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Salvatore Emblema’s work was strongly influenced by his environment. Born in the Terzingo on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, where he spent most of his life, He attended the Art School and the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. From an early age he devoted himself to painting inspired by …
Over the course of his long career, Picasso devoted himself to sculpture using both traditional and unconventional materials and techniques. Unlike painting, …
Steve McQueen is an English filmmaker and video artist known for his criticall -acclaimed feature films “Hunger” and the Oscar-winning “12 Years …
Daido Moriyama is one of Japan’s leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post WWII Japan, his black …
Throughout his career Jeff Wall has consistently sought new ways of picture making, expanding the possibilities of the photographic medium. Beginning with …
For Juliendes Des Monstiers, each painting constitutes a whole, the different styles of which can be understood in their entirety that ultimately …
Cy Twombly with his close friends Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, ranks among the leading exponents of a generation of artists who …
Swiss artist Milo Moire has unveiled a new Performance in Cologne, possibly her most serious to date. She staged a naked protest …
James Welling has been questioning the norms of representation since the ‘70s. His work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind the artist that since he sculpted a self-portrait out of his own frozen blood, …
Izumi’s Kato paintings and sculptures feature ‘primitive’ looking creatures that resemble babies or spirits locked up in bodies with imprecise forms, stripped …
Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school founded in 1933 on the principles of balancing academics, arts, and manual labor within …
Sharon Lockhart is both a filmmaker and a photographer and she moves seamlessly between the two. Her work frames the quiet moments …
The first solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi, in N. York will be on show at the Blum & Poe …
Tina Modotti (Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti, 16/8/1896-6/1/42) was a photographer, actress and political activist. Her career as a photographer only spanned about …
El Anatsui (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Venice Biennale 2015) emerged from the post-independence art movements of ‘60s and ’70s West …
Times Square’s Midnight Moment is an art initiative by Times Square Arts in which all of the billboards in Times Square synchronize …
The book “30,000 Years of Art” is an accessible, chronological introduction to art history from 28,000 BC to the present day, is …
The Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is well known for her dazzling approach to geometric abstraction, primarily in the mirror reliefs and …
Sheila Hicks is a pioneering artist noted for objects and public commissions whose structures are built of color and fiber. Trained as …
The work of Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, who have worked collaboratively since 2001 from the “InMemory” exhibition at …
Seth Siegelaub was an art dealer, independent art exhibition organizer, author and researcher. He is best known for his innovative promotion of …
Since its inception in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art has continually redefined the idea of the museum in contemporary Western culture. …
Grayson Perry is mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry’s vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting …
