How much bigger and better is Art Basel Hong Kong?
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, [...]
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 TomaselliHead2013Mixed media and resin on [...]
Metamorphoses on a rainy day
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 [...]
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, rotating heads of Mussolini for [...]
Going ape (naked) for one day!
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. [...]
Olafur Eliasson inerview on Little Sun
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, [...]
Surprising
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 Refusal of Time
If you do not know that this is an art installation, you might think that this is about procrastination. But it is more. The Refusal of Time is an invitation to meditate about the issue [...]
Blood, Heart, Hope
By Lightman I often find art works with a social-political subtext to be suspicious. Sometimes the message carries such urgency that it is conveyed to the detriment of the quality and craft of art. But [...]
CHAOS + SANCTUARY Chaim Soutine
From the Series of EssaysRitual Practices by Elaine Smollin Soutine knew it. The materialization of feeling can preserve a fleeting world. While he cultivated this affect, Soutine found sanctuary in a series of cities and [...]