Americans who know Cuba only through movies (God-father 2, Before Night Falls) and familiarity with a few star Cuban artists (Wifredo Lam, Ana Mendieta) are guilty of the oxymoron of mainland insularity, a product of Cold War tensions that arose in 1959 with the...
Adam Katseff
Throughout our evolution we’ve been afraid of the dark. As creatures primarily endowed with encephalic gifts, we aren’t well-equipped to vie with nocturnal animals, full of tooth and claw and with more finely attuned senses. They make quick work of us when we don’t...
In 2040 at Jaus Gallery
In 2040Jaus Gallery Joe Biel, Stack 4 (Dave)It’s good to know artists are constantly thinking, cogitating, peeling the proverbial cultural onion, to transform our human experience into a charged and luminous imaginative landscape. Such is the case at Jaus Gallery this...
Transformer
Where are the drag queens (or kings, jacks, and aces of spades or 3’s of clubs, for that matter) of yesteryear? Or simply the troupes of maskers and performers and club personalities one might see at punk and post-punk nightclubs and discotheques, underground clubs...
“VOLTA Video”
Siri Berg at VOLTA NY 2014
The veteran color theorist has a four decade-plus career, including works in the permanent collections of institutions like the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York) and the Moderna Museet (Stockholm). Berg is equally versatile in sublime color spectrums and...