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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 postmodern art. Like 19th Century pleinairism Bjerger charts the personal echoes cast about by realistic images. Her work burrows into the tricky psychological loam that accumulates beneath photographs. …

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 …