By Bryan Barcena
Bert Rodriguez’s brand of performance art has in some ways set the tone for the group of young artists emanating from Miami. Rodriguez’s pieces can at times reek of irony and sarcasm but more often than not they are an attempt to re-connect viewers with positive and perhaps lost aspects of their own [...]
By Bryan Barcena
The global Art Fair machine continues its global sojourn across North America, Asia and Europe as it makes its next stop October 16-19 in Regents Park London for the 2008 Frieze Art Fair. Marking the fair’s fifth year of operation and third year with primary sponsor, Deutsche Bank, fair organizers have assembled a [...]
By Claire Breukel
My first impression of Yves Netzhammer was that he is the kind of guy that spent hours playing with Lego, building blocks and Fisher Price toys; perhaps this was mixed in with a good dose of horror movies in his teen years. But this is pure speculation. Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1970, [...]
By Thomas Hollingworth
The recent exhibition, Jeff Koons at the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago) chronicled the prolific career of American art icon Jeff Koons. After presenting the first survey of Koons’ work in 1988, the MCA revisited the work of this seminal figure in contemporary art. The exhibition, the first major US museum survey of [...]
By Manuel Alvarez Lezama
Although Puerto Rico has had excellent photographers beginning in the 50’s with Jack Delano, and afterwards with internationally-acclaimed artists of the stature of Héctor Méndez Caratini, Víctor Vázquez, Jochy Melero, Johnny Betancourt, Néstor Millan, Juan Sánchez, Aixa Requena, Teo Freytes, Guy Paizy, and Rafi Claudio, just to name a few, it is [...]
