Throughout my life, I have consistently come to understand the world by creating art. In creating I experienced joy. I paint from my imagination and from observation. When I started painting in 1974, my dreams and imagination led me to explore my cultural history as a child of holocaust survivors. I am also interested in […]

I am drawn to the randomness of nature that masquerades as abstraction. As opposed to my paintings, where I must do the abstracting myself, in photography I am nature’s curator. I do not disturb or rearrange what I photograph. I photograph still life in its truest form— life, still and undisturbed. The series “Landscapes Inches […]

Between Heaven and Earth, is a new exhibition of work from 23 contemporary artists from Central Asia. It has been conceived by Berlin-based curator, David Elliott for Calvert 22, a not-for-profit foundation specializing in contemporary art from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and located in Shoreditch, London, UK. In an exclusive edited extract from his […]

One of the many reasons we can (proudly, loudly) call our city the greatest in the world are our public libraries. The idea of a library being completely open to the public, and most importantly free, was revolutionary at the inception of the New York Public Library in 1895, when almost all libraries in the […]

Interviewer: Why do you think you are an artist? Simon: Ignoring the implication of that question. I think I am an artist because I am full of existential angst seeking to be expressed through thought‐filled imagery. I am secretly yearning for critical approval. My official artist’s statement says I am confused by the boundaries between […]

 For 39 years Dalia Carella has studied, performed and taught traditional dance forms of various cultures. Her journey as a choreographer of world dance has spanned from ancient traditions to the contemporary and the avant-garde. In her early career, she was a risk taker in the near eastern dance scene—bringing the mystical vision into a […]

  The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, created in 1961, is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. MM Serra and Anne Hanavan—curators in charge from The Film-Maker’s Coop—together with Javier Moreno and Marta Arenal from the Angel Orensanz Foundation, have put together an audacious, noteworthy film program with titles culled from […]

  “Art is the one place for us to go, for all this stuff to be shored up. The stuff of 9/11 is too big to carry in silence. It has to be summoned up and detoxified. To have the conversation after ten years, to reflect in new ways, might alleviate some of the anxiety […]

The Parrish Art Museum is a great excuse to trek out to the beach, especially on a non-beach day. Nestled in Southhampton, it is soon to inhabit a nearby cornfield where it will have the impact as a kind of huge incubator of contemporary art. Its design mirrors turn of the century dairy farms, but […]

  The word “No” does not exist in the majority of the over 200 Australian Aboriginal languages. Where it does exist, this powerful word is reserved for the elders and is used with great care and ceremony. As these languages reach the brink of extinction, indigenous Australian artists are using contemporary art to assert their […]