Plein Air Is a Sobering Reminder of Human Impact on the Environment From borderlands and elevations to ecology and isolation, curator Aurora Tang brings together artists who work deeply in their regional geographies. by Thao Votang Installation view of Plein Air at MOCA Tucson, 2022 (photo by Julius Schlosburg, courtesy MOCA Tucson) TUCSON — By noon on a July day in Tucson, Arizona, it’s already 100 degrees and still climbing. Going to see an exhibition at the…Read More
Wild kingdom: Dana Sherwood’s Old Lyme show explores “Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness” August 16, 2022 12:38 pm By Kristina Dorsey Artist Dana Sherwood on the film set The Artists’ Bedroom Bestiary in Old Lyme in 2021. (Photo by Paul Mutino, Courtesy of the artist) The bedroom sits on a lawn, as if torn away from a house, only two walls still standing. It looks like a film set, and it is. The green wallpaper is emblazoned…Read More
The Sublime Danielle Steel: For the Love of Supermarket Schlock August 3, 2022 By Dan Sinykin Sean Fader, Sugar Daddy IN 1978, BILL GROSE, editor-in-chief at Dell, decided to make a star of a young author from San Francisco. Grose was a thumper of novelizations from popular film and television, a fan of media tie-ins, a man with his finger in the air to feel the direction of the wind. Dell, a mass-market house, had recently been acquired by…Read More
Ann Shelton, selfie (pale green rose), 2021, pigment print, 117 x 89 cm (framed), edition of 6 + 2 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Two Rooms Ann Shelton: A flower, a maverick By Jo Bragg Purchase the Magazine Online. The word “technology” is elastic, at times mean-ing an artefact an obdurate object—at others, an activity or process. This slippage of application presents opportunities to rethink contemporary and seemingly concrete historical categories. Wild and intangible, the flower, as…Read More
By Duncan Forbes Purchase the Magazine Online. In their film Postmodern Times (2017), Michael Mandiberg recre-ates Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) shot by shot using free-lancers employed via the digital labor platform Fiverr. Filmed in more than twenty-five countries and involving 182 actors, the result is a discordant and strangely compelling transformation of the orig-inal. The Tramp and his numerous global impersonators waddle in and out of the frame, bringing today’s digital factory into critical dialogue with the most famous…Read More
By Dr. Jordan Amirkhani Portrait of Sheida Soleimani during the installation of her solo exhibition at Providence College Galleries as part of the “On The Wall” series. Photo by Mel Taing for Boston Art Review. “The exile knows that in a secular and contingent world, homes are always provisional.[…] Seeing ‘the entire world as a foreign land’ makes possible originality of vision. Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of…Read More
May 24, 2022 What’s Showing in Hong Kong, May 2022: Southside, Wan Chai, Kowloon BY THE EDITORS Galleries in Wong Chuk Hang and the greater Southside district continue to mount some of the city’s most interesting exhibitions, from both international and local artists. An afternoon of exploring the area’s industrial buildings is a chance to see artists in greater depth in these shows compared with the setting of an art fair. Further destinations await in Wan Chai and Tsim Sha…Read More
Amir H. Fallah;s “Joy As An Act Of Resistance” on RTHK’ s The Works Watch in English. Watch in Cantonese. Miniature art, Amir H. Fallah@Denny Dimin Gallery & in the studio: Anna Lo & VSing Humans have been creating miniature representations of reality since prehistoric times. Many of the earliest were funerary objects, but throughout the history of art miniatures have come in the form of paintings, drawings, engravings, book illustrations and sculptures. Miniature paintings came to the fore in…Read More
Artist Amir H. Fallah joins advisor Adam Green the on ArtTactic Podcast. Fallah explains why he believes it is important for artists to openly discuss their experiences navigating the art world. He shares some guiding principles that help him manage several aspects of his career. Fallah discusses what it was like to not experience success immediately in his career, identifies qualities he looks for in a gallery, explains the importance of having relationships with his collectors and reveals how he…Read More
The managing director of the art appraisal and advisory firm the Winston Art Group discusses her latest buys and the best collecting advice she’s received Daniel Cassady 17 May 2022 Von Habsburg with a recent purchase: Stephen Thorpe’s A Mediation Between the Physical and Spiritual World (2022) Courtesy of Elizabeth Von Habsburg One could be forgiven for thinking that being Austrian royalty is the most interesting thing about a person. But that is not the case with Elizabeth von Habsburg….Read More
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend From Ouattara Watts at Karma to Lydia Ourahmane at the SculptureCenter Gabriella Angeleti and Benjamin Sutton 13 May2022 Future Retrieval, Adaptation, Slouch (2022). Courtesy Denny Dimin Gallery and the artist. Future Retrieval: Crystal-Walled Seas Until 4 June at Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Manhattan What if our lives could be as thoroughly designed and ordered as the interior of an aquarium? That seems to be the ideal…Read More
May 11, 2022 Curatorial Essay: Art and the Internet By Kristine Tan ‘Information Wants To Be Free?: Art and the Internet’, 2022, installation view. Image courtesy of Quek Jia Liang (ADM Gallery). ‘Information Wants To Be Free?: Art and the Internet‘ draws on the development of digital technology and networks to consider and critique the online information economy that governs our daily life. ‘Information wants to be free’ was an aphorism made by Stewart Brand, editor of the…Read More
