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Tom Wesselmann, Scribble Version of Still Life #58 (Opaque), 1984-91, Enamel on cutout aluminium, 147.3 x 176.5 cm, © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann / Licensed by ARS/VAGA- New York, photo: Jeffrey Sturges

ART-PRESENTATION:Tom Wesselmann-Flowers

Tom Wesselmann became one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s, rejecting abstract expressionism in favor of the classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape. He created collages and assemblages incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera in an effort to make images as powerful as the …

Titus Kaphar, Shifting the Gaze, 2017. Oil on canvas, 210.8 × 262.3 cm, Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs Jr., Fund, 2017.34, © Titus Kaphar, Photo: Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION:Titus Kaphar

Titus Kaphar is a painter and a sculptor. His work explores and wrestles with our long history of slavery and racism. He …

Liu Jianhua, Square No. 37, 2014, Porcelain, steel, 4 x 74 x 148 cm, © Liu Jianhua, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION:Liu Jianhua

Liu Jianhua is one of China’s rising stars in the contemporary art scene, who experiments with comprehensive materials. After graduating from college …

Mehraneh Atashi, Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict, 2018, Grazer Kunstverien, Graz

ART-PREVIEW:City Prince/sses

The exhibition “City Prince/sses” at Palais de Tokyo is presented as an imaginary, multiple and complex city, without borders, messy, staggering and …

Carsten Nicolai, bausatz noto ∞ (color version), 1998/2015, Record player, color vinyl records with locked grooves, mixing board, amplifier, loudspeaker/ headphones, Dimension variable, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART-Leipzig/Berlin, Photo: Julija Stankeviciene

ART-PRESENTATION:Big Orchestra

Sound is an essential part of contemporary art. Yet musical instruments, which are simultaneously sculptures, represent a recent development in contemporary art …

Jim Hodges, B.E.2, Silver and Gold, 2011. Japanese Silver, 24K Gold, Silver on primed and unprimed linen 59 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. On loan from Pizzuti Collection

ART-PRESENTATION:Jim Hodges

Jim Hodges is among a generation of artists who came of age in the 1980s and 90s amidst a deepening AIDS epidemic …

Ellen Gallagher, Ecstatic Draught of Fishes, 2019, Oil, ink, gold leaf, and paper on canvas, 248 × 201.9 cm, © Ellen Gallagher. Photo: Thomas Lannes, © Ellen Gallagher, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART-PRESENTATION: Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher’s work explores issues of race, identity and transformation, referencing historical and contemporary subjects that include modernist abstraction, marine biology and …

Left: Irene Williams, Blocks and Strips Quilt, 2003, The Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection 2017-229-11, © Estate of Irene Williams/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Right: Mary Lee Bendolph, Work-Clothes Quilt, 2002, , The Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection 2017-229-11, © Estate of Mary Lee Bendolph/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ART-PRESENTATION: Souls Grown Deep

The exhibition “Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art includes paintings, sculptures, and quilts …

Ella Littwitz, The Unknown Land of the South, 2017, Courtesy: the artist; Harlan Levey Projects-Brussels, Copperfield Gallery-London, Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Gunnar Meie

ART-PRESENTATION:Ella Littwitz-The Promise

In her comprehensive artistic research, Ella Littwitz concerns herself with archaeology, history, botany, culture and politics. The critical examination of national and …

Nancy Spero, P.E.A.C.E., Helicopter, Mother + Children, 1968, Gouache and ink on paper, 48 x 61 cm, Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., © The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2019, Photo: Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.

ART-PRESENTATION: Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero is one of the most significant figures in post-war American art. She engages in a complex way with existential aspects …

The Magnetic Fields, Installation view Galleria Gió Marconi-Milan, 2019, Photo: Filippo Armellin, Courtesy: Galleria Gió Marconi

ART-PRESENTATION:The Magnetic Fields

In 1919 André Breton and Paul Soupault conducted one of the first legendary automatic writing experiments: for whole days and sleepless nights …