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ART CITIES:London-Beth Letain

Coming from a background in science, Beth Letain’s approach to painting is driven by an ‘imperative. The artist earned a BA from …

Michel Majerus, Exhibition view Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2018, © Michel Majerus Estate, Photo: Jens Ziehe, Courtesy neugerriemschneider-Berlin and Matthew Marks Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Michel Majerus

Michel Majerus’s visual language freely samples from art history and popular culture, redeploying canonized styles and genres alongside graphics borrowed from youth …

ART NEWS:June 04

What at first appeared to be no more than an unspectacular artists’ book by Michael Oppitz and Lothar Baumgarten, published in 1974 …

Viewers interacting with Franz West, Passstücke (mit Video mit Verwendungstips), 1996, during the exhibition Franz West at David Zwirner-New York, 2014, © 2018 Archive Franz West

ART CITIES:N.York-This Is Not a Prop

In the early 1970s Franz West began making small-scale assemblages incorporating found materials such as cardboard, bandages, and wire, which he then …

Raphaela Vogel, Installation view, Ultranackt, view on Kopfschuss, 2018, Kunsthalle-Basel 2018, Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel, Courtesy of the artist; BQ-Berlin and Galerie Gregor Staiger-Zurich

ART CITIES:Basel-Raphaela Vogel

Raphaela Vogel’s work is located in the meeting of sculpture, video installation and performance and is characterized by an acute study of …

John Hogan, Iris Side Table, 2018, Blown Glass, 25 x 25 x 14, Courtesy of: The Future Perfect

DESIGN:Design Miami/Basel 2018

Each edition of Design Miami brings together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators and critics from around the world in celebration …

Martha Diamond, Cityscapes

ART CITIES:N.York-Martha Diamond

Born and educated in New York, Martha Diamond has developed an unmistakable personal language from the forms and sensations of the city. …

Walter Swennen, Ceux qui sont ici, sont d’ici, 2013, Oil, acrylic on canvas, 136 x 150 cm, © Walter Swennen/Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann, Herzogenrath, 2018,

ART CITIES:Vienna-Class Reunion

Gabriele and Wilhelm Schürmann started collecting art in the mid1980s. Concentrating on context oriented positions informed by Institutional Critique and political art, …

Jason Martin, As Yet Untitled (Ultramarine blue), 2015, Mixed media on aluminium, 127 x 98 x 15 cm, © Jason Martin, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Jason Martin

Many painters across history have focused their attention on the sculptural potential of painting, but that hasn’t stopped Jason Martin experimenting in …

Asger Jorn, Jeux nocturne (recto) (Night Games), 1940, Oil on canvas, 105 x 171 cm, Canica Art Collection / SMK Copenhagen © VG Bild Kunst

ART CITIES:Hamburg-Asger Jorn

For Asger Jorn, who was aligned with the CoBrA Movement and later the Situationist International, art was an expression of life, of …

The De La Warr Pavilion

ART NEWS:June 03

The exhibition “Don’t you dare to call it work” by Maria Toboła comprises a pseudo-readymade, a video simulating the works of other …

Ai Weiwei, Colored House, 2015, Wood, industrial paint, glass, 1025 × 620 × 765 cm, © Image courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio

ART-PRESENTATION:Ai Weiwei-Fan Tan

Drawing his inspiration from Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. Ai Weiwei’s Works are able to challenge our societies with such force through …