Superheroes are a recurrent theme in the work of Indonesian painter Nyoman Masriadi. These pop cultural icons, enforcers of law and order, instantly communicate a web of moral complexity. Masriadi portrays Batman and Superman in such a manner as to question our perception of the superhero. These idols entered our hearts through the small screen […]

Jason Stopa: I am pretty familiar with your work, but not so much with your process. Can you tell me about how you work and how long you have been working this way? Do you create a painting all in one sitting? Kit White: Generally, I like to work wet on wet in oil. Part […]

Kim Dorland’s “For Lori” is a collection of paintings and works on paper, each of which was inspired by his muse, and wife, Lori Seymour. Dorland began using his wife as a subject in his work in 2007; since then he has made, and sold, countless Lori-inspired paintings. The series marked a significant departure from […]

Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) is an American photographer, video, and performance artist based in New York City. She has been exhibiting her work since 2002, and in 2005 art critic Jerry Saltz called her a “standout” at the “Greater New York” show at MoMA P.S.1. In addition to photography and video, Nakadate is also known […]

Thursday June 16th, AIR Art Gallery presented a private viewing of the exhibition “Hyperbodies” by Carole Feuerman, the celebrated New York artist who returned to Florence, leading us to the discovery of a new reality. As the viewer crosses the gallery threshold, she is immediately hit by a sudden and unconscious blindness, in which everything […]

At his first solo show in New York at Freight and Volume, Kent Dorn’s paintings sit somewhere between horror and beauty. His canvases are a personal approximation of the sublime, painting portraits of drifters and outsiders interpreted as lepers or apparitions. These displaced souls are sometimes undressing, doing mysterious things in a somber landscape littered […]

Having weathered what appears to be the deep end of the economic downturn, Chelsea is trying its best to dig its fingernails to into that crusty upper-layer NY Art scene status. It just so happens that hot young artists, along with those with more refined sensibilities still prefer to be shown in their large, raw, […]

Hundreds of thousands of visitors have accepted the late designer’s invitation, descending on the Metropolitan Museum in flocks to see “Savage Beauty,” a multi-media exhibition of McQueen’s couture curated by Andrew Bolton of the Museum’s Costume Institute. With the exhibit half over and visitors still patiently waiting hours upon hours for entry, the Museum announced […]

Yang Jiechang’s artistic path is both exemplary of the globalization of issues in contemporary culture and part of the long-term heritage of the extraterritoriality of art and the destiny of artists. Born in a region of southern China strongly marked by poverty and a nomadic lifestyle, he opted very early for art as a personal […]

I was born in 1980 in Riga, Latvia – a small country of just 2 or so million inhabitants, in the North of Europe – which was at that time under Soviet occupation. Both of my parents were computing device engineers, trained to operate strange ancient computers in a size of a room, in Soviet […]