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Cindy Sherman, Cover Girl (Vogue), 1976/2011, Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures-New York

PHOTO:Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has …

The Octogonal Mirror Room, from La Menesunda, 1965 (detail). Installation view: “La Menesunda según Marta Minujín” [La Menesunda according to Marta Minujín], Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2015. Courtesy Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Photo: Agustina Vizcarra

ART CITIES:N.York-Marta Minujín

Over the past 60 years, the epoch-defining Marta Minujín has developed happenings, performances, installations, and video works that have greatly influenced generations …

Monica Bonvicini, Hy$teria, 2019, Photo: Roman März, © Monica Bonvicini and Bildrecht Wien

ART CITIES:Vienna-Monica Bonvicini

Since the mid-1990s Monica Bonvicini has been exploring political, social and institutional situations and their impact on society as well as on …

TRACES:Michelangelo Pistoletto

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the Italian artist, and art theorist, Michelangelo Pistoletto (25/6/33- ). Born in Biella, Italy, …

Beverly Fishman, Untitled (Anxiety, ADHD, Pain), 2019, Urethane paint on wood, 101.6 x 106.7 x 5.1 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Cart, Horse, Cart

The works that are on presentation at the group exhibition “Cart, Horse, Cart” emerge from more traditional formal, material, and spatial concerns, …

Titus Kaphar, Shifting the Gaze, 2017. Oil on canvas, 210.8 × 262.3 cm, Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs Jr., Fund, 2017.34, © Titus Kaphar, Photo: Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION:Titus Kaphar

Titus Kaphar is a painter and a sculptor. His work explores and wrestles with our long history of slavery and racism. He …

Liu Jianhua, Square No. 37, 2014, Porcelain, steel, 4 x 74 x 148 cm, © Liu Jianhua, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION:Liu Jianhua

Liu Jianhua is one of China’s rising stars in the contemporary art scene, who experiments with comprehensive materials. After graduating from college …

Rebecca Belmore, blood on the snow, 2002, Fabric dye, cotton, feathers, chair, 107 x 610 x 610 cm, The Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern, purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Mendel Art Gallery Foundation, 2004, © Rebecca Belmore, Photo: Howard Ursuliak/Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Rebecca Belmore

The Canadian artist Rebecca Belmore started working as a performance artist in the late 1980s. The immediacy and presence of that discipline …

Alex Katz, Red Dancer 8, 2018, Oil on linen, 91,4 x 274,3 cm, Photo: Paul Takeuchi, © Alex Katz / Adagp, Paris

ART CITIES:Paris-Alex Katz

Although Alex Katz belongs to the Pop generation of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, it was not until the 1970s …

Mehraneh Atashi, Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict, 2018, Grazer Kunstverien, Graz

ART-PREVIEW:City Prince/sses

The exhibition “City Prince/sses” at Palais de Tokyo is presented as an imaginary, multiple and complex city, without borders, messy, staggering and …

Maria Lai, Untitled, 1991, Thread, cloth, tempera, 17 x 19 x 2,5 cm, M77 Gallery-Milano, Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri, Courtesy M77 Gallery e Archivio Maria Lai, © Archivio Maria Lai by SIAE 2019

ART CITIES:Rome-Maria Lai

Maria Lai is without doubt one of the leading figures in the history of contemporary Italian art. Not only on account of …

Carsten Nicolai, bausatz noto ∞ (color version), 1998/2015, Record player, color vinyl records with locked grooves, mixing board, amplifier, loudspeaker/ headphones, Dimension variable, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART-Leipzig/Berlin, Photo: Julija Stankeviciene

ART-PRESENTATION:Big Orchestra

Sound is an essential part of contemporary art. Yet musical instruments, which are simultaneously sculptures, represent a recent development in contemporary art …