Many truths, many expressions
“Over the last two decades Rwanda has changed enormously … but there’s still a tendency to try to represent it, particularly visually, in relation to genocide”, says Dr Zoe Norridge, curator of the forthcom...
Hold still
This February, Luxembourg & Dayan London, highlights Lucien Freud’s unique creative vision by exhibiting two key nude portraits by the late artist.
If there is one thing Lucien Freud is known for, as...
Rachel Whiteread Opens New show at the Gagosian Gallery, Geneva
When Rachel Whiteread exhibits her work it isn’t just about what’s there, it’s also about what’s not. It is her careful consideration of negative space that is her signature, and a motif that continues in her l...
Glass films…Glass Magazine x CNN by Joao Laureano
When we appeared on CNN in 2013, we asked our readers what their favourite images from Glass were - and we compiled these in a collection of favourite Glass moments. With music by Max Cooper featuring Kathryn B...
The ballerina stripped bare
Marcel Duchamp caused an outcry stripping the bride bare. Today he would have to strip himself, strip his skin and then flay his flesh.
Provocation gets old and dies, and yet there are taboos that agains...
Jeff Koons for Dom Pérignon collaboration
The latest artist x alcoholic beverage collaborations comes in the form of Jeff Koons’s limited edition new bottle for Dom Perignon, revealing the Balloon Venus. This is the latest in a series of collaborations...
Three perfect days in Paris 6eme Rive Gauche – day one
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At six in the morning there was a run on the gates of Eurostar in St Pancras International, it seemed like everyone was leaving London. Looking around me I was struck by one of those thoughts that quickly ...
Peace From the Bottom of My Art
Topical yet misunderstood, Iran has long been under the watchful eye of the media for its ongoing political unrest – thus people are led to think it is a place devoid of artistic expression. This couldn’t be fu...
Talking shop
Kiosk was set up in 2005 on Spring Street in Soho, New York. Half museum, half store, it has since atttracted a quiet following of customers interested in meticulously sourced artefacts from around the worl...
Feeling the love
“People are throwing off the constraints of their daily lives – the rent payments, the nine-to-five, the commute – they are primed and ready to rave.” So says Steve Gallagher, co-founder of out-there and outré ...