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Sarah Sze employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living plants, creating encyclopedic and accumulative landscapes that penetrate walls and stretch across museums. Her work often takes on architectures, transforming space through radical shifts of scale or colonizing …
Born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949, Richard Deacon has emerged as one of Britain’s most celebrated sculptors. From an early stage in …
The Iranian artist Shahpour Pouyan belongs to the generation that came of age after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent Iran-Iraq …
Bill Viola, in one of the pioneering figures of a generation of artists in the ‘70s employing video art and sound technologies. …
Selma Gürbüz presents her solo exhibition “Karnavalesk” that includes never before seen three-dimensional work, painting, work on paper, and kinetic sculpture. Gürbüz’s …
The French conceptual artist Bernar Venet rose to prominence in the late ‘60s through the art scene in New York. He moved …
“The Art of Love in the Time of Geishas: Forbidden Japanese Masterpieces” is part of the Pinacothèque de Paris exhibitions dedicated to …
The exhibition “Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth” at Graham Foundation examines the recent proliferation of …
Appropriation took on new significance in mid-20th Century America and Britain with the rise of consumerism and the proliferation of popular images …
The exhibition “Diane Arbus: In The Beginning” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), considers the first seven years of …
For nearly a decade, Sophia Al Mariahas been finding ways to describe 21st Century life in the Gulf Arab nations through art, …
The problem facing all picture-makers is, however, the same: how to compress three-dimensional people, things and places onto a flat surface? In …
Darren Almond works in a variety of media. His diverse subjects deal with abstract ideas of time, space, history and memory and …
The impact of Mimmo Rotella as one of the pioneering artists of the 20th Century is evidently present throughout contemporary landscapes of …
The architects Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden originally designed the building in the Renaissance style to house an arts and crafts museum. …
In her native Canada Liz Magor is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary sculptors, the oeuvre she has built since …
When the exhibition “Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors” (27/4-12/6/66) opened at the Jewish Museum in New York Curated by Kynaston …
In 1958, Ben (Benjamin Vautier) created his shop at 32 rue Tondutti de l’Escarène in Nice. Close to the ideas of Marcel …
Eric Cahan, is Influenced by the Impressionists’ depiction of natural light and its ever-changing qualities, as well as Color Theory. For him, …
Agnès Varda’s films, photographs, and installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinct experimental style. The only …
“Blue Room”, the first institutional solo exhibition by Frank Heath, is a synchronized installation of video works connected by an ominous humor, …
Looking at Christo’s drawings for the Floating Piers, his project for Lake Iseo in Italy, I was wondering how someone experiences …
Through sculpture, writing, performance, and film, Josiah McElheny investigates the history of 20th Century Modernism in hope of expanding on the dominant …
Pedro Reyes is known for imagining solutions for a happier world. In 2008, Reyes worked with local authorities in Culiacán, Mexico to …
