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 [...]
Ma Yansong “Shanshui City” Exhibition from June 7th to 10th at Wuhao, Beijing Chinese architect Ma Yansong, 38 years old, and clad in black, talks easily about his new project “Shanshui City”, which means City of Mountains and Rivers. His exhibition of architectural models is set in a lush garden of a courtyard house in [...]
Christina Chow is a contemporary artist based in New York. She has shown in New York, Italy, and China, and her work is represented in private collections in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. www.christinachow.net
Why do artists draw? Is it always to scratch down a split of a second of inspiration? Or, something unusual perceived? For the New York artist Mark O’Grady, he draws pictures to remember you. He uses the word “draw “ and not “take” or “make”, as some photos do, thus the action of drawing carries [...]
Do you remember Mathew Barney and his eight-year project Cremaster film cycle (1994-2002), exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in 2003? Do you remember that this epic presentation involved biological, mythological and geological references of sex and the creation of the body called Cremaster, which is a muscle of the male body that regulates testicular contractions [...]
When you were a child, you were vulnerable and you did not understand the world around you, its harshness, its darkness, where did you go? Did you hide yourself under the bed, behind a book, a corner in the back garden? Did you talk to your frog pet, your fantasy friends, did you listen [...]
Before it will move to downtown Manhattan in 2015, the Whitney Museum of American Art has provided an exclusive opportunity to see and experience Robert Irwin’s 1977 installation of “Scrim veil-Black rectangle-Natural Light”. “Irwin’s work offers something profound that cannot be easily and quickly consumed”, says the chief curator Donna De Salvo, “the opportunity to [...]
There is a park in New York City blooming with red mountains, yellow coastlines and copious blue cascade. If you look closer, you would find that these elements of a landscape in spring and summer are actually hand-knotted nautical ropes covered in paint. This is a monumental installation consisting of 1.4 million feet of rope, [...]
by Ligh-tman This year summer came early to New York. As usual, the moment the sun comes out, New Yorkers fill up the streets with their summer outfit- shorts, sandals, hats, beach clothing, even though the temperature is still not warm enough to go to the beach. Perhaps it’s because winters are so long [...]
These were fleeting moments. We found these art works by chance as we rushed to work. Your story is located in the midst of many stories of people rushing to take their trains. Faith and Fate questions the abstractions of transient moments, then, a surprise: a group of birds flying inside an enclosed subterranean train [...]
