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 been taken over by swirls of energy in layers of glistening aluminum and fiberglass, a symphony of seven apparently random installations that invite the public [...]
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 apart in age and experience, but New York’s Leigh Morse Fine Arts gallery has seized an extraordinary opportunity and brought them together for a show, [...]
From the Series of Essays Ritual Practices by Elaine Smollin The picture plane by way of its reinterpretation had opened and closed by the time we, the generation of Godzilla, emerged out of art school. We arrived as young painters into a world where we might behave like forces [...]
By E. Leigh I spent four days visiting Art Basel Hong Kong in an area that occupied almost 35,000 square meter (115,000 square feet) of the Convention Center by the waterfront. It was impossible, of course, to see all the exhibitions from 245 participating galleries from 39 countries and territories and go to over [...]
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 TomaselliHead2013Mixed media and resin on wood panel90 x 66 in. (228.6 x 167.6 cm) At the James Cohan gallery, the wizard of image combining [...]
by Light-man In New York City, there is one day a week that you do not have to pay to go to the museum. On that day, the Museum of Modern Art gets so crowded that you feel that you have made a mistake and walked into the Grand Central Station. I went to see [...]
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, rotating heads of Mussolini for a formal embodiment of psychic imprinting of modernization- the kind we now take for granted as imprinted on our collective [...]
Remember when we were kids, we had so much fun drawing, painting, playing with everything that we got hold of? We did not care if the art we were making was fuzzy, stupid, or good. We just wanted to have fun. But having fun like that as adults, professional artists, and gallery organizers seemed unlikely. [...]
Olafur Eliasson, Artist, Berlin/Copenhagen in conversation with Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York Filmed on site at Art Basel in Miami Beach, Thursday, December 5, 2013
by AP Surprising is the recently born Cartagena de Indias International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Colombia, that opened within the framework of one the most beautiful cities in the world. Under the direction of the well-known curator Berta Sichel, and a team of curators such as the American Barbara S. Krulik, the Nigerian Bisi [...]
