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I am not sure how to categorize the performance/lecture I saw by Mark Leckey last week at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side. Based on an existing theory about the internet, the former Turner Prize winner begins explaining that his interest in the subject came about when he encountered a photo from [...]

Moffatt works in both film and photography. Before she became an artist she worked in television and directed music videos. This has helped her in her current work as a full time fine artist. For her photographs she creates a scene almost by building a film set. She picks locations and hires actors. When she [...]

Born in 1969 in Israel, he received his MFA from Columbia in 2003, and he currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. Best-known for video works of him and his family in odd environments which lie somwhere between fact and fiction, he has also represented Israel in the 2005 Venice Biennale and will have an [...]

I was first introduced to Anatsui’s work in 2006 at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. But it was in the Arsenale at the 2007 Venice Biennale where I fell in love with the majestic shimmer and grandeur of his metal wall sculptures Dusasa I and Dusasa II. I am speaking of his bottle cap [...]

After attending this lecture I have become convinced that Santa Fe is where people in the art world come to die. I was the youngest person in the audience by a long shot. It is actually quite interesting because the art community there is very tight and well-respected. In fact, the reason I attended the [...]

Fred Wilson is a jack of all trades. He is an artist and curator whose career has spanned the past four decades. Never boring, his work challenges viewers to think deeply about the multi-layered art before them . In 2003, Wilson represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. I was lucky enough to see [...]

The title of the talk was “Every Wall is A Door,” a quote of Sol Lewitt’s (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007). He is best known for his wall drawings of which he made 1200 over his entire career. His first, exhibited at the Paula Cooper Gallery in 1968 was done in graphite. The [...]

Robert Storr is an American curator, academic, and critic. He was named Dean of the Yale School of Art in 2006 and was director of the Venice Biennale in 2007. From 1990-2002 Storr was Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. He has written for the following [...]