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Gilbert & George, BEARD CODE, 2016, Mixed media, 254 x 452 cm, © Gilbert & George, Courtesy the artists and Lehmann Maupin New York/Hong Kong

ART CITIES:N.York-Gilbert & George

Gilbert & George (Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore), have long since been acknowledged icons of Contemporary Art. In 1967 they met as students at St Martin’s School of Art in London. By 1969 they were reacting against approaches to sculpture then dominant at St Martin’s, which they regarded as elitist …

Claes Oldenburg, Shelf Life Number 6, 2016-17, © 2017 Claes Oldenburg. Photo: Kerry Ryan McFate, Courtesy Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Claes Oldenburg

Working in collaboration since 1976, husband and wife artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen redefined the nature of outdoor sculpture in …

Keith Haring, Untitled (velum), 1986, Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, © Keith Haring Foundation

ART-PRESENTATION: Keith Haring

Keith Haring was an artist and social activist responding to New York City’s street culture of the ‘80s. His work is about …

ART NEWS:Oct.02

The group exhibition “L’OFFRE” features works that engage with the complex concept of “gift” and its attendant links with notions of exchange, …

Yoko Ono, War Is Over if you want it", 1969, Poster, ©Yoko Ono. Right: Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Montreal Bed-In, 1969, Photo: Ivor Sharp, ©Yoko Ono

ART-PREVIEW:Yoko Ono-Transmission

In the ’60s, Yoko Ono became increasingly involved in conceptual art, especially in performance, as an occasional member of Fluxus, she rejected …

Left: Doug Ashford, Next Day Page A21, 2015 -16, archival inkjet print on Epson Hot Press Bright paper, image: 22 x 13 1/4 inches; sheet: 37 x 23 inches, overall: framed 37 1/2 x 23 inches, Courtesy the artist and Wilfried Lentz-Rotterdam. Right: Doug Ashford, Next Day Page A24, 2015 -16, archival inkjet print on Epson Hot Press Bright paper, image: 22 x 13 1/4 inches; sheet: 37 x 23 inches, overall: framed 37 1/2 x 23 inches, Courtesy the artist and Wilfried Lentz-Rotterdam

ART CITIES:Cleveland-A Poet*hical Wager

Timed with the 5th anniversary of MOCA Cleveland’s, the exhibition “A Poet*hical Wager” explores the ethical dimension of works that use abstraction, …

Harun Farocki / Antje Ehmann, Feasting or Flying (Video Still), (2008), © Harun Farocki / Antje Ehmann 2008, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki is one of the most important and influential filmmakers, an ethnographer of capitalist living environments, which he dissected and analyzed. …

Cheryl Donegan

ART CITIES:Zurich-Cheryl Donegan

Cheryl Donegan’s work integrates the time-based, gestural forms of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing and installation. Direct, irreverent, …

Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance) Storyboard, 2013, courtesy David Zwirner-New York/London

ART CITIES:Madrid-Marcel Dzama

The work of Marcel Dzama is characterised by an immediately recognisable visual language that stems from a wide spectrum of references and …

Andres Serrano, Octopus Head (Early Works), 1985, © Andres Serrano, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Bruxelles

ART CITIES:Paris-Andres Serrano

Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work. Since the …

ART NEWS:Oct.01

“60 Years of Performance Art in Switzerland” explores performative art, taking as its starting point the ;60s, when pioneering performance artist Jean …

Yannis Vassalos, Urban (8), Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Athens-Yannis Vassalos

Vanitas was a fairly niche art movement that began in the early 17th Century, later spreading across greater Northern Europe and seeping …

Brice Marden's studio, Tivoli, NY, June 2017, Photo: Eric Piasecki

ART-PRESENTATION: Brice Marden

Brice Marden has had a profound impact on painting today. While there has been a sea change in Art Movements, Marden has …

Gino De Dominicis, Senza Titolo (Detail), 1986, Tempera and chalk on panel, 129 x 105 cm, © Estate of the artist / Archivio Gino De Dominicis-Foligno Italy, DACS 2017

ART CITIES:London-Gino De Dominicis

Gino De Dominicis worked in a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, film, and installation. He was obsessed with immortality and invisibility, …