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Neil Jenney, Modern Africa #1, 2015–16 Oil on canvas, in painted wood artist’s frame, 67 × 97 × 3 ¼ inches (170.2 × 246.4 × 8.3 cm), © Neil Jenney, Photo: Rob McKeever, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:N.York-Neil Jenney

Neil Jenney is committed to exploring, and ultimately transcending, realism as both style and philosophy, a project first sparked by the preponderance of Pop-themed Photorealism in late-1960s New York. Having designated his early work “Bad Painting” (a term coined by Marcia Tucker, director of the New Museum, New York, in …

Claudia Passeri, Campetto, 2019, Courtesy Common Wealth, © Roberto Apa

PRESENTATION: Freigeister

The exhibition “Freigeister Fragments of an art scene in Luxembourg and Beyond” is developed to mark the 15th anniversary of the museum. …

Wifredo Lam, Les Oiseaux Voilés, 1945, oil on canvas, 43-5/8" × 49-1/2" (110.8 cm × 125.7 cm), © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

ART CITIES:N.York-Wifredo Lam

Born in Cuba to a Chinese father and Congolese-Iberian mother, Wifredo Lam is widely considered one of the greatest artists of the …

Paul Mignard, Version, 2021, Pigments on free-standing canvas Diameter : 200 cm, © Paul Mignard, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Jérôme Poggi

ART CITIES:Paris-Paul Mignard

Paul Mignard’s syncretic paintings revisit the landscape genre from the depths of psyche and time. He is an explorer of the expanded …

Mary Corse, Untitled (White Multiband, Horizontal Strokes), 2021, glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas, 78" × 102" (198.1 cm × 259.1 cm), © Mary Corse, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Mary Corse

Mary Corse investigates materiality, abstraction, and perception through the subtly gestural and precisely geometric paintings that she has made over her fifty-year …

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.237, Hanging Six-Lobed, Interlocking Continuous Form), c. 1958, Private Collection, © 2021 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy David Zwirner

ART CITIES:N.York-Ruth Asawa

Born in rural California in 1926, Ruth Asawa is best known for her looped-wire sculptures, which challenge conventional notions of material and …

Installation view, Picture a Vacuum!, Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Kunsthalle Basel, 2021, view on Franziska Baumgartner, Tidal, 2021. Photo: Moritz Schermbach

ART CITIES:Basel-Picture a Vacuum!

Titled “Picture a Vacuum!” the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt Annual Exhibition 2021 reflects on the many different strategies that artists adopt to record or …

Sebastião Salgado, Anavilhanas, isole boscose del Río Negro. Stato di Amazonas, Brasile, 2009, © Sebastião Salgado/Contrasto

PHOTO:Sebastião Salgado-Amazônia

Sebastião Salgado is one of the most widely-respected of contemporary documentary photographer. His in-depth bodies of work document the lives of people …