Justin Kamp May 9, 2022 vanessa german Workhorse, 2021 The art world descended en masse upon Manhattan during the first week of May for the inaugural edition of New York Art Week, the far-reaching partnership between museums, galleries, art fairs, and auction houses focused on highlighting “an unprecedented offering of global art market events and institutional exhibitions,” according to the initiative’s website. The weeklong programming had at its heart a quartet of fairs scattered across…Read More
May 9, 2022 Widewalls Editorial Art week is underway in NYC, with four fairs transpiring across Manhattan last week. New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) has held their NYC art fair’s post-pandemic return after a four year hiatus–a triumphant comeback that kicked off with a gorgeous spring day last Thursday, May 5th. NADA is “the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art.” Member galleries from The Hole to The Pit…Read More
‘We’ve Seen a Huge Convergence’: NADA New York Dealers Are Catering to Collectors Who Want Both NFTs and Traditional Media Gallerists say there’s more than enough space for everything. Annie Armstrong, May 6, 2022 It’s hard to believe, but it’s only been just over a year since Beeple’s explosive sale at Sotheby’s changed the genetic makeup of the art market as knew it. Over the course of that year, a split has emerged between those in the art world…Read More
The New Art Dealers Alliance’s fair returns to New York with a massive line-up of 120 exhibitors taking over Pier 36 The Art Newspaper 6 May 2022 Installation view of works by Jeremy Couillard and Stephen Thorpe at the Denny Dimin Gallery booth. Courtesy Denny Dimin Gallery. Jeremy Couillard and Stephen Thorpe Denny Dimin, New York The British painter Stephen Thorpe and the American digital artist Jeremy Couillard have collaborated to create an environment suggestive of…Read More
The New Art Dealers Alliance brings together more than 120 galleries and nonprofit organizations from 37 cities. At NADA New York, on the wall, Abdolreza Aminlari, “Untitled (21.033)”; Dietmar Busse’s “Mother”; and Faye Wei Wei’s “The Lido Is a Ballroom With a Moon Mirrored Ceiling.” Front, Amber Rane Sibley’s “The Ones Who Win,” “Maternal Damnation,” and “Muliebral Canker” at Fierman+ Situations gallery. Jeenah Moon for The New York Times By Martha Schwendener May 5, 2022 Two things can…Read More
BY Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, May 5, 2022 NADA entrance SHANTI ESCALANTE/ARTNEWS The 2022 edition of New Art Dealers Alliance marks the first time since 2018 that the fair has held an edition in New York. The fair is now back at Pier 36, the venue it once held before moving to its location on New York’s West Side. (It later lost that venue to Google, which bought it in 2018.) “Even securing this space was tough,” said Heather Hubbs,…Read More
By Pearl Fontaine May 4, 2022 The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) returns to New York City for its 8th edition, which will be open at Pier 36 from May 5—8. Here, fairgoers will find exhibitions from 120 international presenters, along with a program featuring conversations, performances, and other events. Sheida Soleimani, “Cloud Busting,” 2022, 40 x 30 in, archival pigment print; courtesy of the artist and Denny Dimin Gallery. Highlights to look out for in the…Read More
NADA New York A useful guide to the fairs and exhibitions of interest opening in the city this month. by Cassie Packard May 2, 2022 Amber Rane Sibley, “Generous Helping #3” (2021), ceramic, 13 x 10 x 6 in (image courtesy the artist and FIERMAN, NY) When: May 5–8 Where: Pier 36 (299 South Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan) After a three-year hiatus, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) has returned to New York with 120 exhibitors,…Read More
The new week-long alignment starts the spring art season with a bang, including the returns of the Independent, Nada New York, Tefaf New York and the Future Art Fair Osman Can Yerebakan 2 May 2022 The new week-long alignment starts the spring art season with a bang, including the returns of the Independent, Nada New York, Tefaf New York and the Future Art Fair Visitors to the 2018 edition of the Independent art fair Photo: Etienne Frossard. Courtesy…Read More
How Revenge Shopping Inspired Artist Amir H. Fallah’s New Hong Kong Show Words by AAINA BHARGAVA ｜ April 12, 2022 Revenge shopping and navigating a third-culture identity inform Amir Fallah’s first show in Hong Kong As for many of us, the highlights of lockdown for artist Amir Fallah were mealtimes and receiving packages containing online shopping—the latter event so much so, it sparked the idea behind his first exhibition in Hong Kong, Joy as an Act of Resistance…Read More
YOUR CULTURAL EASTER By Emilie El Jaouhari # editor’s pick 11/04/22 Easter is around the corner! Why don’t you treat yourself with some meaningful, inspirational and colourful exhibitions and events? From Hong Kong talents like Andrew Luk, Corn Shuk Mei Ho, Law Yat Sun, Oscar to Iranian-born American painter Amir H. Fallah, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, French painter Jean Jullien, Japanese lacquer artist Mine Tanigawa, and South African-based photographer Roger Ballen, your Easter break will be a delight. SELECTION OF EVENT …Read More
A Resplendent Rendering of Stephen Thorpe’s Interiority By layering visuals of ornate rugs and lush wallpaper into an architectural corner, the British painter reveals the dualities and rhythms of his own introspection. BY RYAN WADDOUPS March 30, 2022 Here, we ask an artist to frame the essential details behind one of their latest works. Bio: Stephen Thorpe, 40, Atlanta (@stephenthorpe15) Title of work: Boundaries of the Soul. Where to see it: Denny Dimin Gallery (39 Lispenard…Read More
