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Yves Klein realizing an Anthropométrie in his studio, 14, rue Campagne-Première-Paris, 1960, © Yves Klein, ADAGP-Paris, DACS-London, 2016, Photo: by Harry Shunk and Janos Kender © J.Paul Getty Trust.,The Getty Research Institute-Los Angeles

ART-PRESENTATION: Alberto Giacometti & Yves Klein

At the Gagosian in Grosvenor Hill, London, works by Alberto Giacometti and Yves Klein are shown together for the first time. In an ambitious and immersive installation, Giacometti’s nervously modelled figures and heads are confronted by Klein’s intense and expansive colors. Each artist is generously represented by works on loan …

Ralf Baecker, Order+Noise (Interface I), NOME Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Ralf Baecker

The work of Ralf Baecker is focused towards installations and machines which explore the poetic and artistic potential of technology. With a …

Stan Douglas, The Secret Agent (Film Still), 2015, © Stan Douglas, Courtesy the Artist, David Zwirner-New York/London

ART CITIES:N.York-Stan Douglas

Since the late ‘80s, Stan Douglas has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often …

Choi Jeong Hwa, Alchemy - Culture Station Seoul 284, 2014, Photo: Choi Jeong Hwa, © Choi Jeong Hwa / Park Ryu Sook Gallery, curtesy Museum of Fine Arts-Boston

ART-PRESENTATION: Megacities Asia

Asia is the world’s most rapidly urbanizing continent, containing more than half of the approximately 30 megacities around the globe. Beijing, Shanghai, …

Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Return of the Broken Screens (series), 2015, courtesy 22,48 m2, Paris

ART FAIRS:Art Brussels 2016

The Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair opens its 34th  edition relocated from Brussels Expo to the more conveniently Tour & Taxis building, …

Sigmar Polke, Die Trennung des Mondes von den einzelnen Planeten, 2015 / Zirkusfiguren, 2005, Pinault Collection, Installation view at Palazzo Grassi, 2016, Photo: Matteo De Fina, © The Estate of Sigmar Polke by SIAE 2016

ART CITIES:Venice-Sigmar Polke

For the 1986 Venice Biennale Sigmar Polke conceived an extraordinary installation for the German Pavilion generically entitled “Athanor”. Alchemy and politics were …

Thomas Ruff, press++20.33, 2015, © Thomas Ruff, courtesy David Zwirner Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Thomas Ruff-press++

Thomas Ruff has fundamentally changed our relationship to the photographic image, moving it beyond reactionary ideas of documentation and supposed “truth” towards …

ART NEWS:Apr.02

A newly commissioned painting of monumental scale “Empireland” grapples with Ireland’s history as a state. With images, icons, symbols and figures relating …

Adriana Varejão, Kindred Spirits, 2015, courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Adriana Varejão

Adriana Varejão has developed a rigorous practice that is informed by cultural and historical research. Each series is based on intense investigation …

Kader Attia, Chaos + Repair = Universe, 2014, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016, Courtesy Kader Attia and Galeria Continua, Photo: MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst / Axel Schneider, Museum für Moderne Kunst Archive

ART CITIES:Frankfurt -Kader Attia

Kader Attia has been considered one of the most influential artists of his generation. He spent his childhood between France and Algeria, …

R. Crumb, Untitled, 2002, Pages from Art & Beauty Magazine, Number 2-2003, courtesy David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES:London-R.Crumb

Robert Crumb is universally acknowledged as the Godfather of underground comics, and is widely held up in some quarters as a counterculture …

Roy DeCarava, Lonely Women, 1960, courtesy Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art

PHOTO:Roy DeCarava -New York 19

Roy DeCarava began his career as a painter and turned to photography in the mid ‘40s to gather information for his canvases.  …