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Architectural model of the Beirut Museum of Art, Photo: BeMA

INTERVIEW: Hala Wardé

HW architecture, led by Lebanese/French architect Hala Wardé, has been chosen as the winners of an international competition to design the new Beirut Museum of Art (BeMA) in Lebanon. The new museum will be located in the heart of Beirut and features a “central campanile tower” that will rise nearly …

BOOK:Sarah Sze, Phaidon Publications

The book “Sarah Sze” form Phaidon Publications with essays by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Okwui Enwezor andLaura Hoptman is the first significant …

Thomas Ruff, Substrat 31 III, 2007, © Thomas Ruff / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2016, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa Archive

PHOTO:Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff has fundamentally changed our relationship to the photographic image, moving it beyond reactionary ideas of documentation and supposed “truth” towards …

ART NEWS:Dec.02

“Donald Judd Writings”, the most comprehensive collection of writings by Donald Judd, is now available. Co-published by Judd Foundation and David Zwirner …

Left: Anthony Caro, Alpine, 2012, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery Archive. Right: Anthony Caro, Autumn Rhapsody, 2011-2012, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Anthony Caro

Considered to be one of the greatest sculptors of the last 50 years, Anthony Caro took the norms and even the definitions …

BXL Universel, Exhibition View, © Philippe De Gobert, CENTRALE for contemporary art Archive

ART CITIES:Brussels- BXL Universel

Brussels is being advertised as a new European capital for Contemporary Art, with two International Art Fairs, solid Public and Private Institutions, …

Katarzyna Kobro, spatial composition (9), 1933, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz Collection

ART-PRESENTATION: Moved Bodies

Katarzyna Kobro was a Polish sculptor, under the influence of Constructivism she rejected individualism, subjectivism and expressionism, and instead postulated the absolute …

Lawrence Weiner, WHEREWITHAL | WAS ES BRAUCHT (Detail view 3rd floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz), 2016, Photo: Markus Tretter, Courtesy of Lawrence Weiner, © Lawrence Weiner, ARS-New York , Bildrecht-Wien and Kunsthaus Bregenz

ART-PRESENTATION: Lawrence Weiner

From 1968 onwards, Lawrence Weiner has presented his work using language and, as such, the artist is historically regarded as one of …

Dylan Haskins, THIS AREA IS A SOCIAL SPACE, 2007-2010, Oisín Byrne, Utopians and and and Visionaries, 2015, Dylan Coburn Gray, Living Memory, 2016, Barbara Knezevic, Temporary gathering in a display setting, 2016, Project Arts Centre Archive

ART CITIES:Dublin-The Wild

Celebrating its 50 years, Project Arts Centre a pioneer of alternative ideas, bold ambition and artistic freedom in Irish culture, from October …

Doug Aitken, Installation view “Electric Earth”, 10/9/16-15/1/17 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, Phot: Joshua White

BOOK:Doug Aitken, Prestel Publishing

For more than 20 years, Doug Aitken has shifted the perception and location of images and narratives. His multichannel video installations, sculptures, …

Candida Höfer Nach Berlin

PHOTO:Candida Höfer-Nach Berlin

For the presentation of her work Candida Höfer not only uses traditional photography in various sizes adjusted to the demands of composition, …

Renate Bertlmann, Bru(s)tkasten, 1984, © Renate Bertlmann, Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Renate Bertlmann

Since the early ‘70s the feminist Avant-Garde artist Renate Bertlmann, has explored issues around the representation of sexuality and eroticism within a …