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NEW NATURE, Highly artificial and sterile environments are employed to create the ideal organic specimen. Today’s glass houses contain all the essential ingredients of life but none of the redundancies: sun, soil, and water are emulated, optimized, and finally automated, Photo: Pieternel van Velden, Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

STATEMENT:Architecture & Environment

While a few years ago none was concerned with the environment and the implications of the irrational use of natural resources, today almost every Great Museum or institution is organising: exhibitions, events, workshops on the subject, which is not only important but burning!!! The most interesting however is not the …

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MIRAGES LIX

This month begins with two new and promising Media Partnerships with International Art Fairs in Spain: Art Madrid 2020 and JUSTMAD 2020 …

Teresa Margolles, Super Speed / El Paso, Texas, 2020, Pigmented inkjet print, Box of 24 cartridges purchased from Walmart, Gateway Blvd, El Paso, TX, Unframed: 66 x 90 cm, Framed67.9 x 92.1 x 3.5 cm, © Teresa Margolles, Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Teresa Margolles

Teresa Margolles examines the social causes and consequences of death, destruction and civil war. For Margolles, the morgue accurately reflects society, particularly …

ART NEWS:Jan.03

Tom Pnini has constructed the interactive installation “Two Figures in a Field”, comprised of two main elements “The Set” and “The Vinyl …

Cindy Sherman, Untitled # 93, 1981, Chromogenic color proof, 61 x 121.9 cm, Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway, Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

PHOTO:The Cindy Sherman Effect

The exhibition “The Cindy Sherman Effect. Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art”, addresses one of the key issues in art: the preoccupation …

Marina Faust, IN RARE CASES (detail), 2019, Pigment print on silk tissue paper, 109 x 84 cm, © Marina Faust, Courtesy Xippas

ART CITIES:Geneva-Marina Faust

Marina Faust’s oeuvre is anchored in self-portraits, which she has been doing since the start of her career. She places herself in …

Doug Wheeler, Eindhoven Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Installation (Environmental Light), 1969. Installation view, The Panza Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2008–2009

ART CITIES:N.York-Doug Wheeler

In the 1960s and ’70s, light became a primary medium for a loosely-affiliated group of artists working in Los Angeles. Whether by …

Amar Kanwar, Such a Morning (Video Still), 2017, Digital video, color, sound; 85 min., Single channel, looped, Ed. Of 6, © Amar Kanwar, Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

STATEMENT:Such A Morning

Are the times we are going through difficult? On the other hand, when they easy? Is it because we went through a …

Left: Wright Morris, “Gano” Grain Elevator, Kinsley, Kansas, 1940, © Estate of Wright Morris Right: Wright Morris, The Home Place, Norfolk, Nebraska_, 1947, © Estate of Wright Morris

PHOTO:Wright Morris-The Home Place

Wright Morris was a renowned writer and affective photographer. Pairing photographs with his own writing, Morris pioneered a new tradition of “photo-texts” …

Robert Irwin, Kilts (detail), 2018, Shadow + Reflection + Color, 182.9 cm × 262.3 cm × 10.8 cm, © Robert Irwin, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin has explored perception as the fundamental issue of art for over six decades. Irwin, who began his career as a …

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ART NEWS:Jan.02

Kang Hee Kim in “Dreamer” presents a series of photographs that collage street scenes from New York with landscapes and details from …

Candomblé-Ritual at Ilê Obá Sileké, 2019, Courtesy: Ilê Obá Sileké & Forum Brasil e. V., Photo: Nico Beradi

PERFORMANCE:Rituals of Care

The Gropius Bau hosts a series of performances as it begins its 2020 program: an ongoing exploration of themes with particular contemporary …