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Irony with a Touch of Gauze and Duct Tape
Review by Deblina Chakraborty

G. R Iranna, Ribbed Routes, Image Courtesy Guild Art Gallery
Whoever said that the universe conspires to make your heartfelt wishes come true must be right. Just as I was wondering whether I would again find two exhibitions which were independently good as well as [...]

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By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
for New York Times

What would the proverbial alien, beamed into the Grey Art Gallery for a viewing of “Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961-1991,” discern about New York toward the end of the last millennium? Maybe this: That it was very gritty, very gay and very Caucasian. Organized by Philip Gefter, a [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVES
Curated by Khaled Ramadan and Anni Venalainen
Artists: Raed Yassin, Mahmoud Hojeji, Ayman Ramadan, Dalia A – Kury, Mounira Mounira, Najib Mrad and Khaled Ramadan
Exhibition Dates: January 7th – February 18th 2010
Opening Reception: January 7th 2010, 6:30–8:30 pm
Venue: The Guild, NY
45 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10010
www.theguildny.com
NEW YORK—The Guild Art Gallery [...]

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It’s odd to call an exhibition with excellent examples of contemporary and historical female artists’ work a failure. But the work in it failed to accomplish its goal, which is anyway dated to say the least, of “reclaim[ing] the traditional dominion of the ‘male gaze,’” as stated in the press release. Even if the appealing [...]

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“For the past 100 years everyone in China was laying down and sleeping,” says artist Zhang Huan of the economic circumstances in his country and its more-than-half-century-old communist regime. “Now they’re awake.” Of course, when you wake a sleeping giant, there will be unexpected consequences, like the growing influence of a rising middle class that [...]

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Whether the lashed back of an enslaved person, the charred remains of a lynching victim or a terrified marcher fleeing a fire hose, shocking images of degradation seem to dominate the visual history of the African-American experience. Amid so much hardship, one might wonder what, if anything, to say about the nature of black beauty [...]

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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum present ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of over 70 politically charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City. The exhibition chronicles [...]

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The other week I took my son Dean to see the “Arts of the Samurai” show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As we walked around admiring the many gleaming sword blades, fantastic helmets and braided suits of iron armor, I detected something unfamiliar in the air, at least in this museum. I couldn’t quite [...]

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