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A pioneer of Italy’s Arte Povera movement who left the art world in the early 1970s, Piero Gilardi is in the midst of a revitalized career, with new works and a “living art” park in Turin.
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Photographing—or, more often, rephotographing—historical source materials, this American-born artist, who has lived in Austria for 21 years, explores the multiple “generations” of imagistic meaning.
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Refusing to be constrained by tradition, neglect or touristic clichés, vanguard Thai artists deftly engage the modern world.
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Following her own intricate painting system, Quaytman produces often puzzling works that at once test and extend the viewer’s perceptual capabilities.
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In 1948, at the age of 20, Yves Klein laid claim to the kingdom of the sky.1 Its presence hovers in the monochrome blue panels he began painting in 1955. But Klein’s blue is not the pallid tint of the daytime sky. It is the dark, electric blue of the Paris sky at nine o’clock on a summer night, when the energy of the vanished day still resonates through the atmosphere, and the headlights of the traffic seem like sparks descending from above.
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May the ghost of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney forgive me, but I really miss Caligula. That is, I wish that the thoughtful but tepid current edition of that impossible curatorial predicament known as the Whitney Biennial contained at least one pulse-quickening phenomenon like Francesco Vezzoli’s faux-porn Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s ‘Caligula’ in the 2006 show. (I dismissed it back then as merely filling “the arty cineplex slot.” Ah, but what’s life without regret?)
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In Conversation: Danica Dakic Takes Off Masks
09/03/09
When Danica Dakic (abandoned her architectural studies in Bosnia to focus on art, it wasn't the last t… Read More
600 Words With Michael Portnoy
08/28/09
In 2000 Momus was in a Chelsea gallery recording people singing, when an otherwise rather quiet man op… Read More
You Missed It: Ethan Shoshan
09/03/09
A group show of mixed media work organized by Ethan Shoshan "I'm always thinking of you even when I'm … Read More
