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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. Her painterly style, in equal measure energetic and rigorous, sharply observed and freely lyrical, mirrors the dualities of delirious New York itself with its soaring, exuberant skyscrapers and …

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 …

John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015 (still). Three-channel HD video installation, 7.1 sound, color; 48:30 min, © Smoking Dogs Films, Courtesy Lisson Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah has been committed to giving a voice and a presence to the legacy of the African diaspora in Europe, filling …

Installation view: Batia Suter - Radial Grammar. LE BAL-Paris, 2018, Courtesy LE BAL and Martin Argyroglo

ART CITIES:Paris-Batia Suter

The exhibition that are on presentation at LE BAL are characterized with the vitality and truth of our era. As an artist …

Nora-Turato, LambdaLambdaLambda, Photo: Daniel Spehr, Courtesy LISTE Art Fair Basel

PERFORMANCE:LISTE Art Fair 2018

The 14th Performance Project of LISTE Art Fair 2018 featured a series of seven solo and group performances by artists interested in …

ART NEWS:June 02

Michel François transforms seemingly uncomplicated objects and materials, or traces of past events, into deeply resonant carriers of meaning. His sculptures can …

Alberto Burri, Rosso Plastica, 1963, Tornabuoni Art, Other Materials, Plastic, acrylic, vinavil and combustion on canvas

ART FAIRS:Art Basel 2018,Part II

The first Art Basel, was held in Basel, Switzerland in 1970 and the concept of the Founders, Ernst Beyeler, Trudi Bruckner and …