The grotesque skeleton of a rotting fish lies next to the sub-human’s feet as this New Life Unfolding figure contemplates crossing a river to confront two scowling Maori tribesmen. “Do not come here,” they warn. “Your destiny lies in your…
The Enemy of the State
During the Cuban Renaissance, a period when kitsch, pop art and fanciful imagery revolutionized the island’s art scene, members of the Puro were hailed as bold, fearless innovators. They emphatically painted Cuban life with a whimsical, theatrical brush in the mid…
Celebrating Freedom’s Song
“Reggae Star Shot: Motive probably political.” The diplomatic cable announcing the December 3, 1976 attempt to assassinate Bob Marley, and to silence his calls for peace, along with social equality, saddened and shocked the world.Marley was fomenting opposition to the…
Listening to the Snow in Romania By Mariangela Bruzzi
Huddled in a small minibus, their bags full of food and other necessities of life, Romanian women in tattered coats tried to stave off the evening chill. They held their possessions tight as if an unknown force were about to…
The King in his New Realm
The King was relentless. Nothing stopped him from shooting a photograph that would shock our senses. If it meant rushing into a toilet to photograph Billy Idol or The Ramones, he was ready, quick to chronicle what was happening. He’d…
The Return to Earth By Edward Kiersh and Sasha Nikitin
Unraveling metaphysical puzzles, leaping over cosmic walls, plunging through halls of mirrors, and sweeping aside illusions, the Great Navigator has finally returned home. It’s been an eventful journey, complete with new recognitions and awakenings. She has tapped into the…
Emergence By Jaqueline Berti
One seductress flirts with the stars.Another sultry sprite teases us with her enchanting dancing, leaving everything to our imagination. A winged woman is with child, an erotic burst of fantasy, whimsy and magic, ready to take flight. All of these…
Turning Ice into Heat
Standing in front of Rothko’s blocks of blue, the flamboyant abstract compositions that seemed to burst off the Köln museum walls, the impressionable ten-year-old girl was more than dazzled. Unable to move, the Dutch adolescent experienced “a sensual, religious-like” moment.…
Time, A Chair, and Other Musings from My Country
As Time moves forward, tick, tock, tick, tock…eternity vibrates through space, mysterious and scattered like the dust on old books. We are bedeviled. What to make of this notion, Time and its philosophical adjustments. Do we dare take the journey…
Jean-Pierre Sergent & Thierry Savatier AT THE BESANÇON FINE ART & ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM – Interview
INTERVIEW-TALK BETWEEN ARTIST JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT AND ART HISTORIAN THIERRY SAVATIER IN FRONT OF THE FOUR PILLARS OF HEAVEN EXHIBITION AT THE BESANÇON FINE ART & ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM | JULY 2nd 2021 Transcription of the filmed Interview between Jean-Pierre Sergent and…