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Installation view, Robert Irwin, New Sculpture/Configurations, 11/5-17/7/18, Page Gallery New York, Photo: Toma Baratt, © Robert Irwin

ART CITIES:N.York-Robert Irwin

For over six decades, Robert Irwin) has explored perception as the fundamental issue of art. Irwin, who began his career as a …

Adriana Varejão, Budapeste I, 2013-2018, Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, © Adriana Varejão, Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery

ART CITIES:Venice-Adriana Varejão

One of the most original voices in Contemporary Brazilian art, Adriana Varejão’s diverse practice comprises painting, sculpture, photography and installation. The artist …

Megan Rooney, Others got wings for flying, 2017, Tramway. Choreography by Andrew Graham Performed by Megan Rooney & Andrew Graham, Photo: Keith Hunter

ART CITIES:London-Park Nights 2018

Park Nights is the Seprentine’s experimental, interdisciplinary live platform, sited with the Galleries annual architectural commission, the Serpentine Pavilion, designed this year …

Installation view of Fred Wilson: Afro Kismet, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, 23/3-27/4/2018, Photo: Courtesy Pace Gallery, © Fred Wilson, Courtesy Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson is known for repurposing objects and artifacts to lead people to see them in a different way. His installations typically …

Dan Graham

ART CITIES: Los Angeles Dan Graham

A conceptual artist, architect, photographer, performer, video artist, and critic, Dan Graham began in the 1960s to reflect on the artistic system, …

Ernesto Neto, GaiaMotherTree, 2018, Zurich Main Station, Photo: Mark Niedermann, Courtesy Fondation Beyeler

ART CITIES:Zurich-Ernesto Neto

Ernesto Neto is one of Latin America’s most important contemporary artists. Spirituality, humanism, and ecology are among his principal concerns. His work …

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, 2016-18, Photo: Wolfgang Volz, © 2018 Christo

ART CITIES:London-Christo

Christo’s first large-scale public sculpture in the UK floats on The Serpentine lake in Hyde Park. The work consists of 7,506 horizontally …

Voice of America

ART CITIES:N.York-Voice of America

Vito Acconci’s Installation at the Portland Center for Contemporary Arts “Voice of America” dates back to 1975. Two over-sized wooden chairs occupy …

ART CITIES:London-Beth Letain

Coming from a background in science, Beth Letain’s approach to painting is driven by an ‘imperative. The artist earned a BA from …

Viewers interacting with Franz West, Passstücke (mit Video mit Verwendungstips), 1996, during the exhibition Franz West at David Zwirner-New York, 2014, © 2018 Archive Franz West

ART CITIES:N.York-This Is Not a Prop

In the early 1970s Franz West began making small-scale assemblages incorporating found materials such as cardboard, bandages, and wire, which he then …

Raphaela Vogel, Installation view, Ultranackt, view on Kopfschuss, 2018, Kunsthalle-Basel 2018, Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel, Courtesy of the artist; BQ-Berlin and Galerie Gregor Staiger-Zurich

ART CITIES:Basel-Raphaela Vogel

Raphaela Vogel’s work is located in the meeting of sculpture, video installation and performance and is characterized by an acute study of …

Martha Diamond, Cityscapes

ART CITIES:N.York-Martha Diamond

Born and educated in New York, Martha Diamond has developed an unmistakable personal language from the forms and sensations of the city. …

Walter Swennen, Ceux qui sont ici, sont d’ici, 2013, Oil, acrylic on canvas, 136 x 150 cm, © Walter Swennen/Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann, Herzogenrath, 2018,

ART CITIES:Vienna-Class Reunion

Gabriele and Wilhelm Schürmann started collecting art in the mid1980s. Concentrating on context oriented positions informed by Institutional Critique and political art, …

Jason Martin, As Yet Untitled (Ultramarine blue), 2015, Mixed media on aluminium, 127 x 98 x 15 cm, © Jason Martin, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Jason Martin

Many painters across history have focused their attention on the sculptural potential of painting, but that hasn’t stopped Jason Martin experimenting in …

Asger Jorn, Jeux nocturne (recto) (Night Games), 1940, Oil on canvas, 105 x 171 cm, Canica Art Collection / SMK Copenhagen © VG Bild Kunst

ART CITIES:Hamburg-Asger Jorn

For Asger Jorn, who was aligned with the CoBrA Movement and later the Situationist International, art was an expression of life, of …

John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015 (still). Three-channel HD video installation, 7.1 sound, color; 48:30 min, © Smoking Dogs Films, Courtesy Lisson Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah has been committed to giving a voice and a presence to the legacy of the African diaspora in Europe, filling …

Installation view: Batia Suter - Radial Grammar. LE BAL-Paris, 2018, Courtesy LE BAL and Martin Argyroglo

ART CITIES:Paris-Batia Suter

The exhibition that are on presentation at LE BAL are characterized with the vitality and truth of our era. As an artist …