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Work from the exhibition: Japan Supernatura, Art Gallery of New South Wales- Sydney, 2019, Courtesy Art Gallery of New South Wales

ART-TRIBUTE:Japan Supernatural,Part II

Japanese artists across the centuries have created a lively parade of magical animals, fiendish imps, legendary monsters and ethereal spirits. Known in …

Mikiko-Hara

ART FAIRS:Paris Photo 2019

Paris Photo is the world’s largest Art Fair of photography, and is held annually since 1997 in the Grand Palais, Paris. The …

Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991. Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2019. Blown up garden shed and contents, wire, light bulb. Tate: Presented by the Patrons of New Art (Special Purchase Fund) through the Tate Gallery Foundation 1995. Image courtesy the artist, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Frith Street Gallery, London. Photograph: Anna Kučera

ART-PRESENTATION: Cornelia Parker

One of the most important artists working today, Cornelia Parker is known for her transformation of everyday objects into unexpected, haunting scenarios …

Matt Johnson

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Matt Johnson

Renowned for his wry marriages of everyday subjects with raw physical matter, Matt Johnson’s sculptures explore the paradox of visual forms through …

Mary Corse, Untitled (White Light Inner Band), 2015, Glass microspheres and acrylic on metal, 4.6 x 18.3 m, © Mary Corse, Photo: Flying Studio, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Mary Corse

Mary Corse has built a practice that occupies an independent space at the intersection of minimalist painting, Abstract Expressionism and scientific inquiry. …

Antoni Tàpies, Colador i Tassa, 1998, mixed media and assemblage on wood, 174.9 cm x 200 cm, © Fundació Antoni Tàpies / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid

PRESENTATION: Antoni Tàpies

Antoni Tàpies refined a visual language inspired by a wide range of sources that coalesce into a complex fusion of materials, gestures, …

Lee Bul, Perdu XI, 2018, Mother of pearl and acrylic paint on lacquered wooden base panel with steel frame, 32 x 74 inches, © Lee Bul

ART CITIES:N.York-Lee Bul

Lee Bul is considered one of the foremost women artists from Asia to emerge in the international art scene in the 1990s. …

Irving Penn, Tuberous Begonia, New York, 1973, Pigment print mounted to board, print made 2007, Image, paper and mount 42,5 x 52,7 cm, Frame 66,9 x 67,6 x 3,9 cm, © The Irving Penn Foundation

ART CITIES:Paris-Irving Penn

Irving Penn was one of the most important and influential photographers of the 20th Century. In a career that spanned almost 70years, …

Tomma Abts, Samke (Detail), 2019, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 48.3 x 38.1 cm), © Tomma Abts, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Tomma Abts

One of the most significant artists of her generation and the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, Tomma Abts is known for …

Gerhard Richter, Betty, 1991, color offset print on cardboard, mounted on plastic board, in frame, 50 1/4 × 40 inches (127.5 × 101.5 cm), edition of 25 © Gerhard Richter 2019

ART CITIES:N.York-Gerhard Richter

Throughout his career, Gerhard Richter has remained at the forefront of contemporary abstraction and image-making, embracing haptic process and technological advancements in …

Thomas Joshua Cooper, Uncharted Dangers, Clear—Prime Head Ice Wall, Trinity Peninsula, Graham Land, the Antarctic Peninsula, the North-Most Point of Continental Antarctica, 63°13´ S, 2008, selenium- and gold-toned chlorobromide gelatin silver print, 26 3/4 × 38 3/4 in., Collection Lannan Foundation, © Thomas Joshua Cooper, photo courtesy of the artist

PHOTO:Thomas Joshua Cooper

Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of the most celebrated and distinctive landscape photographers working anywhere in the world today. He was born …

Left: Allan Sekula, Replica of door to blacksmiths’ shed, in situ (original in collection of Warsaw Ethnographic Museum.) Ochojno, Poland July, 2009, detail from “Polonia and Other Fables”, Right: Allan Sekula, Art Isn’t Fair, 2012, (video still) [detail]

ART CITIES:Paris-Allan Sekula

Allan Sekula revitalized documentary photography, provided critical foundations for theorizing the relationship between word and image, and was one of the earliest …

Christian Boltanski, Animitas (Small Souls) [video still], 2015, © Christian Boltanski, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

MIRAGES LVII

This month we will make long walks from Art Fairs to the major exhibitions and from the Traces to Architecture!!! Paris Photo …

Yukinori Yanagi, Akitsushima Instruction, 2000, Acrylic on canvas, 97 7/8 x 131 1/4 inches, © Yukinori Yanagi, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe Gallery

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Yukinori Yanagi

Yukinori Yanagi focuses on large-scale and site-specific installations that interrogate the politics of institutional borders and boundaries often drawing from systems of …