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ART NEWS:Feb.03

The exhibition “Birds of a Feather” is a curatorial response to our thoughts and emotions surrounding recent political events with a group exhibition revolving around a symbol of peace, hope and freedom.  As the proverb goes: birds of a feather, flock together. This idiom perhaps was never more appropriately used …

Winter Harvest, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Winter Harvest

Four young artists for whom music, subculture and performances are important sources of inspiration participate in the exhibition “Winter Harvest” at Dhondt-Dhaenens …

Mohammed Ehsai, Mohabbat (Kindness), 2006, Oil and silver leaf on canvas, © Mohammed Ehsai, Courtesy Mohammed Afkhami Foundation

ART CITIES:Toronto-Contemporary Persians

The exhibition “Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians” at AGA KHAN Museum in Toronto, showcases the many identities of today’s Iranians. The …

Francesco Candeloro, Linee Siamesi, 2016, Plexiglass acetate and paper, Courtesy Marignana Arte Gallery

ART CITIES:Venice-The Hidden Dimension

Throughout his career the American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher Edward T. Hall , introduced a number of new concepts, including proxemics, polychronic …

Amy Feldman, Public Lick, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 200.7 x 304.8 cm, Blain|Southern Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Amy Feldman

Amy Feldman is an abstract painter known for her loosely geometric figures set against areas of bare canvas. The same geometric figures …

De Wain Valentine, Concave Circle Blue (Detail), 1968-2016, Cast polyester resin, 60,3 x 60,3 x 23,5 cm, Photo: Melissa Castro Duarte, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Plastic Show

Light and Space denotes a loosely-affiliated Art Movement related to op art, minimalism and geometric abstraction originating in Southern California in the …

ART NEWS:Feb.02

Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West’s essay “Life on Sirius: The Situationist International and the Exhibition After Art” is the third volume in …

Philippe Parreno, Quasi Objects: Marquee (cluster). Disklavier Piano. My Room is a Fish Bowl (Detail), 2014, 56 neon, 20 transformers, 32 light bulbs, 8 sound transducers, sound amplifiers, microphones, computer, disklavier piano, set of fish balloons, Photo: © Andrea Rossetti, Installation views in Esther Schipper Gallery-Berlin, Collection Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Acquisition in 2015

ART CITIES:Porto-Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno is a French Avant-Garde artist who came to prominence in the ‘90s, he works across film, video, sound, sculpture, performance …