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Forrest Bess: Untitled (The Spider), 1970 © The artist. Collection Christian Zacharias, Courtesy Modern Art, London, Photo: Robert Glowacki

ART-PRESENTATION: Forrest Bess

Forrest Bess, born on 5/10/1911 in Bay City, Texas where he also died on 11/111977, is considered an outstanding yet rather enigmatic …

Walid Raad Les Louvres and/or Kicking the Dead, 2018 Still from presentation, ONASSIS, Athens 2018 Photo: Elina Giounanli © Walid Raad

ART CITIES:Stockholm-Walid Raad

In photographs, videotapes, sculptures, texts and mixed media installations Walid Raad explores how violence affects bodies, minds, culture and traditions. Playfully, he …

ART NEWS:Feb.02

Among the first women to earn an MA in Painting from UC Berkeley in 1949 was Sonya Rapoport. The exhibition “Biorhythm” focuses …

Olafur Eliasson, Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009, Fluorescent lights, color filter foil (red, green, blue), aluminum, steel, ballasts, haze machine, Dimensions variable, Installation view: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2020, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, © 2009 Olafur Eliasson

ART CITIES:Bilbao-Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson uses his works, which encompass painting, photography, sculpture and large installations, to inquire into the relationships between the real and …

Lois Patiño fotograma de Strata of the Image

ART FAIRS:Art Madrid 2020

Art Madrid, the most important contemporary art fair in the Spanish capital, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year with an edition that …

Steve McQueen, Ashes 2002-2015, Video still, © Steve McQueen. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery

ART-PREVIEW:Steve McQueen

Born in London, England in 1969, Steve McQueen is an artist, film director, and screenwriter currently based in London and Amsterdam. His …

Minerva Cuevas, Horizon II, 2016, © Minerva Cuevas, Courtesy the artist and Gallery kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York

PHOTO:The Supermarket of Images

We live in a world that is increasingly saturated with images. Their number is growing so exponentially that the space of visibility …

Jim Dine, Two Shovels, 1962, Oil, two shovels and metal hooks on canvas, 122 x 213 x 23,5 cm, Private Collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

ART-PRESENTATION:Jim Dine

One of the most consistently innovative artists to have emerged in the second half of the 20th Century, Jim Dine was a …

Akinbode Akinbiyi, Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2006, From the series Sea Never Dry, Photograph, © Akinbode Akinbiyi, Courtesy: the artist and Gropius Bau

ART CITIES:Berlin-Akinbode Akinbiy

Walking the streets of Bamako, Berlin, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos, or other megacities, Akinbode Akinbiy studies social structures, uncovers the hidden, …

ART NEWS:Feb.01

For her site-specific work “Perspectives” (2020) Esther Adam draws linguistic and graphic analyses on the wide glass front of the GAK project …