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Chiharu Shiota, Where Are We Going?, 2017, White wool, wire, rope, Installation view: Where Are We Going?, Le Bon Marché, Paris, 2017, Photo: Gabriel de la Chapelle

ART-PREVIEW:Chiharu Shiota-The Soul Trembles

Chiharu Shiota is known for performances and installations that express the intangible: memories, anxiety, dreams, silence and more. Often arising out of personal experience, her works have enthralled people all over the world and from all walks of life by questioning universal concepts such as identity, boundaries, and existence. Particularly …

Maria Lai, Untitled, 1991, Thread, cloth, tempera, 17 x 19 x 2,5 cm, M77 Gallery-Milano, Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri, Courtesy M77 Gallery e Archivio Maria Lai, © Archivio Maria Lai by SIAE 2019

ART CITIES:Rome-Maria Lai

Maria Lai is without doubt one of the leading figures in the history of contemporary Italian art. Not only on account of …

Carsten Nicolai, bausatz noto ∞ (color version), 1998/2015, Record player, color vinyl records with locked grooves, mixing board, amplifier, loudspeaker/ headphones, Dimension variable, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART-Leipzig/Berlin, Photo: Julija Stankeviciene

ART-PRESENTATION:Big Orchestra

Sound is an essential part of contemporary art. Yet musical instruments, which are simultaneously sculptures, represent a recent development in contemporary art …

Left: Sally Mann, Ponder Heart, 2009, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art-Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, © Sally Mann. Right: Sally Mann, Bean’s Bottom, 1991, Silver dye bleach print, Private Collection, © Sally Mann

Photo:Sally Mann-A Thousand Crossings

For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has been taking hauntingly beautiful, experimental photographs that explore the essential themes of existence: memory, …

Jeff Wall, An Eviction, 1988/2004, Transparency in lightbox, 229 × 414 cm, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Athens-Jeff Wall

As a major art figure in recent decades, Jeff Wall has developed a body of work that has profoundly changed the way …

Christian Boltanski, Prendre la parole 2005, Woodboards, coats, lamps and sound boxes / Collection of the artist. © Christian Boltanski / ADAGP, Paris, 2019, © MACs_Grand Hornu-Belgique, Photo : Philippe De Gobert

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski is a leading figure in contemporary art, considered as France’s most influential living artist. Since 1967, he has developed an …

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, The Recovered Manifesto of Wissam [inaudible], 2017, Artificial orange trees, mini cassettes, stone speakers, printed sheets, and 3-channel audio installation Dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley

ART FAIRS:Art Basel 2019 Parcours

Founded in 1970 by gallerists (Ernst Beyeler, Trudi Bruckner and Balz Hilt) from Basel, Art Basel today stages the world’s premier art …

Cabins, Taschen Publications

BOOK:Cabins,Taschen Publications

Ever since Henry David Thoreau described his refuge existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, in “Walden” or “Life in the Woods” (1854), the …

Shahpour Pouyan, After examining the logbook, the doctors assume they are dealing with the plague, Exhibition view, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 2019, , Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES:Paris-Shahpour Pouyan

Shahpour Pouyan’s work is a commentary about power, domination and possession through the force of culture. His interest lies in singling out …

Geumhyung Jeong, installation view, Homemade RC Toy, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

ART CITIES:Basel-Geumhyung Jeong

In her practice as choreographer, dancer and performer Geumhyung Jeong constantly renegotiates the relationship between the human body and the objects that …

Irving Penn, The Spilled Cream, New York, 1980, © The Irving Penn Foundation

Photo:Irving Penn-Still Life

Irving Penn was one of the most important and influential photographers of the 20th Century. In a career that spanned almost 70years, …

Jim Hodges, B.E.2, Silver and Gold, 2011. Japanese Silver, 24K Gold, Silver on primed and unprimed linen 59 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. On loan from Pizzuti Collection

ART-PRESENTATION:Jim Hodges

Jim Hodges is among a generation of artists who came of age in the 1980s and 90s amidst a deepening AIDS epidemic …

Park View/Paul Soto: Dylan Mira, Night Vision, 2018, HD video with sound 14:00

ART FAIRS:LISTE Art Fair 2019

As a not-for-profit-oriented fair, LISTE Art Fair has consistently advocated for the promotion of new galleries since its founding in 1996. The …

Ellen Gallagher, Ecstatic Draught of Fishes, 2019, Oil, ink, gold leaf, and paper on canvas, 248 × 201.9 cm, © Ellen Gallagher. Photo: Thomas Lannes, © Ellen Gallagher, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART-PRESENTATION: Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher’s work explores issues of race, identity and transformation, referencing historical and contemporary subjects that include modernist abstraction, marine biology and …