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Minimalism can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of some other thing. We usually think of art as representing an aspect of the real world (a landscape, a person, or even a tin of soup!); or reflecting …
Polly Penrose studied graphic design at Camberwell College of Arts in London. She went on to work in fashion styling, and subsequently …
Jwan Yosef’s work, while minimal in execution, is loaded with political and autobiographical signifiers. Having emigrated with his family from Syria to …
Anna-Eva Bergman is regarded as one of the best Norwegian painters of the 20th Century, she was long overshadowed by her husband, …
Sally Mann’s rich and varied career as a photographer has seen her focus on architecture, landscape and still life, but she is …
By 1830, the price for a Navajo Chief’s Blanket was either 100 buffalo hides, 20 horses, 10 rifles, or 5 ounces of …
The Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti is head of the Gregotti Associati studio. His studio has designed several important buildings, such as the …
Zoe Leonard was born in Liberty, New York, in 1961. At age sixteen, she dropped out of high school and began to …
Sundays are special for Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong. It is their weekly statutory rest day. Many spend it congregated in …
The University of California-San Diego Department of Visual Arts was founded in 1967 and is one of the country’s leading centers for …
Paris Photo is the world’s largest Art Fair of photography, and is held annually since 1997 in the Grand Palais, Paris. The …
Brutalist Architecture flourished from 1951 to 1975, having descended from the Modernist Architectural movement of the early 20th Century. Brutalism became popular …
The second edition of the Norman Foster Foundation Robotics Atelier will take place on 12-16 November 2018, with the support of the …
Our contemporary civilization is an extremely complex collective enterprise. Never before in human history have so many people been so interconnected, and …
A preeminent artist of the 20th Century, Alberto Giacometti investigated the human figure for more than forty years. Giacometti was born in …
Do Ho Suh is known worldwide for his almost weightless transparent spaces made of fabric, accurate and full-size renditions of the homes …
Often referred to as a Downtown Renaissance man, Spencer Sweeney’s ever-shifting and versatile practice moves across genres and styles within visual art, …
Mandy El-Sayegh’s research-based practice stems from an interrogation of the part-to-whole relation in the fields of science and philosophy. Working across painting, …
Since he graduated from the Regional School of Art in Rennes in 2010, Jean-Marie Appriou has created a substantial body of work …
Paris Photo is the world’s largest Art Fair of photography, and is held annually since 1997 in the Grand Palais, Paris. The …
The exhibition “Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis” situates the works of ten visionary artists between historical and contemporary systems of thinking, which …
Inextricably entwining the experience of the ordinary with the sublime, Friedrich Kunath’s work explores interior sensation, recontextualization and abstraction, and oppositional relationships …
At a time when according to the UN, greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at their highest levels in history, with …
Laurie Anderson is an Avant-Garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially …
