Choreography and Calligraphy: Elizabeth Neel at Susanne Vielmetter Los...
Full of ideas, Elizabeth Neel’s “Lobster with Shell Game,” which runs through July 3 at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, trumpets an expressive abstraction somewhere between choreography and...
View ArticleVIDEO: Gallery Talk with Barbara Rose on Al Held
In this inaugural Gallery Talk event hosted by Blouin ArtInfo, Daniel Kunitz, Editor-in-Chief of Modern Painters, speaks with Barbara Rose, famed art historian and critic, on the subject of Al Held’s...
View ArticleBruce Nauman’s Pivotal Prints at Sims Reed Gallery in London
“Bruce Nauman Prints 1970 – 2006” at London’s Sims Reed Gallery offers a fascinating insight into renowned American artist Bruce Nauman’s intriguing printmaking practice that the exhibition presents as...
View ArticleWhite Rabbit Gallery of Chinese Art Announces PARADI$E BITCH
Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, the world-renowned museum of Chinese contemporary art, has announced that its next exhibition will be its most complex to date and will feature mainly new acquisitions,...
View ArticleThomas Hirschhorn’s Ruinous South London Gallery Show
“In-Between” at the South London Gallery (SLG) is Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn’s first major solo show in London in many years. Taking as his point of departure Italian Marxist theorist and...
View ArticleCory Arcangel on the Art of Music and His Paris Solo Show
Sound-based art has increased in popularity and influence in recent years thanks to innovators and pioneers such as the Brooklyn-based American artist Cory Arcangel, whose current solo exhibition at...
View ArticleVIDEO: Reveling in Sunflowers — Santi Moix’s “A Moment” at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Paul Kasmin Gallery’s 297 10th Avenue space has received a bright splash of color in the form of Catalan painter Santi Moix’s latest series, “A Moment,” which features large-scale canvases based on...
View ArticleLoke Hong Seng Shows Early Portrait of Singapore at Yeo Workshop
Photographs of Singapore during the second half of the 20th century may not be inherently novel — documentation for journalism and government projects are widely available — but “street portraits” in...
View ArticleAGNSW Reveals 2015 Packing Prize Winner, Archibald Finalists
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced French-born Sydney artist Bruno Jean Grasswill as the winner of this year’s Packing Room Prize for his portrait of Australian actor Michael Caton.The...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Tom of Finland, “Hello Walls,” and More
Tom of Finland at Artists Space, through August 23 (55 Walker Street)An untitled 1976 graphite drawing in “The Pleasure of Play” depicts a buff, smirking man literally fucking the world. It’s one of...
View ArticleeX de Medici on Sublime “Sour Crude” Subversions in Sydney
“There are two kinds of oil, sweet crude and sour crude. Sweet crude is ready to burn, sour crude needs a lot of refining. This work is crude and freakin’ sour,” says enigmatic Canberra-based artist eX...
View ArticleZhao Xiaodan's "Blooming Flowers" Brings Light to China's Education System
On first glance, Zhao Xiaodan’s paintings appear straightforward enough: children performing in a choir, young girls practicing ballet, students performing with props. But on a closer look the viewer...
View Article"Slow Turning" Produces Contemporary Forms at the Bluecoat Display Centre
Working in the mediums of wood, willow, and natural fibers, the artists that comprise “Slow Turning” at the Bluecoat Display Centre in Liverpool demonstrate traditional wood turning techniques that can...
View ArticleBritish Painters Form Collective Vision of "Reality" at Walker Art Gallery
Though recent decades have shown the rise of minimal and conceptual art, installation, photography, and film, a new group show at the Walker Art Gallery testifies to the continued significance of oil...
View ArticleVIDEO: Anthony McCall's Notebooks and Duration Drawings
Anthony McCall is best known for work that might seem quite distant from the sterility of paper: installations of what he calls “solid light film,” in which the viewer faces and walks through geometric...
View ArticleKrishen Khanna Exclusive at Dhoomimal
Meeting Krishen Khanna and speaking to him even for a few minutes is an experience that almost makes you wish you were born in another era, in another time, in another city — in an age when Bombay was...
View ArticleSui Jianguo’s New Work at Pace Beijing
Pace Beijing opened "Touchable," an exhibition of new work by prominent Chinese contemporary sculptor Sui Jianguo on July 9.Regarded as a leading light in the field of contemporary Chinese sculpture,...
View ArticleChankerk's "Contemporary Asian Landscapes" Reveals a Continent in Transition
Singapore’s bustling Raffles Quay, a sleepy fishing village in Bali, and an urban street corner in Osaka — these are the scenes Malaysian painter Chankerk picked to convey a contemporary representation...
View ArticleMarc Quinn’s “The Toxic Sublime” at White Cube, London
“The Toxic Sublime” at White Cube’s Bermondsey, London gallery is an exhibition of new work by renowned British artist Marc Quinn — the artist’s first at White Cube London since 2010. Featuring two new...
View Article"A Fish Story" Tells Tale of Global Maritime History at NTU CCA Singapore
Before automotive and air travel, oceans were the major transit infrastructures of the world, fundamental to the development of modern trade and shipping practices. Photographer, theorist, historian,...
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