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A quiet break into intimacy
Too often we find ourselves surrounded by art with a magnificent political, ecological, anthropological, historical or many other purposes ending in “cal”. Art in contemporary times tends to voice a [...]
Bosch at El Prado
Walking into “Bosch: The 5th Centenary Exhibition” at Museo del Prado in Spain is to step into a world of its own. Colorful, vivacious, majestic, Bosch takes you into a [...]
Vlasta Remembered
Only rarely have I experience a calming melancholy when I walk into an art exhibition. The space at Prague City Gallery was kept in semi-darkness, islands of lights reflected on [...]
Multitudinous Shades of Pale
A unique exhibition marking 60 years of continuous exploration of achromatic colors by Robert Ryman, one of America’s leading pioneers of Minimalist painting, is currently on view at the DIA [...]
Local Stories/Global Practices
Colombia has earned a privileged position in the global art scene during the last few years due to two important international art events - the annual ARBO international trade fair [...]
Botero in China
Fernando Botero's fat ladies may be familiar to people around the world but they are certainly a novelty in China. For years, the famed Colombian artist has tried to show [...]
Notes around the world
Forces of Black and White Ink
Four Cuts into the Space A world mostly in black and white and many shades of grey. But more than that, Chinese artist Zheng Chongbin’s works are dense [...]
Faces Bringing Back Dignity of Chinese Farmers
An image can tell stories that words cannot. It can say a lot about a nation's past and present, and it can dwell in dark places of our heart and [...]
Ai Weiwei, Redefining Tradition in Homeland China
Spouts Installation The world famous Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, who is not allowed to travel outside of China since 2010, opened a solo exhibition for the first time [...]
An Era of Anxiety at the 2015 Venice Biennale
by A.P. With the theme of “All the world’s futures”, the Nigerian Okwui Enwezor, the first African guest curator in the Venice Biennale’s 120 years of history, has got together [...]
Voices For My Father
Ceiling high works that can measure as long as seven meters. All-over paint and collages of precious metals, bumper stickers, rubber tires, cracked eggs, a hundred dollar bills in Ziploc [...]
A Day in an Artist Village in China
Chinese artists have been pushed from one village to another, evicted from here to there. They disperse and come together again and again. The story of Yuan [...]
On the Edge
If You’re Going to San Francisco…
If you're going to San Francisco on a spring day,make sure to take the historic trolley and get off at The Castro district. There are numerous stylish shops, Eco-friendly [...]
Art in a Place of Wisdom and Knowledge
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2014 Contemporary art often crosses the line of pure art expression or craft. It contributes to building a culture, thus encompassing many different [...]
A twister of energy and art in Park Avenue
Twister (Park Avenue Paper Chase), Aluminum, 12′ high × 12′ diameter, 2014. 66th Street on Park Avenue. For four months, midtown Park Avenue in New York has [...]
MY Sheep Station
By C.C When you love something, you want to possess it. It is always great to get into heavy philosophical debates with Zach, but when the issue came to [...]
Just a Band of Friends
By C. C. Loch Hame is a band that I started with my friends, but now it’s just me. The American artist Tyler Loftis began his recent performance at [...]
Farewell to Arms
Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes wants to create “a global consciousness about arms trafficking” with his project to make musical instruments out of guns seized by the army and police in [...]
What’s going on?
Cool People in The New Republic
Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II (Michael Jackson), 2009Oil on canvas The latest exhibition of the American artist Kenhinde Wiley at the Brooklyn Museum in New York has [...]
Eric Holzman: Disclosure
From the Series of Essays Ritual Practices by Elaine Smollin The vision of deities and their familiars, among animals, tends to exclude humans from those with the ability to [...]
In Black Ink Qian Shaowu Nudes Shine
The female body is sometimes best depicted by curvy lines in black ink on white paper, as Qian Shaowu seems to tell us. Well known for his massive heroic sculptures [...]
A Timeless Conversation on Colors
By C.C They are both painters, both in love with colors. They both have deep feelings for nature that triggers out an artist’s whims and wonder. They are 50 years [...]
Magic and reality found in translation
The art world of Chelsea in New York has greeted this spring with exhibitions of a great variety of art work in terms of mediums, concept and intention. Fred [...]
Sorrows at the Guggenheim, 1909-1944
An essay by Elaine Smollin Renato Bertelli,Continuous Profile of Musillini, 1933 Last night, I quickly scanned the spiraling galleries for works that would outpace Renato Bertelli’s, 1933, [...]
Past Articles
Miami Basel – Time to Play
Dale ChihulyGlass Sculptures at Fairchild Tropical Botanic GardenPhoto by Gustavo Taborda by G. & G. Taborda Miami’s largest art event of Art Basel this year is infused [...]
Being There: Lewis and Li
From the Series of Essays Ritual Practices by Elaine Smollin It’s common to see the ideals we project through visual means fall away from their central aim, which is, [...]
Spectral Painting: Julian Schnabel 1989-1990
From the Series of Essays Ritual Practices by Elaine Smollin The picture plane by way of its reinterpretation had opened and closed by the [...]
Fun, Art, and a Little Light at the Miami Basel
Marc Quinn, Eye of History, a series of 8 paintings, oil on canvas by G & G Taborda Every year Miami Basel transforms Miami, a city known to [...]
John Ashbery’s Home in an Art Gallery
The whole gallery feels like the metaphor of a home of someone who truly loves art and wishes to share his experience with the rest of the world. We’ve often [...]
A Day’s Art with Live Nude Model
Who needs models anymore? At a time when working with models no longer seems to be relevant, a group of contemporary artists has joined a New York Lower East Side [...]