By Janet Alfonso
The 28th edition of the international art fair, ARCOmadrid-2009, made it clear that the current economic crisis has been manageable, as far as the art market is concerned.
Fairs are social, economic and cultural events; in recent decades, however, the second of these aspects has become more prominent. Sales outcome, in terms of pricing [...]
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
The display of the art pieces in “My Secret Life” -the personal exhibition of the artist Lutz Bacher, which is currently at PS1, the New York dependency of the MoMA- offers the impression of a group of isolated shows, rather than a retrospective of a single artist. There is a sense of fragmentation [...]
By Claire Breukel
Having worked with Miami-based artist Clifton Childree on his sizable video and installation project Dream-Cum-Tru, I discovered that his artwork is a clear extension of his personality. As somewhat of an oxymoron, Childree is humble, kind and caring, yet carries a sense of humor that packs a punch! A punch that made him [...]
By Janet Batet
Now it appears clear. The spatial axis has been definitively replaced by the temporal axis, which establishes itself in our modernity as the only true tie that binds us to our contemporaries. Within this new errant experience that now confronts a global culture marked by constant flux (the flow of migration, travel, information, [...]
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
If we look back at Gustavo’s oeuvre over a span of twenty years, we can easily recognize that he has been interested in social expressions of power. In the 1980s, when his work started receiving attention, he was using metaphors of Roman architecture as a reference to the Cuban social system. The dark, [...]
By Johnlee S. Curtis
Most collectors purchase art either from galleries or at art auctions, with the latter method gaining popularity in recent years. When bidding for art at an auction, lot symbols - those auction catalogue ciphers that relate to a variety of disclosures - can prove difficult to fully understand. Further complicating matters, some [...]
By Sharmistha Ray
Brooklyn-based visual artist Yamini Nayar creates photographs of constructed interior and exterior environments to reflect upon the location of identity vis-à-vis place in the cultural domain. Each of Nayar’s environments starts with a three-dimensional model in the form of an architectural box made out of cardboard in which the artist places both handcrafted [...]
By Biljana Ciric
Gabriela Maciel is a Brazilian artist and performer,? who participated in “A Starting Point: Intrude Art & Life 366,” at Zendai MoMA (Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art)( January 18th - April 18th, 2009). Using diverse media, such as, painting, sculpture, installation, video and photography, she passed through different phases in her production, [...]
By Johnlee Curtis
Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the now-famous “HOPE” poster, a digitally-designed depiction of President Obama derived from a photograph taken by photographer Mannie Garcia and owned by the Associated Press (AP), has been embroiled in litigation on the issue of whether he violated the AP’s copyright from his use of the photograph. [...]
-A Conversation with Mark Koven
By Claire Breukel
Mark Koven and I meet at Out of the Blue Café. It’s 10am on a Tuesday morning and he orders a jasmine tea. He has had a late night and just downed two cups of coffee before meeting me and he needs the tea to combat the caffeine. Despite [...]
