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PHOTO:Andres Serrano-Torture

Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work. Since the …

Wael Shawky, Al Araba Al Madfuna Drawings, 2015, © Wael Shawky, Courtesy Lisson Gallery

ART CITIES:Milan-Wael Shawky

  Living and working in Alexandria, Wael Shawky has received international acclaim for his work as an artist and filmmaker, exploring transitional …

Beatriz Milhazes, Floresta virgem em lilás e azul, 2016, Photo: Manuel Aguas & Pepe Schettino, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin/Paris

ART CITIES:Paris-Beatriz Milhazes

Beatriz Milhazes is well known for her colorful, kaleidoscopic collages, prints, paintings and installations which draw on both Latin American cultural imagery …

Francesco Clemente, You and Me, 2016, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Daniel Templon Paris-Brussels

ART CITIES:Paris-Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente explores individual identity, and the various means for its construction by constantly questioning the idea of a singular self. Clemente’s …

Douglas Gordon, I Had Nowhere to Go (Film Still), 2016, Courtesy Galerie Eva Presenhuber

ART CITIES:Zurich-Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon makes videos, installations, photographs and text pieces, using both found and original material, in an attempt to lay bare the …

Hanne Darboven, Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983 (Detail), 1980–83, © Hanne Darboven, Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio-New York

ART-PRESENTATION: Hanne Darboven

Hanne Darboven studied painting from 1962–66 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. In 1966 Darboven moved to New York, …

Ai WeiWei, Fragments of Iron Root, 2015, Photo: Gao Yuan, © Ai Weiwei, Courtesy Lisson Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Ai WeiWei

Ai WeiWei is an inspirational figure for many people both in the West and in China, and both in and outside the …

ART CITIES:London-Animality

Why have animals not been subject of greater interest in contemporary conversations and historical discourses in the arts? With this question as …

Mike Kelley, Balanced by Mass and Worth, 2001, Art © Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All Rights Reserved/Licensed by VAGA-New York NY, Collection of Margaret and Daniel S. Loeb, Courtesy the Foundation and Hauser & Wirth, Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn-Düsseldorf

ART CITIES:N.York-Mike Kelley

Since the late ‘70s, Mike Kelley has produced a body of work that takes as its target notions of taste, morality, authority, …

ART CITIES:London-Jerwood Open Forest

Jerwood Open Forest is an artist-centred initiative established by Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England. The 2016 exhibition examines art in …

Left: Marcel Duchamp, Porte-bouteilles, 1959, Courtesy The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, © Succession Marcel Duchamp/Adagp Paris-2016, Photo: Glenn Steigelman. Right: Robert Rauschenberg, Bovine Shine (Salvage), 1984, Courtesy Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-Paris/Salzburg, © The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Adagp Paris-2016

MIRAGES XXX

    The many years that I’m commuting in Paris and the intervals that I live in the cite are quite large, …

Tom Wesselmann, Left: Smoker #3 (Mouth #17), 1968 - Right: Bedroom Painting #35, 1967-75, Courtesy of The Estate of Tom Wesselmann and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Tom Wesselmann

Tom Wesselmann is one of the leading figures of Pop Art.  He is best known for his career-spanning series, “Great American Nude,” …