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Monthly Archives: February 2009

AFRICA at Wolfgang Roth and Partners Fine Art

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Relief Plaque with Bird Hunt, Benin – Nigeria ca. 1650 / 17th Century Bronze. 16.9 x 13.3 inches / 43 x 34 cm. Kotalla 03300807. Provenance: Collection Paul Garn. Dresden, Germany. Purchased in 1920/30, Paris. Image courtesy of Wolfgang Roth and Partners Fine Art. By David Rohn Wolfgang Roth and Partners’ current show ‘AFRICA’ is [...]

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When Art and Bureaucracy Clash

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Outdoor installation in Clifton Childree’s yard. Photo courtesy of Clifton Childree By Victor Barrenceha Clifton Childree is an artist whose work always seems to be at odds with the law.  We all remember last summer when police officers burst in and shot a mannequin at Childree’s “Dream-Cum-Tru” installation at Locust Projects. Now it seems the [...]

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Art appreciation ‘a gender issue’

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Cezanne’s Mont-Sainte Victoire as seen from Bibemus Quarry (1897). According to an article published yesterday by the BBC, research presented by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that when it comes to appreciating art, men and women really do think differently. Professor Francisco Ayala, from the University of California Irvine, and colleagues [...]

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To ‘Err’ Is Perfect: A Perfect Human at Dorsch Gallery

Monday, February 16, 2009

By David Rohn   The current offering at Dorsch Gallery is a thoughtful group show called ‘A Perfect Human.’ Curated by Milena Hoegsberg (a curator from Denmark who works in New York) and Megha Ralapati (a curator from Chicago who lives and works in New York where she directs a gallery and specializes in contemporary from [...]

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Screw Valentines Day, what are we going to eat?

Thursday, February 12, 2009

. HATE Flyer / Confection Flyer.   In addition to a few events of merit happening in Wynwood this weekend (notably Tom Scicluna’s “Pinched” at the David Castillo annex and a presentation of Cady Noland’s iconic 1987 essay “The Meta-language of Evil” at Dorsch Gallery in relation to their current exhibition “A Perfect Human” (both 7 [...]

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How Soon is Now at Vancouver Art Gallery

Friday, February 6, 2009

Kristi Malakoff. Target, 2005/8. Crepe paper party streamers. Photo courtesy of the artist. “Contemporary art from here. Now” is the exhibition’s byline which plainly summarizes its intent: to make a location specific presentation of new contemporary art. The exhibition’s title “How Soon Is Now” evokes one characteristic of the work in the exhibition: an immediacy [...]

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