Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova
Emilio Vedova who died in 2006 began artistic research in the 1930s when surrounded by the 17th century atmosphere of Venice. He was a major figure in the postwar art scene in the 1950s along with contemporaries Burri and Fontana and a leader in art informel movement. In 1997 he won [...]

Aerial view of the Punta della Dogana

Overall, I have to say that I enjoyed the exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi over the Punta della Dogana which felt too similar to the show I saw there two years ago. At least the Palazzo Grassi exhibition felt newer and fresher to me. That being said, here are [...]

Not only was Ileana Sonnabend a wonderful gallerist, but she was also an amazing collector in her own right. This exhibition includes works from her collection created by Italian artists and works by international artists that make reference to Italian culture. First married to Leo Castelli and later Michael Sonnabend, Ileana showed artists like Jasper [...]

Born in Belgium in 1959 Alÿs trained as an architect in Venice before moving to Mexico City where he has lived since 1986. In his artwork, Alÿs confronts issues such as economics, progress and modernity through projects which he documents in drawings, paintings, video and sculpture. The show includes works from the mid-1990s to the [...]

The show at the Guggenheim is arranged chronologically. The focus is a short eight year period when artists were in a race to see who could be the “most modern.” The artists in this show were looking to Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin and Rousseau as inspiration in their quest to move art forward and shatter [...]

I had no idea what to expect entering Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda on the evening of April 14th. On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster created a site-specific staged audience experience in the museum’s rotunda, inspired by this historic event and wherein the audience played a role. Gavin Bryars’s The Sinking [...]

There is a terrific little show at the Rubin Museum highlighting five artists working from the 1960s onward whose work has been influenced by Buddhism. Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism Inspired Contemporary Art showcases works by Charmion von Wiegand, Wolfgang Laib, Atta Kim, Theaster Gates and Sanford Biggers.
Von Wiegand, a friend of the painter Piet Mondrian, [...]

I love working only about ten blocks from the Whitney Museum. They have such terrific shows and last week I popped in to see “Modern Life,” an exhibition that looks at the development of American Realism from 1900-1940 and how artists chose to depict the modernity that was overtaking the country. As the Whitney has [...]

Though I am familiar with Glenn Ligon’s work, I didn’t know that much about his background or the breadth of his work throughout his career. Luckily, I had the privilege of a curator led tour through his current show at the Whitney Museum of Art, the first mid-career retrospective of his work.
The first gallery has [...]

Though contemporary Japanese art is very popular, it is little understood, or so the curators of this show claim. We tend to associate Japanese art with manga and anime but there is a much deeper meaning to contemporary art coming from Japan. On view are paintings, sculptures, videos, installations and photographs by 15 artists ranging [...]