Framework

I want to reclaim abstraction from its being just a visual style. After all, before abstraction was a visual style, an abstraction was a philosophical concept that called up multiple images. That's what abstraction means to me: the visual demonstration...

Special Introduction by Barbara PollackEven in this era of global biennials, a presumption lingers that all artists not born (or living or working) in the United States are merely resident-aliens in the territory of art history, immigrants seeking green-card...

In an ideal world Piero Tosi's name would serve as a benchmark for any kind of artistic excellence. One of the greatest costume designers ever, Tosi-now in his eighties and still teaching in Rome-has worked with Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, and...

Sarajevo Film FestivalSarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, August 19-27, 2005In late August, the Sarajevo Film Festival reconvened for its eleventh year amidst the city's bullet-ridden medieval Ottoman wooden houses, pale yellow nineteenth century Austrian...

In the excitement attending François Mitterrand's election as President of France in 1981, the left arrived in office with an extensive social welfare policy based on state intervention in the economy to extend social protections. After only a few years...