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Titus Kaphar, Shifting the Gaze, 2017. Oil on canvas, 210.8 × 262.3 cm, Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs Jr., Fund, 2017.34, © Titus Kaphar, Photo: Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION:Titus Kaphar

Titus Kaphar is a painter and a sculptor. His work explores and wrestles with our long history of slavery and racism. He often borrows from the historical canon, and then alters the work in some way. Using techniques like cutting, crumpling, shredding, erasing and more, Kaphar creates art that nods …

Liu Jianhua, Square No. 37, 2014, Porcelain, steel, 4 x 74 x 148 cm, © Liu Jianhua, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION:Liu Jianhua

Liu Jianhua is one of China’s rising stars in the contemporary art scene, who experiments with comprehensive materials. After graduating from college …

Rebecca Belmore, blood on the snow, 2002, Fabric dye, cotton, feathers, chair, 107 x 610 x 610 cm, The Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern, purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Mendel Art Gallery Foundation, 2004, © Rebecca Belmore, Photo: Howard Ursuliak/Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Rebecca Belmore

The Canadian artist Rebecca Belmore started working as a performance artist in the late 1980s. The immediacy and presence of that discipline …

Alex Katz, Red Dancer 8, 2018, Oil on linen, 91,4 x 274,3 cm, Photo: Paul Takeuchi, © Alex Katz / Adagp, Paris

ART CITIES:Paris-Alex Katz

Although Alex Katz belongs to the Pop generation of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, it was not until the 1970s …

Mehraneh Atashi, Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict, 2018, Grazer Kunstverien, Graz

ART-PREVIEW:City Prince/sses

The exhibition “City Prince/sses” at Palais de Tokyo is presented as an imaginary, multiple and complex city, without borders, messy, staggering and …

Maria Lai, Untitled, 1991, Thread, cloth, tempera, 17 x 19 x 2,5 cm, M77 Gallery-Milano, Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri, Courtesy M77 Gallery e Archivio Maria Lai, © Archivio Maria Lai by SIAE 2019

ART CITIES:Rome-Maria Lai

Maria Lai is without doubt one of the leading figures in the history of contemporary Italian art. Not only on account of …

Carsten Nicolai, bausatz noto ∞ (color version), 1998/2015, Record player, color vinyl records with locked grooves, mixing board, amplifier, loudspeaker/ headphones, Dimension variable, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART-Leipzig/Berlin, Photo: Julija Stankeviciene

ART-PRESENTATION:Big Orchestra

Sound is an essential part of contemporary art. Yet musical instruments, which are simultaneously sculptures, represent a recent development in contemporary art …

Left: Sally Mann, Ponder Heart, 2009, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art-Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, © Sally Mann. Right: Sally Mann, Bean’s Bottom, 1991, Silver dye bleach print, Private Collection, © Sally Mann

Photo:Sally Mann-A Thousand Crossings

For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has been taking hauntingly beautiful, experimental photographs that explore the essential themes of existence: memory, …

Jeff Wall, An Eviction, 1988/2004, Transparency in lightbox, 229 × 414 cm, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Athens-Jeff Wall

As a major art figure in recent decades, Jeff Wall has developed a body of work that has profoundly changed the way …

Christian Boltanski, Prendre la parole 2005, Woodboards, coats, lamps and sound boxes / Collection of the artist. © Christian Boltanski / ADAGP, Paris, 2019, © MACs_Grand Hornu-Belgique, Photo : Philippe De Gobert

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski is a leading figure in contemporary art, considered as France’s most influential living artist. Since 1967, he has developed an …

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, The Recovered Manifesto of Wissam [inaudible], 2017, Artificial orange trees, mini cassettes, stone speakers, printed sheets, and 3-channel audio installation Dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley

ART FAIRS:Art Basel 2019 Parcours

Founded in 1970 by gallerists (Ernst Beyeler, Trudi Bruckner and Balz Hilt) from Basel, Art Basel today stages the world’s premier art …

Cabins, Taschen Publications

BOOK:Cabins,Taschen Publications

Ever since Henry David Thoreau described his refuge existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, in “Walden” or “Life in the Woods” (1854), the …

Shahpour Pouyan, After examining the logbook, the doctors assume they are dealing with the plague, Exhibition view, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 2019, , Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES:Paris-Shahpour Pouyan

Shahpour Pouyan’s work is a commentary about power, domination and possession through the force of culture. His interest lies in singling out …