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Published today in our ESSAY section is Joyce Korotkin's mediation on the work of Robert Longo. 'Images of power in its myriad manifestations form the nucleus of Robert Longo's oeuvre', she begins. To read her essay in full click here.

The winner of the February Your Studio competition is R. Pirkenstein. Joyce Korotkin, critic, curator and artist, comments 'R. Pirkenstein's "3x schwarze Galle" is a vaguely ominous and disquieting image; almost threatening and shrouded in mystery, its dark inspiration seems to stem from the artist's psyche, successfully bypassing the digital medium's playful seductions and limitations in its rich interplay between the illusion of depth and the flatness of both line and the screen itself.' The S... read more...

New in our Essay section today, where we publish articles by the best critics, curators and writers on art, is Joyce Korotkin's essay on the emergence over the last five years of a new era of art which she terms Neo Baroque - 'completely ineffable, it is more a state of mind than a tangible movement, somewhat akin to a scent wafting in the air - a visual perfume full of decadent excess. Aesthetically more redolent of the Baroque than of Postmodernism but having many characteristics in common wit... read more...

The winner of the January Your Studio competition is Rengha Rodewill. The New York-based writer and critic Daniel Kunitz, the judge of the January Your Studio competition, commented about the winning entry: 'I have chosen 'Separability II' by Rengha Rodewill for its sophisticated use of pattern in abstraction. Also, it manages to be monochrome without looking maudlin.' ... read more...

On Tuesday 18 December "And Who Are You? Work from Saatchi Online" opened at the at the Sara Tecchia Roma New York gallery. Saatchi Online's first exhibition in New York presents the work of 12 artists based in New York, all of whom are registered on the website, and whose work explores questions about how the established art world parcels out or responds to value, fame, favoritism, integrity and pretension. Read on for a link to the New York Sun's article about the show.
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Morgan Falconer, Zak Smith, James Birch, Richard Cork, Joyce Korotkin, Subodh Gupta, Barry Schwabsky and April Lamm give their tips on the shows not to miss on your summer travels, including the Neo Naturists in London (below), Marc-Camille Chaimowicz and Anthony McCall in France, Tino Sehgal in Frankfurt, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring in Pittsburgh, emerging sculpture at Spike Island, Bristol, Artempo in Venice, and two group shows in New York - one exploring chance and determinism in art; the o... read more...

Chris Graefensteiner's work stalks the psychological terrain between fairy tale, memory, horror and fantasy, combining all into images that are as eerie and discomfortingly familiar as they are enchanting.

We have launched a new section on this magazine featuring essays on art and artists by the world's leading writers, critics and curators. Our first three essays are by the critic and curator Dave Hickey (below), writing about Dexter Dalwood, the writer Alain de Botton on Edward Hopper, and the critic and artist Joyce Korotkin on drawings by Robert Longo. New essays will be added regularly to this section - look out for upcoming essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Neville Wakefield and Jerry Saltz. ... read more...