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ART CITIES:London-Sigmar Polke

  Sigmar Polke was one of the most insatiably experimental artists of the 20th century, who continuity experimented with various art mediums. This retrospective at the Tate Modern in London, is the first to bring together the unusually broad range of media he worked with during his five-decade career. By …

ART CITIES:Geneva-Chromophobia

Chromophobia manifests itself in the many and varied attempts to purge color from culture, to devalue color, to diminish its significance, to …

ART CITIES:Cambridge-Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko painted the Harvard Murals in 1962 and officially installed them in January 1964 in a penthouse dining room of Harvard …

ART CITIES:Basel-Joseph Beuys

“Doing the right thing in the right place and at the right time. That is art.”-Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys is one of …

ART CITIES:London-Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler has studied and written about various methods of facial recognition, ways to circumvent such means of detection, as well as …

ART CITIES:London-Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze is known for her large-scale installations that penetrate walls, suspend from ceilings, burrow into the ground, and stretch across museums. …

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Tomoko Shioyasu

 “Cosmic Perspective”, is the title of the exchibition by Tomoko Shioyasu. Outlining images from close observation in natural matters such as water, …

ART-REVIEW:Oplostasio/Texnis

One of the important representatives of the generation of ’70s, Dimitris Alitheinos, over a year, suggests at the Oplostasio/Texnis, (a small space …

ART CITIES:London-Richard Serra

As a child Serra would often visit Californian shipyards, and later funded his college studies by working in steel mills. Perhaps this …

ART CITIES:London-Morgan Fisher

“My father taught me photography in 1955, when I was twelve years old. I made my first movies (they were conventional home …

ART CITIES:Doha-Shirin Neshat

    Mythology, history, social events and the political situation in her country (Iran) is the source of inspiration for the work …

ART CITIES:N.York-Juan Muñoz

“I sometimes feel that some of my work is about waiting, waiting for something to happen, on the one hand afraid in …

ART NEWS:January

Alexandros Maganiotis in the “alphabet games”, exhibits 24 compositions with words (one for each letter of the Greek alphabet) and their images, …

ART CITIES:Zürich-Thomas Müllenbach

Thomas Müllenbach turns our everyday perception of familiar things on its head, and subverts the collective understanding of the sense, purpose and …

ART CITIES:Ν.York-Robert Gober

Robert Gober rose to prominence in the mid-80s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. …