic scrawled diptychs, on view at Mana Contemporary, spur memories of an era when gangs of boys performed spontaneous break-dances in Soho subway stations.  They recall a time when free spirits ruled, with street art that continues to spark the cosmic desire in the human soul to soar unfettered, […]

By Matthew Hassell The weight of art history bears down on few artists more inflexibly than in the case of the draftsman. One measure used to alleviate this constant pressure lies in the attempted dissolution of standard art historical categories. Is it a drawing? Is it a painting? Does it belong to the realm of […]

  Well, a salon that teleports you to the 1900’s in an entirely unique experience is different for sure. With eight Czech and Slovak artists partnering up eight foreign artists, the gallery becomes a bustling platform of ideas and connections. The exhibition emulates the concept of a Parisian art salon by bring artists together and […]

  MINUS SPACE is opening a major solo show tonight, “Linda Francis: We Can Build You.” For Francis’ second solo show at the gallery she will be featuring new large-scale oil paintings on wood panel. Visitors will be excited to see these challenging works which formally tackle wide-ranging concepts including astronomy, physics, mathematics, and philosophy.  […]

  The mega-floods of 2012 were extremely well-documented, of course, but as far as I’m aware, Miti Ruangkritya is the only photographer whose work reflects Thai society’s psychic experience of the floods in a really interesting way. Instead of the usual record of spectacular damage or the ‘upbeat’ spin of good citizens helping each other […]