ART-PRESENTATION: Poïpoï, Part II
In 1958, Ben (Benjamin Vautier) created his shop at 32 rue Tondutti de l’Escarène in Nice. Close to the ideas of Marcel …
OPEN CALLS:UNIDEE-Residencies, Grants & Production Prize
UNIDEE – University of Ideas’ (Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto Onlus) format proposes an educational model based on “other” ways of gaining experience …
ART-TRIBUTE:Entangled-Threads & Making
Women have played a pivotal role in art for centuries and yet, so often, their work has been regarded as of less …
ART CITIES:Mexico City-Gabriel Orozco
Gabriel Orozco proposes a game where logos and the rules of the market are set against each other, as two forms of …
BOOK:Unspoken Spaces, Thames & Hudson Publications
The first major new monograph on Olafur Eliasson in almost a decade, produced in close collaboration with Olafur Eliasson and his studio …
ART CITIES:Paris-John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain came to fame by creating exuberant and stately forms, using the crumpled car parts’ colors to delineate the irregularity of …
ART-PRESENTATION:Anna Oppermann-Neverending Paradox
Anna Oppermann is still little known, but is a key figure of the German Avant-Garde, during her career as an artist, she …
ART CITIES:N.York-Lee Ufan
Mono-ha began as a sculpture movement, but Lee Ufan extended its literalness to painting. Loading his brush, he patted marks in a …
ARCHITECTURE: Friedrich Kiesler, Part I
Friedrich Kiesler was an architect, stage designer, designer, artist and theoretician. Kiesler worked for most of his career as a designer of …
ART CITIES: Copenhagen-Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living …
ART-PRESENTATION: Richard Deacon-Thirty Pieces
Born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949, Richard Deacon has emerged as one of Britain’s most celebrated sculptors. From an early stage in …
NEW COMERS: Shahpour Pouyan
The Iranian artist Shahpour Pouyan belongs to the generation that came of age after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent Iran-Iraq …
ART CITIES:Dubai-Bill Viola
Bill Viola, in one of the pioneering figures of a generation of artists in the ‘70s employing video art and sound technologies. …
ART NEWS:March 02
Selma Gürbüz presents her solo exhibition “Karnavalesk” that includes never before seen three-dimensional work, painting, work on paper, and kinetic sculpture. Gürbüz’s …
ART CITIES:N.York-Bernar Venet
The French conceptual artist Bernar Venet rose to prominence in the late ‘60s through the art scene in New York. He moved …
TRAVELER’S DIARY: Geishas
“The Art of Love in the Time of Geishas: Forbidden Japanese Masterpieces” is part of the Pinacothèque de Paris exhibitions dedicated to …
ARCHITECTURE:Spaces Without Drama
The exhibition “Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth” at Graham Foundation examines the recent proliferation of …
PHOTO:Double Take
Appropriation took on new significance in mid-20th Century America and Britain with the rise of consumerism and the proliferation of popular images …
PHOTO:Diane Arbus-In The Beginning
The exhibition “Diane Arbus: In The Beginning” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), considers the first seven years of …
ART CITIES:DUBAI-Sophia Al Maria
For nearly a decade, Sophia Al Mariahas been finding ways to describe 21st Century life in the Gulf Arab nations through art, …
BOOK:A History of Pictures,Thames & Hudson Publibations
The problem facing all picture-makers is, however, the same: how to compress three-dimensional people, things and places onto a flat surface? In …
ART CITIES:Luxembourg -Darren Almond
Darren Almond works in a variety of media. His diverse subjects deal with abstract ideas of time, space, history and memory and …
ART-PRESENTATION: Mimmo Rotella-Selected Early Works
The impact of Mimmo Rotella as one of the pioneering artists of the 20th Century is evidently present throughout contemporary landscapes of …
ARCHITECTURE:Martin-Gropius-Bau
The architects Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden originally designed the building in the Renaissance style to house an arts and crafts museum. …