By Paco Barragán
Collectors have achieved a central role in contemporary art, not that the spirit of today’s collectors has less or nothing to do with yesteryear’s philanthropist or maecenas. With the advent of neo-capitalism and neo-con philosophy, new players and distant economies have descended upon the arts with a set of new motivations that loathe [...]
By Domenico Quaranta
This interview started, as often happens, a long time ago as an informal conversation, when I first realized that the work of Nicola Verlato, an Italian academic painter who seemed to be miles far away from what I was interested in at the time, had something in common with video games. I asked [...]
By Christiane Paul
When Internet art officially came into being with the advent of the WWW in the early 1990s, it immediately inspired a variety of dreams about the future of artistic and curatorial practice, among them the dream of a more or less radical reconfiguration of traditional models and “spaces” for accessing art. As an [...]
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
Big Bang, the Cristina Lucas video installation, which is currently being shown at the Pan American Art Projects in Miami, could be read from its allusions to some landmarks taken from Art History tradition. I will mention three of these images. Since the projection is unusually placed on the ceiling of the [...]
A Conversation with Javier Panera
Erwin Olaf (1959, Hilversum, The Netherlands) has lived and worked in Amsterdam since the beginning of the 1980s. Classical, contemporary, fantastic, baroque, caustic, ironic, transgressive… many adjectives could be applied to this prolific artist capable of generating great support as well as strong rejection due to the direct and explicit [...]
Alvaro Rodríguez-Fominaya in Conversation with Russell Storer
On occasion of the opening of Asia Pacific Triennial 6 (APT6), one of the oldest biennials in the region, our contributor Alvaro Rodríguez Fominaya conducts an email interview with Russell Storer, a co-curator of the Brisbane-based event. Russell Storer was formerly a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art [...]
By Janet Batet
One of the most interesting polarities that governs the contemporary urban story is duality –an area not devoid of tremendous tension- comprised of public space and private space. This opposing notion, inherited from the Greek polis and consolidated by the Roman Empire, signifies for the West the founding and modeling –at a symbolic [...]
A Conversation with Paco Barragán
Spanish-Greek painter based in New York Pedro Barbeito Marulis kicks off a series of on-going interviews focused on change and innovation in contemporary artistic practices, and the desire of giving visibility to fresh and challenging voices. A student of Mel Bochner, Barbeito Marulis studied at Brandeis, Skowhegan and Yale, respectively. [...]
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply and disseminate the universe.
Jorge Luis Borges, 1940.
“Dan Graham: Beyond,” the retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and currently shown at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, is, so far, the most important recognition of Graham’s career in American [...]
By Sharmistha Ray
South Asian-American Diaspora art in the United States has undergone a critical ideological evolution not to mention a radical integration into the American context from the 1990s to the present day. In the Nineties - with the exception of an artist like Pakistani-American Shahzia Sikander, who broke into the art mainstream early on [...]
