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During the Tsarist era, Russia had no toy industry of its own. Those who could afford it spoiled their children with dolls and toys from Germany and France; everyone else made do with handmade pieces carved from wood or sculpted from clay. Such objects reflected a traditional folk art aesthetic …
The discourse on Art Brut has gained extra dimensions in recent years. The term Art Brut now goes beyond an exclusive focus …
The body of work of young Swiss artist Rebekka Steiger is an exceptional discovery in the way that the artist both embodies …
Giorgio Andreotta Calò represented Italy at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). His works include sculptures, large-scale site-specific installations and spatial works that …
The Department of Art & Design of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track …
The exhibition “Stanze” is a project in three spaces involving six artists: two for every space of Marignana Arte Gallery in Venice. …
Florence Lazar is an artist, filmmaker and photographer. In her work, she seeks to reveal the emergence of a way of speaking, …
Co Westerik is primarily known as a painter, but he has also produced plenty of drawings: his works in pen, pencil, crayon, …
Idyllically located on the river banks in Umeå, a fast-growing and thriving university city with 37,000 students, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts …
Liz Magor’s work finds its center in the peripheral, often replicating the overlooked trappings of daily life and re-presenting them in new …
In the thirty years since his death, Robert Mapplethorpe has become a cultural icon. One of the most critically acclaimed and controversial …
Claudia Comte’s work is defined by her interest on the memory of materials and by a careful observation of how the hand …
Among the artists of Conceptual art’s first wave and one of its most rigorous and inventive figures, Allen Ruppersberg has since the …
For the past fifteen years Maryam Jafri has worked across varied media including expanded sculpture, video, and photography, with a specific interest …
At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape in …
Jacqueline de Jong was involved in European Avant-Garde networks in the 1960s, including the Gruppe SPUR and the politically engaged Situationist International …
Isabella Rozendaal is a documentary photographer. Her work is driven by contrast. Whenever possible, she tries to create images that are at …
Doug Aitken edits together frenetic and unique models of contemporary experience to create a new landscape, one in which he hopes we …
Laure Prouvost is an artist who makes complex installations involving video works characterised by layered stories, surreal humour and wordplay. The artist’s …
Flora Yukhnovich’s paintings trace connections between a visual language originating in the Rococo with contemporary popular culture, examining and questioning how notions …
Jeff Koons is one of America’s most popular contemporary artists. His Neo-Pop aesthetics anappropriations of consumer objects, express a reverence for popular …
The exhibition, “Sun and Spring in January-Next Generation in Norwegian Contemporary Art” focuses on a new generation of Norwegian contemporary artists who …
In his compositions, Nick Oberthaler uses numerous media: photographs, photocopies of images found in books, magazines or on the internet… The finishings …
Tracey Emin moved to London in 1989 to study at the Royal College of Art, where she first came into contact with, …
