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Anna Bjerger, Luminous/Night, 2018, Oil on aluminium, 85x100 cm, © Anna Bjerger, Courtesy the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

ART CITIES:Stockholm-Anna Bjerger

Anna Bjerger’s paintings, which hide aluminium panels, get down a type of 21st Century photo-based impressionism that pushes far beyond the usual …

Left: Bettina Rheims, Close up of Karolina Kurkova, the most beautiful girl in town, Décembre 2001, Paris, 2001, From the series “Pourquoi m’as tu abandonnée?” Color Photograph, 156 x 126 cm, Framed: 164 x 134 x 4 cm, Edition 5 + 2 EA, © Bettina Rheims, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery. Right: Bettina Rheims, Portrait de Daria au vison blanc II, Septembre 2006, Paris, 2006, From the series “Pourquoi m’as tu abandonnée?” Color Photograph, Framed: 164 x 134 cm Edition 5 + 2 EA, © Bettina Rheims, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery

PHOTO:Bettina Rheims

After having already enjoyed careers as a model, journalist and gallerist, Bettina Rheims began to explore photography at the age of 26, …

Left: Blair Thurman, Double Pumpkin, 2015, Painting - Acrylic on canvas, wood, 149.9 x 66 x 12.1 cm, © Blair Thurman, Courtesy the artist and Peres projects. Right: Blair Thurman, Cheetos & Thanatos, 2017, Painting - Acrylic on canvas on wood, 236.2 x 114.3 x 10.2 cm, © Blair Thurman, Courtesy the artist and Peres projects

ART CITIES:Berlin-Blair Thurman

Blair Thurman’s influences range from Pop art and Minimalism to relics from childhood, popular music, and 1970s cinema. His standardized forms, pulled …

Polly Penrose, Royal Blue, 2015, © Polly Penrose, Courtesy the artist and Benrubi Gallery

PHOTO:Polly Penrose

Polly Penrose studied graphic design at Camberwell College of Arts in London. She went on to work in fashion styling, and subsequently …

ART NEWS:Nov.03

Jwan Yosef’s work, while minimal in execution, is loaded with political and autobiographical signifiers. Having emigrated with his family from Syria to …

Sally Mann, Deep South, untitled (Fallen Tree), 1998, Tea-toned gelatin silver print, 101.6 x 127 cm, © Sally Mann, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery

PHOTO:Sally Mann-A Selection

Sally Mann’s rich and varied career as a photographer has seen her focus on architecture, landscape and still life, but she is …

Reginald Van de Velde

PHOTO:Civilization-The Way We Live Now

Our contemporary civilization is an extremely complex collective enterprise. Never before in human history have so many people been so interconnected, and …