On Wednesday I’m off to Iquitos, Peru, again. I spent a month there last year and now I’m going back. Not only is Iquitos inaccessible by road, the whole city seems to share a single dial-up internet connection. I can check email but that’s about it. So this blog will be a bit quiet for [...]

The last post on Bruno Dubner reminded me of work I saw by Colombian artist Milena Bonilla. I first discovered her work about a year ago when, upon arriving in Bogotá, I googled “contemporary columbian photography” and found her name on a list of people exhibited at a show in England a few years ago. [...]

I spent a lot of 2011 traveling, being a bit of a vagabond in different places. During January, February and half of March I was in Colombia. I discovered fantastic artists and took a ton of pictures, none of which have been properly scanned. The negatives have been sitting with a friend in New York [...]

Nuna Mangiante is an artist who primarily works with graphite. Her works that I’ve seen in person are large, abstract drawings where areas of shape are indicated by density and direction of the stroke of her hand. They remind me a bit of Ad Reinhardt’s abstract paintings and, like Reinhardt’s, work, are utterly impossible to [...]