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Dorothea Tanning explored the disciplines of painting, sculpture, printmaking, collage, design, soft sculpture, installation and writing throughout her career. As a young artist, Tanning drew inspiration from Gothic and Romantic literature and Surrealism, creating fantastical and dream-like realms to investigate the human form and condition. As her work imagery and …
Edgar Sarin caught the eye of the public and art professionals right from the start thanks to his “Lifetime Concessions”, sealed artworks …
El Anatsui transforms simple, everyday materials into striking large-scale installations. His work raises questions about ethnic identity by combining traditional African techniques …
Renowned for his paintings, drawings, and prints, as well as his innovative architectural constructions, Shusaku Arakawa was one of the earliest practitioners …
Renato Garza Cervera’s body of work reflects on contemporary culture, politics, and social and environmental issues. Working with a variety of mediums …
Three 50,000 USD prizes to be awarded to immigrant writers in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry The Vilcek Foundation is now accepting applications …
Lodged between Op Art and Minimalism, Rana Begum’s works draw their inspiration from repetitive geometric patterns found within Islamic art and urban …
Less known than William Eggleston or Stephen Shore, the Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri has worked, at the same time as they, to …
Stephen Antonakos was a pioneer in introducing neon into the realm of art, giving it new perceptual and formal meanings. Around 1960, …
One of the most important figures in contemporary art, Matthew Barney became known to a wide public through his cycle of five …
The practice of Jim Shaw spans a wide range of artistic media and visual imagery. Since the 1970s, Shaw has mined the …
From the late 1970s onwards, Ricardo Brey’s practice, which spans drawing, sculpture, and installation, has focused on his research into the origins …
For the first time since the opening of Collezione Maramotti in October 2007, ten rooms on the second floor of the permanent …
Julius Shulman’s images of midcentury Southern Californian architecture captured not only the distinctive structural, functional, and design elements of a building but …
Critical studies Fellowships are offered to highly motivated, exceptional critical writers or curators who have completed their undergraduate or graduate training and …
The evolution of Conceptual Art overlapped with the end of the gold standard in the USA in 1971, and since then, the …
Renato Garza Cervera’s body of work reflects on contemporary culture, politics, and social and environmental issues. Working with a variety of mediums …
Amar Kanwar’s work focuses on such issues as nationalism, politics, justice, power, violence and sexual abuse in the Indian subcontinent. His installations …
The group exhibition “Hyper! A Journey Into Art and Music” offer a wide range of experiences with over 300 works, including paintings, …
Helen Dowling works through a multi-disciplinary practice which engages with the capacity to transfer empathy and emotion within the medium of video. …
Christiane Löhr’s. work is quintessentially ecological and eco-sustainable, for it uses strictly natural, and thus fully biodegradable, materials which are gathered according …
Zao Wou-Ki (who adopted the name Zao after 1947) is among the most recognized Chinese artists in the world. Born in Beijing, …
Amar Kanwar’s work focuses on such issues as nationalism, politics, justice, power, violence and sexual abuse in the Indian subcontinent. His installations …
The retrospective “Inhabiting Time” presents the work of artist-philosopher, Lee Ufan, charting his creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoretical terrain that …
