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Ed Ruscha, Double Americanisms, exhibition view Secession 2018, Photo: Sophie Thun, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian

ART-PRESENTATION:Ed Ruscha-Double Americanisms

In more than sixty years, Ed Ruscha has built an oeuvre encompassing conceptual photographs, paintings, drawings, artist’s books, prints, and films that chronicle the development of the American West and of Los Angeles in particular in a singular artistic idiom. Widely acclaimed as a sober-minded and dispassionate witness and historian, …

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 …

Spencer Sweeney, Self-Portrait, 2018, oil and oil stick on linen, 167.6 x 109.7 cm, © Spencer Sweeney, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Spencer Sweeney

Often referred to as a Downtown Renaissance man, Spencer Sweeney’s ever-shifting and versatile practice moves across genres and styles within visual art, …

ART NEWS:Nov.02

The exhibition “Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis” situates the works of ten visionary artists between historical and contemporary systems of thinking, which …