An unrestrained eye
The Glass Archive presents a special three-part series – The unflinching lens
Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama,
three eminent Japanese post-war photographers, have captured radical views of a c...
Art and the post-post-modern self
Entering the exhibition, Don’t You Know Who I Am?, one is immediately faced with an extensive arrangement of mis-matched chairs from various eras and in various styles. Abstract, slightly confusin...
Hypothesis for an Exhibition. Giulio Paolini at Dominique Lévy, New York
The title Hypothesis for an Exhibition is a clear reference to Paolini’s 1963 work Ipotesi Per Una Mostra, which Giulio Paolini produced for his first exhibition for La Tortuga gallery in Rome but remained unre...
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015
It’s not just a coincidence that the Whitechapel Gallery announces its landmark abstract art exhibition for 2015. The Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool are currently displaying exhibitions of two major abstract a...
Natural progression
The very first major solo exhibition is a turning point for any artist, though when it comes to Caroline Jane Harris, an artist whose innate instinct for what’s in the detail continues to astonish us, it’s a ...
Great balls of fire (and water)
Galerie Perrotin Hong Kong invited French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel to create site- specific sculptures. Othoniel is well known for his works of colourful giant glass “necklaces”— the Pavilion o...
How to create an artwork
Joe Zucker’s “process” art over the last 40 years has been eccentric, puzzling and uniquely appealing in its formal logic. Varying wildly in approach and technique, his work is concerned with ideas of art s...
Let’s hand it to Aristide – glover extraordinaire
Inspired by contemporary artists, science, architecture and nature, the glove company, Aristide, was founded in 2010 to transform the glove from being a simple accessory to a fashion masterpiece, by fusing beau...
Unfolding beauty
If contemporary art is the term that designates nowadays a specific mode of relating to the world, which is both critical-discursive and excessively attentive to the developments of the market, it seems that ...
Crystal Clear – Prologue by Fredrikson Stallard
During Art Basel Hong Kong, the city revealed its latest creative centre – PMQ – a transformed former Police Marital Quarters in the ever- changing Sheung Wan district. To cele...
A fire, fjords and ferries
The fire that broke out in the town of Ǻlesund in western Norway in 1904 became an act of creative destruction. There was one unfortunate fatality but the other 10,000 inhabitants, escaping the co...
A message for you …
If you’re reading this then you are the recipient of the first ever successful international flight by paper aeroplane. It is made from no ordinary paper. It is actually a special kind of paper, f...
Nancy Rubins at Gagosian Gallery, New York
Gagosian Gallery will present Our Friend Fluid Metal, Nancy Rubins’ first major exhibition of sculpture in New York since 2006. Nancy Rubins is known for exploring the aesthetic possibilities of found objects, ...
Cahiers d’Art releases 100th issue featuring Hiroshi Sugimoto
Cahiers d’Art, one of the most prominent publishers of the visual arts in the 20th century, will celebrate its 100th issue of the Cahiers d’Art revue since its debut in 1926. Issue No. 1, 2014 is the third edit...
Dash and brio win the day
Alice in Wonderland’s creator, Lewis Carroll, used to visit Cowley Manor in the 1890s. He sought inspiration here, and, it is said, brought the little girl who became Alice with him. The land on w...
Artists’ Film International show at Whitechapel Gallery, London
This summer, the Whitechapel Gallery hosts a showcase of artists’ films from around the world for Artists’ Film International, a touring programme of film, video and animation.
The Italian artist Yuri Ancara...
To Be Or Not To be – Giulio Paolini at Whitechapel Gallery, London
This July, the Whitechapel Gallery presents To Be Or Not To Be an exhibition featuring key works from the Renaissance to the present day by the Italian artist Giulio Paolini.
The exhibition is comprised of p...
Mario Schifano: 1960-69
Mario Schifano has always been considered a rebel genius and one of Italy’s most significant post-war artists. Unlike the majority of Italian artists, however, Schifano produced hundreds of works of art durin...
Lisson Gallery to open in Chelsea, New York City
Lisson Gallery is set to open a new 8,500 square foot gallery space in the Chelsea neighbourhood of New York City. This marks an expansion of the gallery’s longstanding presence in New York City, and joins thre...
Marcel Duchamp at Gagosian Gallery, New York
Fifty years after their debut in the same building on Madison Avenue, Gagosian New York is presenting an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp’s editioned readymades.
Duchamp remains one of the ultimate avant-gardist...
Alibis – Sigmar Polke at Tate Modern
This autumn, Tate Modern presents Alibis, an exhibition bringing together works by the German experimental artist, Sigmar Polke. The show embraces the work spanning the five decades of Polke’s career – among th...