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Mona Hatoum, Map (clear), 2015, Clear glass marbles, Approx. 1000 cm x 1800 cm, Installation view, Centre Pompidou-Paris, © the artist, Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, photo: Florian Kleinefenn

PRESENTATION: Mona Hatoum-Map (clear)

Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political work incorporates installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. Hatoum started her career in the 1980s making visceral video and performance work that focused intensely on the body. Since the early 1990s, however, she has increasingly created large-scale installations that aim to engage the …

ART NEWS: May 03

Highlighting cultures and languages that have a close affinity with the landscapes of Scotland, “A Fragile Correspondence” explores alternative perspectives and new …

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens, 2021, © Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner

PREVIEW: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Drawing on art historical, political and personal references, Njideka Akunyili Crosby creates densely layered figurative compositions that, precise in style, nonetheless conjure …

Hernan Bas, Conceptual artist #17 (With the aid of scissors, paper doilies and origami he elevates lily ponds to attract potential princes), 2023, Acrylic on linen, 84 x 72 x 1.5 inches, 213.4 x 182.9 x 3.81 cm, Photo by Silvia Ros, © Hernan Bas, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London

ART CITIES: N.York-Hernan Bas

Hernan Bas is often compared to American painters like Elizabeth Peyton and Karen Kilimnik. Yet while this older generation has depicted pop …

Samara Scott, Discordia (detail), 2023, © Samara Scott, Courtesy the artist and Kunstmuseum Den Haag

PRESENTATION: Samara Scott-Discordia

Samara Scott’s works are neither image nor objects, neither figurative nor abstract. They are recognizable things arranged in an unfamiliar order floating …

ART NEWS:May 02

“Reframed Positions” is the first multi-venue retrospective by Terre Thaemlitz in Europe. It comprises a survey exhibition, talk, multimedia performance, and a …

Left: Kiki Smith, Evening Star, 2023, © Kiki Smith, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery Right: Kiki Smith, Sungrazer VII, 2019, Bronze, 279.4 x 121.9 x 121.9 cm, © Kiki Smith, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES: Seoul-Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith is recognized for her multidisciplinary practice through which she explores embodiment and the natural world. The body, mortality, regeneration, gender …

Erwin Wurm, Dream (2023). Aluminum cast. 100 x 49 x 70 cm, © Erwin Wurm, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London

PRESENTATION: Erwin Wurm-Dream

Erwin Wurm came to prominence with his “One Minute Sculptures”, a project that he began in 1996/1997. In these works, Wurm gives …

Cecilia Vicuña, Caracol Azul (Blue Snail), 2017, Unspun wool, site-specific installation, 30.25 x 201.75 x 40.5 inches (installed) 76.8 x 512.4 x 102.9 cm, overall dimensions variable, © Cecilia Vicuña, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery

ART CITIES: London-Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña integrates practices of poetry, performance, Conceptualism, and textile craft in response to pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological …

Jim Dine, Three Ships (the Magi), 2022, Bronze, 284 × 267 × 234 cm, 112 × 105 × 92 in., Exhibition view at the Blue Mountain foundry, Baker City, Oregon, © Jim Dine, Courtesy the artist and Gallery Templon

PRESENTATION: Jim Dine-Three Ships

Pioneer of the happening and associated with the Pop Art movement, Jim Dine has always followed a unique path. He experiments extensively …

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1992–93/2020, Set of twenty woodcuts in cadmium red, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, cobalt blue, permanent green, viridian green, black, and alizarin crimson on handmade Korean paper, 23 5/8 × 31 1/2 inches (60 × 80 cm), Edition of 25, 2 Proofs, 5 AP, 5 PP, 4 Publisher’s Proofs, © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo: Martin Wong, Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES: N.York-Donald Judd

Donald Judd’s sculptures and installations helped pioneer mid-20th-century Minimalism. His wall-mounted “stacks,” shelf-like structures, and freestanding multicolored works were made from commercial …

Yayoi Kusama, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers (detail), © Yayoi Kusama, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Yayoi Kusama

One of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Yayoi Kusama occupies a unique position within recent art history. …