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The art that transforms the world is at the center of an exhibition at the national museum for art of the 21st century in Rome, or MAXXI. The title of the exhibition “Transformers” is a reference to the Japanese toy robots able to transform into different figures, an ironic allusion …
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese Contemporary artist and activist. He collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant …
The Dusseldorf-based photographer Andreas Gursky is considered one of the most important contemporary artists. With an objective and precise eye, he captures …
Rain Room is an interactive instillation created by the Hannes Koch, Stuart Wood and Florian Ortkrass as Random international. The instillation transforms …
In recent decades, the body has moved from being the subject of traditional portraiture to become an active presence in live and …
The act of drawing has always been central in the work of Giuseppe Penone, both as a means of developing new ideas …
The first Istanbul Biennial took place in 1989, and since then 200 galleries have been founded in the city. Istanbul Modern Museum …
A colorful patchwork field of multicolored blades of grass, “Color Field,” Lou’s largest sculpture to date, is on view at the Neuberger …
Founded by Will Ramsay the Affordable Art Fair was organized as an alternative to the traditional Gallery scene, first launched in Battersea …
Paris Photo is the premier international art fair for works in the photographic medium, held annually since 1997 in the Grand Palais. …
In the early 1960s Donald Judd abandoned painting, having recognized that “actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on …
Paris Photo is the premier international art fair for works in the photographic medium, held annually since 1997 in the Grand Palais. …
Due to the limited flat area and thousands of people who want to live there, land is very precious in the big …
The series of works “Gazing Ball” takes its name from the mirrored spherical ornaments frequently found on lawns, gardens, and patios around …
The first artwork from the Dakis Joannou Collection that I saw, at the School of Fine Arts 1996 (a few days before …
Female photographers and their work have been overlooked and undervalued for many decades, especially during photography’s early years. For this exhibition, Musée …
The exhibition “A Good Home for Everyone” challenges the image and idea of the good home and the modern Sweden that Prime …
If Baselitz is known for one thing, it is for his decision in 1969 to flip his paintings upside down, so that …
Gianni Piacentino began constructing angular, metallic sculptures in the 1960s. Although his works bear a visual affinity to minimalist art, the sculptures …
Bridget Riley is well-known since the mid-1960s for her distinctive, optically vibrant paintings, called “Op Art”. She characterised her work to the …
Katie Grinnan’s works investigate the relationship between visual and cognitive experience. “Nocturnal Hologram” features three recent large-scale sculptural installations that explore the …
Christian Boltanski is known for a body of work that may be considered a disturbing archive of our social, cultural, ethnic, and …
Jan Fabre lives and works in his native city, Antwerp. He is known for his powerful figurative or abstract drawings executed in …
Ed Ruscha refuses to be typecast as either pop or conceptual. He is recording the shifting emblems of American life in the …
