Bangkok Kaoru Motomiya’s recent installation at the new art center of the lim Thomson House in Bangkok was titled White Book. …see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
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Lucas Samaras
Athens Sponsored by the Costopoulos Foundation, Lucas Samaras’s first European retrospective was hosted at the NationaI Gallery of Athens and curated by Katerina Koskina, who also organized the Greek section at this year’s Venice Biennate. …see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
“None of the Above Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists”
San Juan, Puerto Rico “None of the Above, Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists” was organized by Real Art Ways, in Hartford, Connecticut, an urban center with a substantial Puerto Rican population. …see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Matthew Ritchie
Philadelphia Matthew Ritchie’s lines, shapes, and symbolic personages spin themselves across the surfaces of walls, into space, down onto the ftoot and back onto the walls as diagrams and shadows….see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Mayumi Sarai
New York Japanese-born Mayumi Sarai moved to New York City in 1991, continuing her education at the New York Studio School after graduating from Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo….see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
“The Kingdom of Siam: The Art of Central Thailand, 1350-1800”
Salem, Massachusetts To many Occidentals, the category “Asian sculpture” brings to mind the image of gilt Buddhas, all looking much the same, locked into a humdrum placidity. …see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Manuel Neri
San Francisco Manuel Neri’s sculpture reveals a genuine grappling with form and process. His life-sized female figures have the kinetic presence of living beings…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Tim Hawkinson
Los Angeles The opening room ofTim Hawkinson’s mid-career survey, which debuted at the Whitney, featured the artist’s cathartic, gargantuan cardboard tree-house, Pentecost (1999)….see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Caroline Cox
New York I first encountered Caroline Cox’s ingenious and gloriously trippy installation ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky at dusk, in a buzzing, whirling art opening crowd….see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
