11. Jody Zellen: Notes On Multi-Channel/Screen Work

Spring has brought warm as well as cold weather to Manhattan and with the change in air there has been a change in attitude toward digital media. The presentation of digital works ebbs and flows: It is present and then conspicuously absent from the commercial galleries that dot Manhattan. This spring there have been numerous…

10. Craig Hubert on “Migrating Forms”

Two years ago, when the New York Underground Film Festival decided to close its doors and reopen shop under the title Migrating Forms, it was more than a fresh name change. The film which gave them their new moniker, an odd but singular vision by James Fotopoulos released in 1999, would be used as the…

09. Nalina Moses Reviews Heather Rowe: “Trouble Everyday”

Perhaps no architectural form is as mythologically loaded as the single-family house. The image of a suburban house, with its pitched roof, chimney, and double-hung windows, conjures instantly a complex set of social, cultural and sexual mores. Heather Rowe's installation "Trouble Everyday" at D'Amelio Terras looks cunningly at both physical and emotional constructions of "house."…

08. Sandra Orellana Sears Interviews Peter Dobey

WHEN DID YOU FIRST BECOME INTERESTED IN ART?I was always interested in art as a child -- or interested in being an artist, at least. I remember my first trip to the (NYC) MoMA vividly. But I didn’t go to school; I was raised in the mountains. So I made stuff and just daydreamed all…

07. Sascha Feldman Reviews Sally Mann: “The Family and the Land”

A major thread of Sally Mann’s photographic work is the intimate documentation of her children’s development. However, the images that make up Immediate Family (1984-94) are not simply family photographs -- they are characterized by a high art, self-conscious attention to the subtle, serendipitous details of everyday life. It is this tension between her intimate imagery and…

06. Echo Hopkins Reviews Irving Penn: “Portraits”

Irving Penn’s death just four months before the opening of the Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery made it all the more poignant. It became a retrospective of sorts, displaying the portraits he created from the beginning of his career in the late 1940s to the last portrait he captured of Julian Schnabel in…

05. Oksana Katchulaba On Ambroise Vollard

In 1979, citing non-payment for a safe deposit box rental, a bank vault at the Société Générale in Paris was opened for the first time in many years to reveal an incredible hidden-away treasure: a priceless collection of paintings, drawings, books and prints by some of the most famous and influential artists of the late…

04. Britt Julious Reviews Noelle Mason’s “Bad Boys”

It is part of the American ethos to grossly champion hysterical masculinity. Within the past decade, our devotion to a grotesque and distorted idea of masculinity in the name of “freedom” has cost thousands of innocent lives both at home and abroad. The lack of rationale set forth during the aughts created a quagmire of…

03. Ana Finel Honigman On Kate Moss as Muse And Subject

Kate Moss may have inspired more artists' work than any other non-religious or royal female subject in history. Depictions of the thirty-five year old English model or references to her have found their way into works of all mediums and styles by artists at all levels of mastery and recognition. Some artists seek to depict…

02. Tyler Considine: Notes on Gay Minimalism

Minimalism and its aesthetics have experienced a resurgence in contemporary art. Gay Minimalism, a particular brand of this new manifestation, is unlike the Minimalism of the 1960s; it is not founded on reactions to previous art histories nor does it challenge the perception of forms or aesthetic autonomy; instead it embodies gay male identity, addressing…