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BOOK:Art As Therapy, Phaidon Publications

There is widespread agreement that art is “very important”, but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art is to enjoy its privileges, it has to be able to demonstrate its relevance in understandable ways to the widest possible audience. Alain de Botton and John Armstrong …

Anya Gallaccio, reference image for to see if time was there, 2017, Artwork © Anya Gallaccio, Commissioned by The Contemporary Austin with funds provided by the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe-Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.

ART CITIES:Austin-Anya Gallaccio

While Anya Gallaccio graduated from Goldsmiths College in London in the late ‘80s, during the short but fertile period that birthed Young …

Ai Weiwei, Forever Bicycles, 2014, 1,254 bicycles, Dimensions variable, Installation view at Waller Creek Delta, The Contemporary Austin – Museum Without Walls Program, Austin, Texas, 2017, Artwork © Ai Weiwei Studio, Courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio and Lisson Gallery,Courtesy The Contemporary Austin / Waller Creek Conservancy. Photo:Brian Fitzsimmons

ART CITIES:Austin-Ai Weiwei

Drawing on current global politics, Chinese culture, human rights, and more to push the definition of art into new realms, Ai Weiwei …

Christos Papoulias, Drawings-studies and works from the project The Erichthonean Museum of the Acropolis, 1990–91, Collection Centre Pompidou/Paris-Musée national d'art moderne/Centre de création industrielle, Installation view, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST)/Athens, documenta 14Christos Papoulias, Drawings-studies and works from the project The Erichthonean Museum of the Acropolis, 1990–91, Collection Centre Pompidou/Paris-Musée national d'art moderne/Centre de création industrielle, Installation view, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST)/Athens, documenta 14, Photo: Stathis Mamalakis

ART-REVIEW: documenta 14 Athens

Learning from Athens-Learning From Life: In the International Press the negative comments are more that the positive as well as the grumbling …

Nari Ward, Goats on Wheel 8, Photo: KatieDennyHorowitz, Socrates Sculpture Park Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Nari Ward, Part I

The exhibition “G.O.A.T., again” is the first institutional solo exhibition of Nari Ward in New York and is on presentation at Socrates …

ART-TRIBUTE: ANTIDORON, Part III

The exhibition “ANTIDORON The EMST Collection” in Kassel marks the first time the collection of Greece’s National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) …

OPEN CALL:Cross-Disciplinary Strategies

The bachelor degree programme Cross-Disciplinary Strategies. Applied Studies in Art, Science, Philosophy, and Global Challenges of University of Applied Arts Vienna, conveys …

Jennifer Steinkamp, Madame Curie, 2011, Seven-channel, synchronized projection, Dimensions variable, Photo: Robert Wedemeyer, Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum purchase with funds provided by Joan and Irwin Jacobs, 2011.1

ART CITIES:San Diego-Jennifer Steinkamp

Jennifer Steinkamp uses 3-D computer animation and new media to create video installations that activate architectural space and alter phenomenological perception. She …

Hito Steyerl, Liquidity Inc., 2014, Installation view, Courtesy Brooklyn Museum

ART-TRIBUTE:Infinite Blue, Part I

The Brooklyn Museum presents “Infinite Blue”, a major Collection exhibition in, that uses the color blue as a lens through which to …

Left & Right: Robert Glas, Voor Vrij Netherland, 2014, © Robert Glas, Foam Archive

PHOTO:Robert Glas-Before the Law

Robert Glas’ practice is an ongoing investigation into the relation between the body and the state. The emphasis lies on the constructs …