Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art and Climate Change: RETHINK opens in Copenhagen 2021
With growing urgency, contemporary artists from around the world have been responding to the issue of global climate change. Some spectacular examples of this work will be on display at a major international exhibition of environmental and climate change-related art in Copenhagen, Denmark. RETHINK: Contemporary Art and Climate Change opens October 31, and will be in […]
Amazing Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan 2021
Echigo Tsumari: To view contemporary art you generally head for a museum. But the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, an landscape-scale art festival held every three years in the Echigo Tsumari region of Japan, offers a vastly different experience. Echigo Tsumari is an economically distressed region with a decreasing and aging population. It covers an area of […]
Amazing Street Art on the Reservation 2021
Wheatpaste Art by Jetsorama Chip Thomas is a man with multiple identities. He’s a longtime Indian Health Service physician working on the Navajo Reservation. He’s also a great photographer. He’s also the wheatpaste artist known as Jetsorama, and his large, street art-style images of the people in his community resonate with striking power against the stark Arizona landscape. Check […]
Amazing African Artists Address Environmental Struggles 2021
African Artists: Africa’s multi-dimensional environmental struggles are the focus of a well-received exhibition at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs. Environment and Object: Recent African Art includes works by a number of preeminent and emerging African artists, including El Anatsui, Viyé Diba, Yinka Shonibare, Zwelethu Mthethwa and Barthélémy Toguo. New York Times reviewer Holland Cotter recently praised […]
Lisa Congdon You Won’t Believe her Amazing Art 2021
Stumbling, eclectic and intense; three words that San Francisco based artist Lisa Congdon uses to describe her work. She began in the education and non-profit world and worked her way onto the art scene later in life. When she began producing art at the age of 33, she had no formal training – save a painting class […]
Amazing Living Images Etsuko Ichikawa’s Ephemeral Eternal 2021
Smoke unfurling from an unseen source. A jellyfish-like sea creature bending itself under the waves. A restless spirit caught in a photograph. These are all images that come to mind when looking at the works of Etsuko Ichikawa and images that convinced me there is a definite energy and life in her work. In perusing the pieces […]
Alex Gross ‘Discrepancies’ 2021
The Artist: Alex Gross The Show: Discrepancies Solo Exhibition at Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York. A major showing of new work by the Los Angeles-based artist in conjunction with the release of a new monograph (also titled Discrepancies) from Gingko Press. Gross’s elaborate, dreamlike scenes combine vintage and contemporary imagery to investigate the staging of daily life […]
India Art Summit 2009 in New Delhi Very Impressive
Anish Kapoor, C Curve 2007 The second annual India Art Summit takes place in New Delhi between the 19th and 22nd of August. If you are not planning to visit India but are interested in Indian contemporary art, you can still join in the fun through the India Art Summit 2009 website. The 2009 summit builds on the landmark […]
The Kafka Suite @ the Chelsea Hotel 2021
The Chelsea Hotel: Ok, its around 2 AM, New York time. Our ride from JFK to Manhattan was visually informative enough, but lately, considering the layovers, it seems that just flying across the U.S. takes an entire day. I’m sure this is directly attributed to my finding cheaper flight packages online. In any event, after […]
Optimism in the Age of Global War: Istanbul Biennial 2007
Art biennials are becoming an important fixture in the global art arena and seem to be sprouting up in the most unlikely corners of the world. Before this phenomenon began, there were three key biennials: Venice (founded 1895), Sao Paulo (founded 1951) and Istanbul (in 1973). The Istanbul Biennial, which is equal in stature to the Venice […]
