Moshi Moshi, Medici! Completely Biased Adventures in Contemporary Art Collecting…

Anyone who has seen mere images of the new expansion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will agree: millions of dollars just went down the drain. Not only does the entrance to LACMA and the Broad Contemporary building, both designed by star architect Renzo Piano, look like an outlet mall in Arizona, but […]

I’ve never been a big fan of Roberta Smith. She’s a bit of a blue-chip old school fan to me.
I do though think she is a bit right with the choice of Cai as the first Chinese contemporary artist to stage a solo show at the Guggenheim. I could think of at least two, Ai […]

I’m very excited about the openings this Friday and Saturday of Rashid Johnson, Tim Lee and Sudarshan Shetty. While Johnson is pretty new to the scene, Lee and Shetty have had solo shows in New York before and Shetty in particular is bit of a superstar in India.
All three have a deep connection to engaging […]

Francesca von Hapsburg not only comes from one of the great modern and contemporary art collecting dynasties, she herself is making immesurable strides in commissioning special projects with such big-thinking artists as a video with Jun Nguyen-Takahashi and a temporary exhibition space in an isolated island in Crotia with David Adjaye & Olafur Eliasson.
Her […]

So how did I derive this wonderful category?
From Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal, of course!

Robert Frank, Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich, Crown (June 5, 2007)
 
I’m a great admirer of his writings on the sad state of affairs of people of wealth: the die-hard […]

I am a long-time admirer of the great anime artist Yoshitaka Amano. The creator of such video games as Final Fantasy, Amano presents 30 new works, as well as new anime films. He applies automotive paint on aluminum to depict classic anime heros and villains in action poses, as if taken from the page of […]

Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s first show a Team Gallery was a rerun of the same concepts she’s been working on now for several years: rethinking the concept of “sculpture” through the trembling of the organic with the synthetic. In fact, I often thought Rodriguez sometimes verges to Petah Coyne’s experiments. This is particularly true in the […]