Art Basel Miami 2016
by C.C. You went to the world’s most important air fair, the Art Basel Miami, what did you see? The answer to that question has always been the same: everything. There is always too much to see, too much to learn, too much to think about, too many people to meet. The experience is that of saturation, and yet every [...]
Old and New Good Art Stands Out at Miami Basel
by C.C When I told my friends I was going to see Miami Basel 2015, I was told that I would be seeing a lot of Cuban art since the US and Cuba recently opened their diplomatic relations. I also expected to see Latin American art since it was a long known fact that over the years, the event had [...]
Dance the Orange in NY
by B. Palacios It is not unusual to find a painter who can master the use of colors to express their unique perception of reality. But, to convey the reality of happiness is a different matter. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, we have found a painting exhibition doing just that. The Philadelphia born artist Stanley Whitney presents [...]
Facing History
The woman on the screen is in a completely empty auditorium. She is singing and her voice is shrill and long, like a wounded animal. In her voice there is also a yearning, a pleading, as if she were praying. At the same time an immense tenderness is felt, as if her song were a declaration of love. In front [...]
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 with texture, images that set the imagination free, distortions of space and time, shades that change when viewed from different angles. Zheng’s current solo exhibition at the Ink Studio in [...]
Reflection Alone
"Reflection alone can give us the idea of what perception is" We saw these words in pale white neon lights above the stairs leading to the basement gallery at New York's Sean Kelly art gallery. We paused and wondered who wrote these words, and who was the artist who noticed them and used them to make the installation. The sentence [...]