Spotlight

Hyperallergic - The city of Salvador in northeast Brazil sits on a peninsula that divides the Atlantic Ocean from the Bay of All Saints. At the foot of a bluff that looks onto the bay is the stony shore of a sm...

by Dan Aldo Lisa Saltzman’s exquisite black and white photographs exhibited recently at Artifact are focused on, pictorially and ideologically, human condition in the urban environment. Figurative objects in t...

Hyperallergic - Carolee Schneemann, the tirelessly inventive artist whose best-known works dealt with sex and gender, has died at age 79. While she remains most famous for performances in the 1960s and ‘70s and...

The Art Newspaper - The exhibition Michael Jackson: On the Wall is due to open at venues in Germany and Finland despite the furore over the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, which received its premiere in the ...

The Art Newspaper - Although little known outside the Netherlands, Johan van Gogh led an extraordinary life. The grandson of Vincent’s brother Theo (1857-91), he represented a link between the artist’s time and...

Hyperallergic - I am simultaneously grateful for the existence of Documentary Now! and baffled that it continues to exist. A TV show dedicated to parodying a different documentary with each episode seems too ni...

By Dan Aldo The most compelling aspect and the main attribute in the plexiglass sculptures by Franco Paletta is his drive to articulate a dynamic equilibrium by bringing into play a perpetual and dynamic confl...

by Nick Berkow The painterly activity of Neil Kerman, while appearing at first to be essentially abstract in character, is not so much actualized within the spontaneous moment as much as it is allowed to evolv...

Art in America - The collapse of a culture is felt before it is formalized. The earliest traces of fragmentation appear as fault lines, shifts in facades and fashions, cracks in the smooth surface of an establi...