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The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is one of the first public museums for contemporary art to be established in Europe, opened in 1936, the museum is one of the first public museums for contemporary art to be established in Europe. The museum has an experimental approach towards art’s role in …
Annemarie Heinrich was a photographer or more accurately a portraiture artist. Specializing in glamorous portraits as well as magnificent chiaroscuro nudes, Heinrich’s …
William Kentridge is the child of Jewish liberal lawyers who defended victims of apartheid in South Africa, and moral and complex political …
Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, from solo gallery performances to large-scale, site-specific works. Many of her works are …
Marcel Broodthaers worked as a writer, poet, filmmaker, photographer, journalist and visual artist. As Broodthaers himself said, he would rather have put …
Salvatore Emblema’s work was strongly influenced by his environment. Born in the Terzingo on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, where he spent …
Over the course of his long career, Picasso devoted himself to sculpture using both traditional and unconventional materials and techniques. Unlike painting, …
Steve McQueen is an English filmmaker and video artist known for his criticall -acclaimed feature films “Hunger” and the Oscar-winning “12 Years …
Daido Moriyama is one of Japan’s leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post WWII Japan, his black …
Throughout his career Jeff Wall has consistently sought new ways of picture making, expanding the possibilities of the photographic medium. Beginning with …
For Juliendes Des Monstiers, each painting constitutes a whole, the different styles of which can be understood in their entirety that ultimately …
Cy Twombly with his close friends Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, ranks among the leading exponents of a generation of artists who …
Swiss artist Milo Moire has unveiled a new Performance in Cologne, possibly her most serious to date. She staged a naked protest …
James Welling has been questioning the norms of representation since the ‘70s. His work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind the artist that since he sculpted a self-portrait out of his own frozen blood, …
Izumi’s Kato paintings and sculptures feature ‘primitive’ looking creatures that resemble babies or spirits locked up in bodies with imprecise forms, stripped …
Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school founded in 1933 on the principles of balancing academics, arts, and manual labor within …
Sharon Lockhart is both a filmmaker and a photographer and she moves seamlessly between the two. Her work frames the quiet moments …
The first solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi, in N. York will be on show at the Blum & Poe …
Tina Modotti (Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti, 16/8/1896-6/1/42) was a photographer, actress and political activist. Her career as a photographer only spanned about …
El Anatsui (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Venice Biennale 2015) emerged from the post-independence art movements of ‘60s and ’70s West …
Times Square’s Midnight Moment is an art initiative by Times Square Arts in which all of the billboards in Times Square synchronize …
The book “30,000 Years of Art” is an accessible, chronological introduction to art history from 28,000 BC to the present day, is …
The Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is well known for her dazzling approach to geometric abstraction, primarily in the mirror reliefs and …
