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Leslie Thornton, Cut from Liquid to Snake, HD video, 22’ 6’’, Exhibition view “Speed” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2018, © Leslie Thornton, Courtesy the artist & Rodeo Gallery-London/Piraeus

ART CITIES:London-Leslie Thornton

The American filmmaker and artist Leslie Thornton creates vigorously experimental film and video. All her work delves into the mystery and ongoing …

Hideaki Kawashima, grove, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 50.0 x 61.0 cm, © Hideaki Kawashima, Courtesy the artist and Tomio Koyama Gallery

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Hideaki Kawashima

Hideaki Kawashima was born in Aichi, Japan in 1969, after graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 1991, Kawashima undertook two years of …

Jeff Wall, Siphoning Fuel, 2008, Color photograph, 186 × 235 cm, Edition of 2 + 1 AP, © Jeff Wall, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Laws of Motion

If Karl Marx’s theory of surplus-value is his most revolutionary contribution to economic science, his discovery of the basic long-term “Laws of …

Anna Bjerger, Luminous/Night, 2018, Oil on aluminium, 85x100 cm, © Anna Bjerger, Courtesy the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

ART CITIES:Stockholm-Anna Bjerger

Anna Bjerger’s paintings, which hide aluminium panels, get down a type of 21st Century photo-based impressionism that pushes far beyond the usual …

Left: Blair Thurman, Double Pumpkin, 2015, Painting - Acrylic on canvas, wood, 149.9 x 66 x 12.1 cm, © Blair Thurman, Courtesy the artist and Peres projects. Right: Blair Thurman, Cheetos & Thanatos, 2017, Painting - Acrylic on canvas on wood, 236.2 x 114.3 x 10.2 cm, © Blair Thurman, Courtesy the artist and Peres projects

ART CITIES:Berlin-Blair Thurman

Blair Thurman’s influences range from Pop art and Minimalism to relics from childhood, popular music, and 1970s cinema. His standardized forms, pulled …

Spencer Sweeney, Self-Portrait, 2018, oil and oil stick on linen, 167.6 x 109.7 cm, © Spencer Sweeney, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Spencer Sweeney

Often referred to as a Downtown Renaissance man, Spencer Sweeney’s ever-shifting and versatile practice moves across genres and styles within visual art, …

Friedrich Kunath, Yes and No, It Was Late, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, Two parts; 60 x 48 x 1 1/2 inches each, © Friedrich Kunath, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe

ART CITIES:N.York-Friedrich Kunath

Inextricably entwining the experience of the ordinary with the sublime, Friedrich Kunath’s work explores interior sensation, recontextualization and abstraction, and oppositional relationships …

Zheng Bo, Weed Plot II, 2016, Commissioned by Sifang Art Museum-Nanjing

ART CITIES:Turin-Zheng Bo

Zheng Bo is an artist, writer, and teacher, committed to socially and ecologically engaged art. He investigates the past and imagines the …

Kamrooz Aram, Green Memorial, 2017, Green marble, linen on mdf, ceramic, brass, 13 × 14 × 14 in, Photo: Kevin Todora, Courtesy of the Artist and Green Art Gallery-Dubai

ART CITIES:N.York-Kamrooz Aram

Over the last few years, Kamrooz Aram’s paintings have sought to rehabilitate the status of ornament and pattern within modernist aesthetics. Challenging …

Left: Ryan Gander, 2000 year collaboration (The Prophet), 2018 Installation, Edition of 3 (+1 A.P.), © Ryan Gander, Courtesy the artist and gb agency-Paris. Right: Ryan Gander, Equivalent Economies and Equivalent Means, 2018 Installation, Edition of 1 (+1 A.P.), © Ryan Gander, Courtesy the artist and gb agency-Paris

ART CITIES:Paris-Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander is living and working in London and Suffolk, UK. Through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, …

Exhibition view: Fred Sandback-Le Fil d’Occam, Galerie Marian Goodman-Paris, 2018

ART CITIES:Paris-Fred Sandback

The American artist Fred Sandback (1943–2003) worked with elastic cord and acrylic yarn to delineate or bifurcate three-dimensional space, creating room-filling volumetric …

Martin Boyce, The Light Pours Out (detail), Painted panel, Photo © Martin Boyce, Esther Schipper Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce’s sculptures, photographs and installations poetically investigate the intersections between art, architecture, design, and nature. Since the beginning of his career, …

Alice Neel, Elizabeth on the Donkey, 1977, Xavier Hufkens Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Brussels-Alice Neel

Alice Neel witnessed a parade of Avant-Garde movements from Abstract Expressionism to Conceptual Art, and refused to follow any of them. Instead, …

Radio Week 3 (6/11-11/11/18, H.E.I. Guide, © H.E.I. Guide

ART CITIES:Basel-Radiophonic Spaces

Over the hundred years since its emergence, the radio medium has been explored by musicians, composers, writers, philosophers and fine artists (and …