Growing up in Los Angeles, I have absorbed my personal history from family lore.  Most of us have come to this country as immigrants with nothing.  My grandparents and great-grandparents began anew, they came to the United States from Eastern Europe.  Cast-off or used objects already imbued with the history of others, aided in the […]

With a pop- up solo exhibition Tales from Hood, a collection of paintings inspired by their childhood in Chattanooga the duo are now a driving force in the art world.  Brothers Sidney and Thurman Sewell (aka The ATL Twins), are consummate collaborators and are celebrating their second project with fashion house Rochambeau.  Founded in 2007 […]

Coinciding with Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was invited to slip his subversive, defiant installations and sculptures among the stately rooms at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the same home where Sir Winston Churchill was born. Founded by Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill and directed by contemporary art advisor and market commentator Michael Frahm, […]

In the early morning hours before opening its doors to the public, VOLTA Artistic Director Amanda Coulson sits behind an industrial wood table with a cappuccino steaming in front of her in the Markthalle.  The space has undergone many changes since it was first built and served as an active marketplace until 2004.  Now the […]

In the increasingly competitive field of Installation art, having a booth at one of the three incarnations of the Frieze Art Fair (be it Frieze London, Frieze NY, or Frieze Masters) becomes a game of consistent reinvention.  Galleries are faced with the challenge of presenting dynamic, elevated pieces without showing the same work twice.  There […]

It’s Tuesday afternoon and preparation for the WestEdge Design Fair is in full swing next door to Installation Magazine’s headquarters.  A palpable energy resonates through the vast expanse of the Barker Hangar where forklifts make donut figurations as they transport wood crates filled with design gems.  The perpetual sound of hammers and power drills work in […]