James Kalm caught up with Sandro at the recent opening of his works on paper show "Sator Arepo" at Steven Harvey. The show is a collection of intimate gem like works on paper that the artist has laboured on for years. For one opinion of why Chia's work should be relevant to today's art cognoscenti, [...]
Ma Yansong “Shanshui City” Exhibition from June 7th to 10th at Wuhao, Beijing Chinese architect Ma Yansong, 38 years old, and clad in black, talks easily about his new project “Shanshui City”, which means City of Mountains and Rivers. His exhibition of architectural models is set in a lush garden of a courtyard house in [...]
Christina Chow is a contemporary artist based in New York. She has shown in New York, Italy, and China, and her work is represented in private collections in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. www.christinachow.net
Why do artists draw? Is it always to scratch down a split of a second of inspiration? Or, something unusual perceived? For the New York artist Mark O’Grady, he draws pictures to remember you. He uses the word “draw “ and not “take” or “make”, as some photos do, thus the action of drawing carries [...]
Marc Quinn, Eye of History, a series of 8 paintings, oil on canvas by G & G Taborda Every year Miami Basel transforms Miami, a city known to be a vacation getaway, hedonist and party animal, into the favorite meeting place for art, fun, and business. Art galleries, collectors, magnates and everybody interested [...]
Curators from the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston participate to an #ArtTalk for a Q&A about James Turrell, the renowned light artist whose works are on view this summer at all three museums.
I first saw this film on the website of the British author Simon Van Booy, right after I read his novel Everything Beautiful Began After. Although this was a different story, I felt the film was part of the novel, as if it were a sequel or a prelude of beauty that began with the [...]
Do you remember Mathew Barney and his eight-year project Cremaster film cycle (1994-2002), exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in 2003? Do you remember that this epic presentation involved biological, mythological and geological references of sex and the creation of the body called Cremaster, which is a muscle of the male body that regulates testicular contractions [...]
The 13th Istanbul Biennial will open on Saturday September 14th and entrance will be free. The organizers had planned to use open urban spaces, but following the anti-government demonstrations in the Taksim Square-Gezi Park area they decided to hold the exhibitions at interior venues. “I believe that by withdrawing from urban public spaces, thus [...]
When you were a child, you were vulnerable and you did not understand the world around you, its harshness, its darkness, where did you go? Did you hide yourself under the bed, behind a book, a corner in the back garden? Did you talk to your frog pet, your fantasy friends, did you listen [...]
