Video: Xavier Veilhan Sculpts the Brains Behind the Music
French artist Xavier Veilhan used three-dimensional scanning technology to create a series of sculptural homages to producers he loves — people like Lee “Scratch” Perry and the Neptunes. These...
View ArticlePinpoint: On Stephanie Lawrence at Agora Gallery
Stephanie Lawrence’s captivating mixed media collages are influenced by graffiti and city walls from around the globe. Lawrence, who travels frequently, is interested in the layering of billboards,...
View ArticleLondon’s RCA Launches 21st Edition of “RCA Secret”
The Royal College of Art’s “RCA Secret” exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks by new and internationally acclaimed artists is one of the most highly anticipated art events of the...
View Article“Inside China- L’Intérieur du Géant” Comes to Hong Kong
HONG KONG — Launching this week just before the start of this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong is “Inside China- L’Intérieur du Géant,” the first co-produced exhibition by the K11 Art Foundation (KAF) and...
View ArticlePinpoint: On Atta Kwami at Howard Scott Gallery
Kuduo, is the name of the Asante brass vessel in which personal treasures are stored. Its significance is in providing a repository for valuables. Kuduo in this sense, stands for the artistic...
View ArticleA Feline Meowment: Japan Society's "Life of Cats"
By now, we all seem to have come to terms with the fact that the Internet is primarily a repository for cat GIFs — and accordingly, arts institutions have begun to jump on the feline bandwagon, from...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Victor Moscoso, Tamar Halpern, and More
Victor Moscoso at Andrew Edlin Gallery, through April 25 (134 Tenth Avenue)Co-curated by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel, “Psychedelic Drawings, 1967-1982” is an inspiring survey of the California-based...
View ArticleFar East Side: It's Asia Week in New York
Despite the ever-growing number of auctions during the third week of March, blind spots are developing: there are no longer dedicated sales of Korean art, and Bonhams is the lone holdout for Japanese....
View ArticlePortrait of the Artist As a Young Tangle of Wire: Sascha Braunig’s...
“It could be a decoration, or it could be a problem,” said Sascha Braunig, discussing the varied textures — pearlescent, tubular, blemishlessly smooth — that cover, absorb, and occasionally dominate...
View ArticleReview: “Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism” at Max Hetzler Gallery
The joint exhibition “Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism,” on display at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin and Paris, evokes the feeling of an era coming to an end. The curators, Lisa Schiff,...
View ArticleSpooky House of Photographs
Enter the gates of 24, Jor Bagh and an eerie silence prevails. Hanging right in front is a shadowy image of a crowman placed adjacent to a winter-kissed tree. On the porch is a board signed “Abandon”...
View ArticleReview: Tully Arnot “Trace Etc.” at Artereal Gallery, Sydney
Tully Arnot’s exhibition “Trace Etc.” at Artereal Gallery in Sydney showcases the depth and scope of the up-and-coming Sydney-based artist’s intriguing and innovative practice. Continuing his ongoing...
View ArticlePinpoint: Rebecca Salter at Howard Scott Gallery
Rebecca Salter, painter and printmaker born 1955, studied at Bristol Polytechnic and then at Kyoto City University of Arts in Japan, where she lived for six years. While living in Kyoto she studied...
View ArticleJohn Stezaker “The Projectionist” at The Approach, London
“The Projectionist” at London gallery The Approach presents a fantastic new series of silkscreens by celebrated British artist John Stezaker who is best known for creating surreal photo collage works...
View ArticleBob and Roberta’s Artful Protest at Handel Street Projects
London’s Handel Street Projects is hosting an exhibition of new works by renowned British artist Bob and Roberta Smith, the pseudonym of Patrick Brill who is best known for his text-based painted...
View ArticleGhosts that Cut: Folkert de Jong's Bronze Apparitions
When an artist suddenly shifts material — say, from edgy ephemera to a resistant, traditional medium like bronze — one must ask if the move was made in the service of a concept, or to suit more worldly...
View ArticleBernard Vidal on 25 Years in Art and His Book “Le Galeriste”
French gallerist Bernard Vidal opened Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle in 1990 at the age of 40 in the heart of Paris’s gallery district where it remains to this day. He opened the gallery with the intention...
View ArticleHito Steyerl Shatters Reality, Pieces it Back Together
“There’s no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism” — Walter Benjamin’s much-quoted aphorism seems to haunt Hito Steyerl’s dense and prodigious survey of films...
View ArticleGalerie Gmurzynska’s CEO on Asian Ambitions and Art Basel HK
It’s the last few hours of the last day of Art Basel in Hong Kong and the Galerie Gmurzynska booth is abuzz with activity. And in the midst of the flurry of activity is a surprisingly calm and composed...
View ArticleBerlin’s KW welcomes Julia Stoschek, Olafur Eliasson, and Martin Heller to...
Berlin’s KW Institute for Contemporary Art welcomed three new members to its Board this week: German art collector Julia Stoschek, Danish-Icelandic artist OLAFUR ELIASSON, and German lawyer and...
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