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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Plenty Should be Enough)- Korean version, Installation view, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, 2019, Photo: Heeseung Chung, courtesy Amorepacific Museum of Art

ART-PRESENTATION: Barbara Kruger-Forever

Since the late 1970s, Barbara Kruger has established herself as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. Beginning with her earliest works, for which she combined language with mass media imagery culled from books and magazines, she has turned a critical eye toward consumerism, desire, political will, and …

Max Colby, Hotbed I, 2018, Crystal and plastic beads, sequins, found fabric, trim, costume jewelry, polyester batting, and thread, 14 x 14 x 17 inches, © Max Colby, Courtesy the artist and Jane Lombard Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York:A Body of Work

The group exhibition “A Body of Work” features drawing, collage, and sculpture by six artists: Julia Brandão, Max Colby, Margaux Crump, Anneli …

Zack Seckler, Outward, 2015, Archival pigment print, Signed and numbered verso, © Zack Seckler, Courtesy the artist and ClampArt

PHOTO: Zack Seckler-Above,Part II

Far surpassing common aerial photography, in his mission to capture stunning aerial views of land, sea, and wildlife, Zack Seckler takes to …

Ria Pacquée, The sun is moving, the clock ticking, the earth sinking, 2019, © Ria Pacquée, Photo: Ans Brys, Courtesy the artist and Middelheim Museum

ART-PRESENTATION:Ria Pacquée

Ria Pacquée has been researching the concept of “identity” since the 1970s. She does this using her own body as a tool: …

Banu Cennetoğlu, Installation view, 2019, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfahlen, 2019, Photo: Achim Kukulies, © Kunstsammlung NRW

ART-PRESENTATION: Banu Cennetoğlu

Banu Cennetoğlu deals with the political, social, and media conditions of contemporary information societies. Her conceptual works question the relationship between the …

Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Embedment) [detail], 2018, Canvas-embedded, pigmented hydrocal in enamel-finished aluminum frame, 146.1 x 55.2 x 5.1 cm, © Anthony Pearson, Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery

ART CITIES:Aspen-Anthony Pearson

Anthony Pearson occupies a quietly antithetical position in a contemporary cultural landscape characterized by visual noise and short attention spans. An exploration …

Sheila Hicks , Zihzabal, 2018, Pigments, synthetic fibers, cotton, linen, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Fund, Photo: Markus Wörgötter, © Sheila Hicks

ART-PRESENTATION: Sheila Hicks

Since the late 1950s, Sheila Hicks has been producing work exceptionally difficult to categorise. Knotting, wrapping, folding, twisting and stacking wool, linen …

Left & Right: André Butzer, Untitled, 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 274 x 213 cm, © André Butzer, Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures

ART-PRESENTATION: André Butzer

André Butzer’s work is characterized by an intensive exploration of the limits and possibilities of the medium painting, while the artist develops …

Paolo Scheggi, Maquette for the ‘Plastic Interchamber’, 1966, Sheets of curved, punched wood painted yellow, 52.5 × 86 × 66 cm, Franca and Cosima Scheggi Collection-Milan

ART CITIES:London-Paolo Scheggi

Born in Florence in 1940, died very young in Rome in 1971, within a “long” decade (1958-1971) the research of Paolo Scheggi …

Takis, Magnetic Wall 9 (Red), 1961, Acrylic paint on canvas, magnets, metal, cloth, nylon thread, 180 × 220 × 10 cm, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre de création industrielle-Paris, © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019, Photo: Georges Meguerditchian

ART-TRIBUTE:Takis

Over a 70-year career, Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis) has created some of the most innovative art of the 20th Century. A sculptor of …

Askhat Akmediayarov, If the Pain Burned Down, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Astana Art Show

ART-PRESENTATION: Racing The Galaxy

“Racing The Galaxy” is the title of the very first international exhibition in Kazakhstan, bringing together around 20 artists from 15 countries, …

Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana, presented as part of the Young Architects Program 2019 at MoMA PS1, Photo: © Rafael Gamo

MIRAGES LIV

Over the years July is evolving in on the most dynamic months of the year in the field of contemporary art, not …

© Shara Hughes

ART ISLANDS:Antiparos Shara-Hughes

Shara Hughes makes paintings that are decidedly contemporary, and yet the artificial landscapes that she conjures evoke comparisons to a multitude of …

Shirin Neshat, Rapture Series (Women with Writing on Hands), 1999, Chromogenic color print, 40 ½ x 60 ¼ inches, Edition of 5 + 2AP. New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum purchase, 2001.292, © Shirin Neshat, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme de Noirmon-Paris

ART-PRESENTATION: Bodies of Knowledge

The exhibition “Bodies of Knowledge” brings together ten international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in archiving and …

Zack Seckler, Eastern Cape Bull, 2016, Archival pigment print, Signed and numbered verso, 53.3 x 80 inches (Edition of 3), 40 x 60 inches (Edition of 5), 26.7 x 40 inches (Edition of 10), © Zack Seckler, Courtesy the artist and ClampArt

PHOTO:Zack Seckler-Above,Part I

Far surpassing common aerial photography, in his mission to capture stunning aerial views of land, sea, and wildlife, Zack Seckler takes to …