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Keith Haring was an artist and social activist responding to New York City’s street culture of the ‘80s. His work is about birth, death, sex and war. Keith Haring was openly gay at a time when most non-heterosexuals kept their sexual proclivities behind closed doors. Part of Haring’s importance as …
The group exhibition “L’OFFRE” features works that engage with the complex concept of “gift” and its attendant links with notions of exchange, …
In the ’60s, Yoko Ono became increasingly involved in conceptual art, especially in performance, as an occasional member of Fluxus, she rejected …
Timed with the 5th anniversary of MOCA Cleveland’s, the exhibition “A Poet*hical Wager” explores the ethical dimension of works that use abstraction, …
October is dedicated to Paris as we have two great Art Fairs that officially mark the beginning of the visual year, the …
Harun Farocki is one of the most important and influential filmmakers, an ethnographer of capitalist living environments, which he dissected and analyzed. …
Idris Khan transforms the conceptual art of appropriation into an elegant and substantial meditation on the act of creativity. Appropriating icons of …
Cheryl Donegan’s work integrates the time-based, gestural forms of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing and installation. Direct, irreverent, …
Alex Dordoy’s practice concerns the tension between physical forms and their representation as flat images. He is interested in the interplay between …
The work of Marcel Dzama is characterised by an immediately recognisable visual language that stems from a wide spectrum of references and …
The City of Ottawa invites artists and artist teams to submit qualifications for consideration to design, fabricate and install a permanent site-specific …
Unlike an art book, catalog or monograph that tend to showcase artworks created in another medium, the term “artists’ books” refers to …
Lee Miller was discovered by Condé Montrose Nast, as he stopped her walking in front of a car in Manhattan at age …
To exhibit Japanese architecture is to offer a broader perspective that clearly shows the diversity of this scene and the defining place …
The “The Photographic I–Other Pictures” is an is the first part of a diptych exhibition in spread over two years and is …
Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work. Since the …
Artist often work in multiple mediums and Louise Bourgeois found a creative outlet in printmaking. This little-known but highly significant aspect of …
Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) is dedicated to cultural exchanges between Europe and the Arab countries, while Maison Européenne de la Photographie …
Sherrie Levine along with artists such as Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince, questions how images are culturally constructed and the effects of …
“60 Years of Performance Art in Switzerland” explores performative art, taking as its starting point the ;60s, when pioneering performance artist Jean …
Vanitas was a fairly niche art movement that began in the early 17th Century, later spreading across greater Northern Europe and seeping …
Brice Marden has had a profound impact on painting today. While there has been a sea change in Art Movements, Marden has …
Gino De Dominicis worked in a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, film, and installation. He was obsessed with immortality and invisibility, …
From the early ‘90s, Jake and Dinos Chapman have continued to provoke. Whether subverting artists’ original works (including their own) twisting historic …
