Facing a series of art fair cancellations, one Berlin dealer is setting up his own impromptu event. Johann König is offering works by artists including Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Anne Imhof and Katharina Grosse in a week-long “fair” to coincide with the original dates of Art Basel. The live Basel fair has been provisionally postponed until September and instead, online viewing rooms will open from 19 June.
Read MoreArt survives all. And it helps humanity survive everything. Keeping this in mind, galleries from India and Dubai have come together to initiate a digital exhibitions platform—In Touch.
"Works from Anju Dodiya and Shilpa Gupta are being offered to collectors for the first time. Special attention has been paid to pricing and scale.”
Read More“There’ve been so many Richter exhibitions in the world. There’s no point in doing another one unless it contributes to thinking anew about the work. So we came up with the idea to take the cue for the show from a series that Gerhard did from 2014, which he called the Birkenau series. They are four large paintings that are based on four photographs that are the only extant photographs taken by prisoners during the time of their imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau.“
Read MoreFrom 2011 through 2019, Anelli -- whose most well-known project involved documenting Marina Abramović as she sat for over 700 hours for her 2010 performance "The Artist is Present," -- captured 43 artists including Abramović, Shirin Neshat, Joan Jonas and Matthew Barney in the intimate seclusion of their workspaces. Anelli's book speaks to the enduring mystique and magic of artist studios, where myriad materials and concepts re-emerge as objets d'art.
Read MoreMuseums are closed now, everywhere. But something remarkable is also happening: They are making their collections available online as never before, with new websites, special programs on favorite artists and their works, and curators even taking you on a visit to a masterpiece with cocktail in hand.
Read MoreArtist Kiki Smith, daughter of the American sculptor Tony Smith, had an unorthodox upbringing in New Jersey. “There was a gravestone with our name in front of the house,” she said in 2003. “The kids would say I was a witch.”
Read MoreThe high stakes of success for artists today are greater than ever. For contemporaries who remember the innocence of earlier days when the critical field could be encompassed by a single vision, certain affinities have aged. Ayşe Erkmen represents a perennial tendency to push the envelope of specificity, in which sites of curation, from the white cube to the open field, inclusive of all art spaces, are redrawn, expanded and turned inward in search of multidimensional engagement with society, nature and culture.
Read MoreProtecting freedom of expression and media freedom in times of a pandemic is of vital importance. In almost all European countries people have been living in confinement for almost two months, a situation which has profoundly impacted on our communities, economies, families and daily lives.
Read MoreThe Guardian recently published an article on how art and theatres can be supported during the shutdown caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus.
One of the 12 suggestions was to “seek out virtual shows”. It’s a plea that has been taken up by many across the art world, including South Africa’s William Kentridge-created Centre for the Less Good Idea.
Read MoreIlya and Emilia Kabakov wrote to us for the project a strong, encouraging message regarding the COVID-19 virus pandemic and its impact on their daily life, and its impact on the world.
Read MoreGalerie Templon in Paris will showcase signature woven works by celebrated Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota as part of a forthcoming exhibition entitled “Inner Universe.” These works expand upon the artist’s ongoing exploration of self-identity, the finiteness of existence, and eternity.
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