Currently browsing category

ART CITIES, Page 75

Caption: Anish Kapoor, Descension, 2014, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, 2017, Photo: James Ewing, Public Art Fund, © Anish Kapoor 2017

ART CITIES:N.York- Anish Kapoor

For more than 35 years, Kapoor has been among the most inventive and influential artists of his generation. He has created compelling …

Damien Hirst, The Severed Head of Medusa, Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates, © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2017, Palazzo Grassi Archive

ART CITIES:Venice-Damien Hirst, Part I

Damien Hirst’s wide-ranging practice includes installation, sculpture, painting and drawing. Consistently challenging the boundaries between art, science and religion, his visceral, visually …

ART CITIES:Beijing-teamLab

teamLab is an interdisciplinary group whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, design, and the natural world. Since …

Jorinde Voigt, 'Song of the Earth'. © Jorinde Voigt; Courtesy Lisson Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Jorinde Voigt

Jorinde Voigt’s highly delicate works on paper, despite their large format, invite the beholder to step up and take a closer look. …

Xu Zhen

ART CITIES:Paris-Xu Zhen

Xu Zhen is a conceptual artist whose work often takes the form of provocative sculptures, installations and interventions that confront sociopolitical taboos …

Drew Shiflett, Untitled #72 (Detail), 2015, Watercolor, graphite, fabric, handmade paper, 49 x 61.5 x 7 inches, Photo: Jeffrey Scott French, Lesley Heller Workspace

ART CITIES:N.York- Drew Shiflett

The drawings and sculptures of Drew Shiflett are sensuous and tactile, yet capable of transcending their own physicality to embrace both pathos …

Anish Kapoor, White Dark VIII, 2000 – © Courtesy of the artist, Palazzo Fortuny Archive

ART CITIES:Venice-Palazzo Fortuny

Coinciding with the 2017 Venice Biennale, the Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia present the exhibition …

Susan Hiller, Installation View, Lisson Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York- Susan Hiller

Susan Hiller is an influential pioneer of Multimedia Installation Art recognized for her early adoption of video as an artistic medium and …

Shirin Neshat, Roja (Video Still), 2016

ART CITIES:Venice-Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat’s powerful photographs and video installations illuminate the gender and cultural conflicts of her native Iran. From her first series of …

Chris Ofili, Poolside Magic 8, 2012, Charcoal, watercolour and pastel on paper. © Chris Ofili, Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery

ART CITIES:Venice- Chris Ofili

Since the mid-90s, Chris Ofili has become well known for his vibrant, technically complex, and meticulously executed paintings and works on paper. …

Mounir Fatmi, Calligraphy of Fire 03, 2015. Pigment print on paper, 35 x 52 cm, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Dubai-Mounir Fatmi

Mounir Fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games that aim to free the viewer from their preconceptions of politics and religion, and …

Mario Schifano, Paesaggio TV, 1970, Smalto e aniline su tela emulsionata e Perspex, Private Collection, Courtesy Fondazione Marconi, Milano

ART CITIES:Milan-Francesco Vezzoli

Over the last decade, in a series of works that have explored the undisputed power of contemporary media culture, Francesco Vezzoli by …

Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum IX (Detail), 2014, Acrylic on canvas, twelve joined panels, 274 x 244 cm, © Ellsworth Kelly, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly, is one of America’s great 20th Century Abstract artists, who in the years after WWII shaped a distinctive style of …

ART CITIES:N.York-Ed Ruscha

In 1956, Ed Ruscha moved to Los Angeles, where he attended Chouinard Art Institute, from which he graduated in 1960. Ruscha’s early …

Dara Birnbaum, Psalm 29(30), (Exhibition View), 2016, 6-Channer Video & sound installation, color, 8 min. looped, Edition of 3, Marian Goodman Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Dara Birnbaum

Inspired by her architectural background, Dara Birnbaum holds an enduring interest in the ways in which people live. During the late 1970s, …