Articles By: Alexandra Lerman

New York based filmmaker and artist Alexandra Lerman is the founder of SMAC, a video series about contemporary culture carried by leading online culture publications.
She graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in New York City.
Before producing SMAC, she worked on 3 feature length documentaries as an associate producer: The Ballad of Greenwich Village - a documentary by Karen Kramer about the revolutionary history of the famous New York neighborhood, Déjà Vu Vietnam - a film by Thi Thanh Nga exploring the parallels of the war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq and Russia! The Drama of Art in 12 Episodes - a TV film by Nina Zaretskaya about the retrospective of Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum.
Alexandra’s work has been shown in New York at the Chelsea Art Museum, Artists Space, Janos Gat Gallery and Anthology Film Archives and at Hermitage Museum in St-Petersburg, Russia. Alexandra’s latest project is a documentary about architecture of Central Asia produced with Kyong Park. It will be shown at his exhibition New Silk Roads at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León in July 2009 curated by Octavio Zaya.
No Echo, No Shadow - An Interview with Anton Ginzburg

No Echo, No Shadow - An Interview with Anton Ginzburg

One of the exhibitions during the 3rd Moscow Bienniale was No Echo, No Shadow, Anton Ginzburg’s solo show at Galerie Iragui. After the show opened I sat down with Anton to talk about the exhibition... 

Olafur Eliasson on Individuality and Collectivity

Olafur Eliasson on Individuality and Collectivity

A short TED video from February of this year, in which artist Olafur Eliasson speaks to the need of creating projects that underline individuality as well as collectivity.  ...

Kandinsky

Kandinsky

This year the Guggenheim museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Following  the exhibition of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, who created the signature spiraling building of the museum, Guggenheim... 

Brooklyn at the Guggenheim

Brooklyn at the Guggenheim

You might be tired of the whole “Brooklyn writer” thing, but it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Actually, it is. It’s going uptown. Friday night the Guggenheim museum hosted... 

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

Last night Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, a documentary about the legendary New York band under the leadership of Eugene Hutz, premiered at New York City’s Cinema Village. Directed by  Colombian born Margarita... 

Kazakhstan in Queens: Screening Tulpan at the Socrates Sculpture Park

Kazakhstan in Queens: Screening Tulpan at the Socrates Sculpture Park

Queens, New York. Rainy summer. Wednesday evening. The gray sky promised nothing but another pouring rain. Regardless, Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens went forward with the screening of the a — part... 

Yoko Ono: Anton’s Memory

Yoko Ono: Anton’s Memory

One of the best things about Yoko Ono’s solo exhibition ‘Anton’s Memory’ at Pallazetto Tito in Venice is that the coldness of her minimalist conceptual work is altered by the old... 

Madonna Minter

Madonna Minter

The lush paintings of Marylin Minter seem to have found the best place in the form of video wall paper for Madonna’s tour.  ...

Domesticating the German Pavilion

Domesticating the German Pavilion

The German Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale breaks with tradition by exhibiting the work of British-born artist Liam Gillick. When I approached the pavilion, I saw Liam Gillick and my former professor... 

Suppressing Nationality at the Giardini.

Suppressing Nationality at the Giardini.

In the midst of the Venice Biennale media crush, openings and general party reverie, walking into and through the Czech/Slovak pavilion was a much needed respite and a literal breath of fresh air. Roman...