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Left: Nina Beier, Demonstrator,2015, Vinyl print on frame, 155.3 x 121.9 cm, © Nina Beier, Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures Archive, Right: Nina Beier, Plunge, 2015, Faucet, coins, resin, wine glass, 74.3 x 24.1 x 24.1 cm, © Nina Beier, Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Nina Beier-Baby

Nina Beier is based in Berlin. Her work unfolds the histories enmeshed with serially produced objects and materials. She is drawn to …

Alice Neel, Elizabeth on the Donkey, 1977, Xavier Hufkens Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Brussels-Alice Neel

Alice Neel witnessed a parade of Avant-Garde movements from Abstract Expressionism to Conceptual Art, and refused to follow any of them. Instead, …

Radio Week 3 (6/11-11/11/18, H.E.I. Guide, © H.E.I. Guide

ART CITIES:Basel-Radiophonic Spaces

Over the hundred years since its emergence, the radio medium has been explored by musicians, composers, writers, philosophers and fine artists (and …

George Segal, Flesh Nude in Blue Field I, 1977, Plaster, paint, 85,1 x 171,5 x 20,3 cm, © The George and Helen Segal Foundation Inc., Courtesy of Galerie Templon-Paris/Brussels

ART-PREVIEW: George Segal

A painter and sculptor, George Segal came to be recognized primarily for his life-size white plaster sculptures made from casts taken from …

Mario Merz, Spostamenti della terra e della luna su un asse, 2003, Installation view Fondazione Merz-Turin, 2011, Courtesy Fondazione Merz-Turin Photo: © Paolo Pellion, © Mario Merz, by SIAE 2018

ART CITIES:Milan-Mario Merz

Mario Merz started constructing igloos in 1968 and developed the idea thereafter, creating increasingly bigger and often structurally more complicated igloos. In …

Sophie Calle, Le lit, 2018, Color photograph, embroidered woolen cloth, framing 36 × 46 cm, © Sophie Calle / ADAGP-Paris 2018, Photo: Claire Dorn / Courtesy Perrotin Parce que je me suis toujours demandé qui en avait la garde après un divorce ? Celui qui souffre ? Parce que je quitte une maison que j’occupe depuis cinquante ans et qu’il en était le personnage principal Parce qu’il est en béton Parce que je ne laisse que lui derrière moi

ART CITIES:Paris-Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle’s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s …

Robert Rauschenberg

TRACES:Robert Rauschenberg

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Robert Rauschenberg (22/10/1925-12/5/2008). Building on European Dada and Surrealism, notably Marcel Duchamp and Kurt …

Forensic Oceanography and Forensic Architecture, The Iuventa,18 June 2017, 2018. By motion tracking the clouds from a continuous video taken at sea, Forensic Architecture reconstructed a 360º view of the rescue scene in the central Mediterranean and located vessels observed on the horizon. Image: Forensic Oceanography and Forensic Architecture, 2018

ART CITIES:Utrecht-Forensic Justice

In 2010, Eyal Weizman created the Forensic Architecture (FA) research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Forensic Architecture brings together archives …

Paul McCarthy, White Snow, Asleep, 2013-2014, 51.1 x 172 x 99.3 cm, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, Photo: Walla Walla Foundry

ART FAIRS:Fiac 2018, Part II

One of the oldest and respectable Art Fairs, FIAC, opens for its 45th Edition at the Grand Palais in Paris. A major …

Tacita Dean, Antigone (Film still), 2018, 2 synchronised 35 mm colour anamorphic films, optical sound, with a running time of exactly 60 min, continuous loop synced to start on the hour, © Tacita Dean, Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London

ART-PRESENTATION: Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean is one of the most important artists working today. Her subject matter is often historical, touching on memory and empathy, …

Alberto Burri, Rosso Plastica, 1963, Plastic, acrylic, vinavil and combustion on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, © Tornabuoni Art

ART-TRIBUTE:Alberto Burri

Alberto Burri was a master of 20th Century art, his works successfully blur the line between painting and sculpture. As a result …

Anish Kapoor, Mirror (Magenta Apple mix 2), 2018, Stainless steel and lacquer, 172 x 172 x 27 cm, © ADAGP Anish Kapoor 2018 Photo: Archives kamel mennour, Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London

ART FAIRS:Fiac 2018,Part I

One of the oldest and respectable Art Fairs, FIAC, opens for its 45th Edition at the Grand Palais in Paris. A major …

Joel Shapiro, Untitled, 2016, Bronze and painted wood, 63.5 x 53.3 x 58.4 cm, ©2018 Joel Shapiro / Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Karsten Greve

ART CITIES:Paris-Joel Shapiro

Born in 1941, Joel Shapiro is a famous Minimalist artist renowned for his frequently anthropomorphic monumental bronze sculptures, he endlessly probes the …