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Walid Raad Les Louvres and/or Kicking the Dead, 2018 Still from presentation, ONASSIS, Athens 2018 Photo: Elina Giounanli © Walid Raad

ART CITIES:Stockholm-Walid Raad

In photographs, videotapes, sculptures, texts and mixed media installations Walid Raad explores how violence affects bodies, minds, culture and traditions. Playfully, he creates artworks that are at once dizzying, imaginative and illuminating. Walid Raad’s artworks concentrate on the Lebanese wars as well as the Middle East’s rapidly burgeoning art world. …

ART NEWS:Feb.02

Among the first women to earn an MA in Painting from UC Berkeley in 1949 was Sonya Rapoport. The exhibition “Biorhythm” focuses …

Olafur Eliasson, Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009, Fluorescent lights, color filter foil (red, green, blue), aluminum, steel, ballasts, haze machine, Dimensions variable, Installation view: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2020, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, © 2009 Olafur Eliasson

ART CITIES:Bilbao-Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson uses his works, which encompass painting, photography, sculpture and large installations, to inquire into the relationships between the real and …

Lois Patiño fotograma de Strata of the Image

ART FAIRS:Art Madrid 2020

Art Madrid, the most important contemporary art fair in the Spanish capital, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year with an edition that …

Steve McQueen, Ashes 2002-2015, Video still, © Steve McQueen. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery

ART-PREVIEW:Steve McQueen

Born in London, England in 1969, Steve McQueen is an artist, film director, and screenwriter currently based in London and Amsterdam. His …

Jim Dine, Two Shovels, 1962, Oil, two shovels and metal hooks on canvas, 122 x 213 x 23,5 cm, Private Collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

ART-PRESENTATION:Jim Dine

One of the most consistently innovative artists to have emerged in the second half of the 20th Century, Jim Dine was a …

Akinbode Akinbiyi, Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2006, From the series Sea Never Dry, Photograph, © Akinbode Akinbiyi, Courtesy: the artist and Gropius Bau

ART CITIES:Berlin-Akinbode Akinbiy

Walking the streets of Bamako, Berlin, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos, or other megacities, Akinbode Akinbiy studies social structures, uncovers the hidden, …

ART NEWS:Feb.01

For her site-specific work “Perspectives” (2020) Esther Adam draws linguistic and graphic analyses on the wide glass front of the GAK project …

Yuan Jai, Flirting, 2001, Ink and colour on silk, 84 x 222 cm, Private collection, Image Courtesy of the artist

ART CITIES:Paris-Yuan Jai

Borrowing style, patterns and materials (ink and mineral pigments on silk) from classical Chinese painting Yuan Jai transfers and incorporates them in …