Contributed by David Carrier / Upon entering Peter Doig’s show at Serpentine South Gallery in London, you see Painting for Wall Painters (Prosperity P.o.S.), a vibrant depiction of a half-finished mural he photographed in the Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city. If Henri Rousseau had actually gone to the tropics, and they had inspired him to intensify his pigments, he might have painted something like Doig’s three large-scale works, which feature sensuous, saturated colors depicting the Lion of Judah, a Rastafarian symbol, freed in the streets of the city.
Intermedia
Michelle Jaffe’s multi-sensory encounters
Contributed by Susan Silas / Sculptor and inter-media installation artist Michelle Jaffe creates time-based experiential works at the intersection of sculpture, sound, video, and performance. Sound has been the connective tissue of her work since 2003. Susan Silas is a visual artist working in video, sculpture, and post-photographic media. Her primary subject for the past 30 years has been embodiment. From that perspective, she talked with Jaffe about her video-and-sound installation GRIFTER’s Gambit.
CounterPointe: Artists and choreographers collaborate
Contributed by Sharon Butler / For the past seven years, Norte Maar, an enterprising and energizing interdisciplinary arts group based in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn […]




















