Venice Biennale represents rebalancing in the art world VENICE (AP) — A Nigerian art critic and museum director is the first African to curate the Biennale contemporary art fair that opens Saturday for its seven-month run, while female artists are representing more countries than ever in national pavilions — trends seen as an informal rebalancing […]

by Eleanor Heartney for Art in America For the opening on Jan. 28 of “Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary,” the normally sedate galleries of the Neuberger Museum were transformed by light, sound, smell and live performance. The atmosphere was carnivalesque—the strong aroma of sugarcane mingled with a milder one of tea, while the faint […]

“DENISE” by Michele Gabriele @ TILE Since March 17, TILE project space is hosting DENISE, a solo show by Michele Gabriele. DENISE is a flow in which the environment is pressing and tightens. She is an unlimited permanence but divided in correspondence with the unwinding of purposeful phenomena. The substance is in excess, in surplus […]

Art For A Dream is an online gallery featuring artists who fundraise for charity with their art. We do not take a commission from our artists and the service we offer them is free which helps them to continue to make a positive difference in the cause they are supporting. We give them their own profile which they […]

Interview with Ann Lewis By Stephanie Stepan Originally published on Friday Best: www.fridaybestmag.com Somewhere on a wall in NYC, a little owl with the words ‘Love Life’ next to it marks the spot of Ann Lewis’s first stencil. It wasn’t a smooth operation: In her hurry to not get caught she forgot to take the […]

The Roving Eye By Tony Zaza BE NOT INHOSPITABLE TO STRANGERS LEST THEY BE ANGELS IN DISGUISE. The Better Angels, Terrence Malick’s silent black and white movie restores the promise of cinema as a medium that can invade conscience.  Once viewed psychic apathy is impossible. Poetically bleak and somber, the coonskin voiceover narrative conveys a […]

Through my work I want to break out of the rigid social order, create tensions and to bring about a vivid confrontation with the  issues of “form, light and colors”. My fascination has always been the play of light in the crystals, in the water, and especially the light fraction of sunlight through the prism. […]

The Fidler of Half Moon Bay By Tony Zaza, The Roving Eye Irving Norman fights the corporate slagheap. He fought Franco in 1938.  He missed WWI & WW2.  Too old for Vietnam, he fought within his canvases.  Too too over-the- top to be commercial, too too obvious to ferment action, missing the  abstract expressionist mainstream, […]

We point kaleidoscopes at the light to examine the creation of forms. The Allen Ruppersberg Sourcebook: Reanimating the 20th century, is a similar contrivance. It’s the second sourcebook in a series by Independent Curators International (ICI). The sourcebook is made up of archival materials, which were influential to Allen Ruppersberg’s art, specifically over nine projects (1978-2012). […]

From Cuba to Korea and Switzerland to Spain, this year’s seventh annual ArtHamptons fair—aptly titled “Escape”—will take art collectors and enthusiasts on a tour of established visual and performance artists hailing from around the globe. Among the featured artists is La Roc, one of the world’s first street artists who collaborated with Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, […]