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Marcel Broodthaers worked as a writer, poet, filmmaker, photographer, journalist and visual artist. As Broodthaers himself said, he would rather have put off the choice of profession until his death. Language as a symbol that conveys meaning is a central theme in his texts, objects, installations, films, photographs, slide projections …
Salvatore Emblema’s work was strongly influenced by his environment. Born in the Terzingo on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, where he spent …
Over the course of his long career, Picasso devoted himself to sculpture using both traditional and unconventional materials and techniques. Unlike painting, …
Steve McQueen is an English filmmaker and video artist known for his criticall -acclaimed feature films “Hunger” and the Oscar-winning “12 Years …
Daido Moriyama is one of Japan’s leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post WWII Japan, his black …
Throughout his career Jeff Wall has consistently sought new ways of picture making, expanding the possibilities of the photographic medium. Beginning with …
For Juliendes Des Monstiers, each painting constitutes a whole, the different styles of which can be understood in their entirety that ultimately …
Cy Twombly with his close friends Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, ranks among the leading exponents of a generation of artists who …
Swiss artist Milo Moire has unveiled a new Performance in Cologne, possibly her most serious to date. She staged a naked protest …
James Welling has been questioning the norms of representation since the ‘70s. His work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind the artist that since he sculpted a self-portrait out of his own frozen blood, …
Izumi’s Kato paintings and sculptures feature ‘primitive’ looking creatures that resemble babies or spirits locked up in bodies with imprecise forms, stripped …
Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school founded in 1933 on the principles of balancing academics, arts, and manual labor within …
Sharon Lockhart is both a filmmaker and a photographer and she moves seamlessly between the two. Her work frames the quiet moments …
The first solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi, in N. York will be on show at the Blum & Poe …
Tina Modotti (Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti, 16/8/1896-6/1/42) was a photographer, actress and political activist. Her career as a photographer only spanned about …
El Anatsui (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Venice Biennale 2015) emerged from the post-independence art movements of ‘60s and ’70s West …
Times Square’s Midnight Moment is an art initiative by Times Square Arts in which all of the billboards in Times Square synchronize …
The book “30,000 Years of Art” is an accessible, chronological introduction to art history from 28,000 BC to the present day, is …
The Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is well known for her dazzling approach to geometric abstraction, primarily in the mirror reliefs and …
Sheila Hicks is a pioneering artist noted for objects and public commissions whose structures are built of color and fiber. Trained as …
The work of Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, who have worked collaboratively since 2001 from the “InMemory” exhibition at …
Seth Siegelaub was an art dealer, independent art exhibition organizer, author and researcher. He is best known for his innovative promotion of …
Since its inception in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art has continually redefined the idea of the museum in contemporary Western culture. …
