Chris Ofili: Night and Day
This autumn, the New Museum will present Chris Ofili’s first major solo museum exhibition in the United States. Chris Ofili: Night and Day will occupy the museum’s three main galleries and showcase a diverse bo...
Sterling Ruby VIVIDS at Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong will present an exhibition of new spray paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby. Rendered in a fluorescent pink palette, VIVIDS reflects Ruby’s ruminations on the ever-cha...
Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian Gallery
Organised in collaboration with the newly established Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Gagosian Gallery will present Helen Frankenthaler—Composing with Colour: Paintings 1962-1963. Curated by John Elderfield, t...
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...
The colour of black and white
“Inspiration comes from Iran’s society and also from the women around me,” says Afshin Pirhashemi, which seems a perfect and succinct way to describe the subject matter in his array of dramatic blac...
The sweetness outside of time
In 1969, Dorothy Iannone and her lover, Swiss artist Dieter Roth, were scheduled to participate in Ausstellung der Freunde, an exhibition of contemporaries in Kunsthalle Bern. Prior to the opening, however,...
Gagosian New York presents Shooters by Harmony Korine
Gagosian New York will present Shooters, an exhibition of recent paintings by Harmony Korine. Korine’s films merge fiction and reality, shaky footage with precise editing, seen in Kids (1995) and Spring Breaker...
Through the eye of the beholder
“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.” Perhaps Hemingway had a little insight into our ongoing romance with semi-destruction in his rather poignant line ...
Against the trend
Fashion in any field is a peculiar thing because to really be at the forefront of it you almost have to be the one who’s totally ignoring it. Such is the enduring case of two of the most influential artists...
Simply does it
In a world of perpetual information, constant conversation, and complex debate, it is an unbridled breath of fresh air and a proverbial sigh of relief to come across someone whose view liberates you from th...
We shall meld
Evolving from the Slow Food movement, which originated in Italy in the 1980s when a group of people resisted the opening of a McDonald’s in a small town, the phrase “Slow Life” describes a way of living that ...