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Joyce Wieland, O Canada, 1970, Lithograph, 70.5 x 60 cm, © Joyce Wieland, Courtesy of Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University Permanent Art Collection

ART CITIES:N.York-Kiss Off

Found in a cave near Bethlehem and now in the collection of the British Museum, the sculpture known as “Ain Sahkri Lovers” (c. 10,000 BC) was made at the dawn of the age of agriculture and is the oldest known depiction of sexual love. Though the couple have no faces, …

View of the exhibition “Стансы / Stances”, kamel mennour (6 rue du Pont de Lodi), Paris, 2018, © Marie Bovo, Photo: archives kamel mennour, Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour Paris/London

ART CITIES:Paris-Marie Bovo

For 15 years, Marie Bovo has been photographing views of natural and urban landscapes. She records a specific motif at intervals, making …

Left: Martial Raysse, NOW, 2017, acryl on canvas, 209 x 175.5 cm, Lévy Gorvy Gallery Archive. Right: Martial Raysse, Portrait de Gabriella la jolie vènetienne, 1963, mixed media on canvas, 88 x 62 x 9.5 cm, Lévy Gorvy Gallery Archive

ART-PREVIEW:Martial Raysse-Visages

Martial Raysse is a well known French artist, famous for his distinctive approach in painting and his recognizable imagery. Raysse began to …

Cally Spooner, DRAG DRAG SOLO (video still), 2016, single channel projection without sound daylight, daylight bulbs, double-sided room-dividing screen (11'20''), Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève Archive

ART CITIES:Geneva-Cally Spooner

Cally Spooner has developed a distinctive body of work consisting of media installations, essays, novels and live performances such as radio broadcasts, …

ART NEWS:Feb.02

The retrospective “Mediations” is devoted to the American photographer Susan Meiselas and brings together a selection of works from the 1970s to …

View of Isa Genzken’s studio, 2018, Courtesy David Zwirner-New York/London/Hong Kong and Galerie Buchholz-Berlin/Cologne/New York, Photo: Jens Ziehe, © VG Bildkunst-Bonn 2018

ART CITIES:N.York-Isa Genzken

With a career spanning over 40 years, Isa Genzken has incessantly probed the shifting boundaries between art, design, architecture, media, technology, and …

Broomberg & Chanarin, Divine Violence, Psalms (Detail), 2013, Set of 57 Frames Containing 724 Sheets, Inkjet Proof for Text and Image Elements, © Broomberg & Chanarin, Adagp 2018, © Centre Pompidou / Dist. RMN-GP

ART CITIES:Paris-Broomberg & Chanarin

Tackling politics, religion, war and history, Broomberg & Chanarin prise open the fault lines associated with such imagery, creating new responses and …

Brassaï, View through the pont Royal toward the pont Solférino, c. 1933, 40.1 x 51 cm, [Nuit 53], Estate Brassaï Succession-Paris, © Estate Brassaï Succession-Paris

PHOTO:Brassaï

One of the most renowned photographers of the interwar period, Brassaï’s reputation rests on contributions to both commercial and Avant-Garde photography. His …

Katinka Bock, Orangerie (weiss) [Detail], 2014, Ceramics, Courtesy the artist and Meyer Riegger

ART CITIES:Malmö-Odradek,Part II

In his short story, “The Cares of a Family Man” (1919), Franz Kafka introduces Odradek as a deliberately undefined protagonist. It is …

Josh Sperling, View of the exhibition “Chasing Rainbow”, Perrotin-Paris, 10/1-24/2/018, © Claire Dorn / Courtesy Perrotin

ART CITIES:Paris-Josh Sperling

JoshSperling’s works on canvas waves between wall sculptures and paintings. Building layered plywood structures by hand, the artist stretches canvas over these …