"The laptop has become the studio for now. Besides, I have been making drawings, notes and reading a lot. It’s a totally new rhythm and I feel lucky that being an artist allows one to work from any place. I just opened a work in a container in Copenhagen and am preparing towards an outdoor light work to open in festival in Zurich next month."
Read MoreSotheby’s is now calling its cross-category London sale on July 28 “From Rembrandt to Richter” with the addition of Gerhard Richter’s Wolken (fenster), (Clouds (Window))to the live evening auction.
Read MoreNo artist who worked in Moscow during the last decades of the Soviet Union needs instruction in how to survive lock-down and social distancing. Ilya Kabakov was a leading figure there amongst the “unofficial” artists, a small group, constantly under the eye the KGB, making his own while he was putting bread on the table by illustrating children’s books. In 1983, wearied with painting, he launched himself into a new practice, the creation of three-dimensional environments, each being richly imagined, resonant with story and to be experienced by onlookers directly.
Read MoreThe slaughterhouse connects the goats to the sea by their blood and entrails being offered. The Capricorn is a goat climbing a mountain whose snake-fish tail enters the sea. The milk is an offering to the goats and the sea. In the Hydra constellation, similar to the island and to the old island’s flag, sits the owl, the cat, the crow, the sextant and the offering chalice.
Read MoreAs a work of aesthetic art, the cinematic masterpiece is also a direct nod to Joey's eternal love of art, artistic expression, and artful creation. Although her art collection is vast, Horn focuses on female created art from contemporary artists from India. Among her most revered pieces are creations from Nalini Malani, Shilpa Gupta, Anju Dodiya, and Chitra Ganesh. The end product of "Liberté: A Call to Spy" produces cinematically powerful outcomes, beautiful backdrops, and masterful shots that will instill real feelings among viewers.
Read MorePhillips has announced that it will hold its New York 20th century and contemporary art sales in global live-streamed events on Thursday, July 2.
Joan Mitchell’s Noël, 1961-1962, a nearly 7-foot high abstract oil-on-canvas, with an estimate between US$9.5 million and US$12.5 million, and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Victor25448, 1987, estimated to fetch about US$10 million, will lead the evening auction of more than 20 lots.
Read MoreThe long-awaited Gerhard Richter exhibit at Met Breuer was to be the last show mounted in the old Whitney building before the Met pulls up stakes and subleases the Brutalist structure to the Frick Collection.
The Met’s departure was postponed by the coronavirus, and the Richter show, which opened on March 4, has been extended, end date unknown. Richter, considered by many to be the greatest living painter, pushes the boundaries of what paint can do through hyper-real portraits, smudgy grisaille scenes that mimic newsprint and squeegeed abstracts.
Read MoreGoodman Gallery is pleased to present a Shirin Neshat online film programme, featuring a selection of preeminent films from the artist's career. Over the course of five days, different films from Neshat's oeuvre will be made available for 24 hours to view on the Goodman Gallery's online programme platform.
Read MoreLos Angeles gallery Art + Practice has flung open its doors for virtual visitors, taking its exhibition of work by Black artists into the digital realm.
The organisation’s 20,000 sq ft campus in Leimert Park is hosting Collective Constellation: Selections from The Eileen Harris Norton Collection until January 2021. The exhibition brings together a range of work made by women of colour, including Shirin Neshat, Betye Saar, Doris Salcedo, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Read MoreA dozen countries in the Asia-Pacific region have seen an alarming clampdown on freedom of expression during the COVID-19 crisis, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.
In her appeal to authorities that any action they take to stop the spread of false information should adhere to the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, Ms. Bachelet said that “in these times of great uncertainty”, citizens had a right to voice their concerns.
Read MoreChiharu Shiota’s installations, often involving everyday objects entangled in a sea of blood-red, black or white yarn, leave a searing impression in the minds of viewers; not only for their exceptional beauty, but also because of the poignant way in which they represent personal narratives, and articulate complex feelings of longing and loss.
Read MoreWhat began as an attempt by two music insiders to pause business as usual across the industry on Tuesday, in response to the protests sweeping the nation, broadened and morphed overnight on social media into a less focused action, resulting in a sea of black boxes across Instagram and other platforms.
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