‘Critiques’ Archives
Trash Transformed into Eco-Art at NY Studio Gallery
America produces about 250 million tons of trash per year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s enough garbage to cover the state of Texas two and a half times. For a new exhibit at the NY Studio Gallery in the Lower East Side called “Trash,” four artists created work that highlights our waste production by repurposing or [...]
YouTube as Fine Art
In the latest high art/pop culture mash-up, the Guggenheim and YouTube have joined forces to create an exhibit that celebrates and examines online video. This weekend, the museum announced the twenty winning videos for the installation “YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video.” The videos were culled from more than 23,000 submissions from [...]
Highlights from The Whitney Biennial
So I finally made it to the Whitney Biennial and it was glorious. After profiling Kate Gilmore, I was really excited to see her piece, and it was definitely one of the best videos in the show. And one of the most popular -- most people stayed glued to the screen for the entire piece. What's really cool, though, is that the video is shown in the [...]
If Kandinsky owned robotic lights…
Last night, I started living the life I’ve dreamt of for years. I attended my first true New York City art world event. In conjunction with the opening of the Kandinsky Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, multi-media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer created an interactive installation about lights and color, inspired by Kandinsky's Yellow Sound [...]