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Sonia Kacem, Bermuda Triangle, 2015, Exhibition View Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Photo: Gunnar Meier, Courtesy Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève

ART CITIES:Geneva -Sonia Kacem

The work of the Swiss-Tunisian artist Sonia Kacem is driven by the deeply intuitive and sensual relationship she has with her chosen …

Cindy Sherman, Exhibition View, Metro Pictures Gallery Archive

PHOTO:Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is a contemporary master of socially critical photography. She is a key figure of the “Pictures Generation”. At first painting …

ART NEWS:May 03

Following the scientific examination and conservation carried out in 2015 on Jackson Pollock’s “Alchemy” (1947), the conservation department of the Peggy Guggenheim …

Books & Rivers, Exhibition View, Gagosian Gallery Archive

BOOK:Books & Rivers

From the Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2100 BC) to the present day, rivers have called artists to create work meditating on their …

Martin Munkácsi

PHOTO:Martin Munkácsi

In 1933, photographer Martin Munkácsi (18/5-1896-13/7/1963), made history and changed the world of photography forever when he took the first spontaneous fashion …

Vanessa Alessi, W-HOLE TEMPELHOF, Berlin 2014, Courtesy Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

ART CITIES:Turin-Passo Dopo Passo

The exhibition “Passo Dopo Passo” seeks to examine diverse historical and contemporary artworks and artistic practices that reflect on the status of …

Daniel Buren, L'Observatoire de la lumière, 2016, Fondation Louis Vuitton Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Daniel Buren

Since the ‘60s Buren’s critical analysis of painting , attempting to refine the act to an elemental form , led him to …

Lee Krasner, Untitled (detail), 1949, Robert Miller Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Lee Krasner

The work of Lee Krasner was overshadowed by her husband, Jackson Pollock.  While Pollock’s rugged persona and large-scale, wildly painted works would …

Im Heung-soon, Factory Complex (Videostill), 2014, © Im Heung-soon, Courtesy Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art

ART-PRESENTATION: Women at Work

Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality, second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide …

Il Monumento Continuo (Piazza Navona), 1970, Superstudio Archive

ARCHITECTURE: Superstudio 50

Superstudio was an architecture firm, founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, later joined by …

Jeronimo Voss, Inverted Night Sky

ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Jeronimo Voss

Jeronimo Voss’ exhibition “Inverted Night Sky” is inspired by charcoal drawings of the Milky Way found in the Anton Pannekoek Institute for …

Liza Lou, detail, 2016, © Liza Lou, Photo: Dean Elliot, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:Salzburg -Liza Lou

With an emphasis on repetition, formal perfection and materiality, Liza Lou’s sculptures and environments thrive on the tension between the apparent impossibility …

Jordan Wolfson, Colored sculpture, 2016, Installation View, Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ-London and David Zwirner-New York

ART CITIES:N.York-Jordan Wolfson

Jordan Wolfson’s practice in the past 12 years has included video, film, installation, performance, print photography. Since 2009 he has focused on …