Contemporary Arts
PARIS — One of Paris's newest galleries is giving a young Brazilian artist his French debut: the recently opened 11bis has chosen Bruno Dunley for the third show at its space in the Marais, which will also mark the Brazilian painter's first exhibition in France. Maria do Mar Guinle, director of the See Art + Advisory firm — which...
Whether it’s the mission to bring his $25 million dollar “Train” to the High Line or calling his own artwork “empty,” artist Jeff Koons never ceases to be an art-world enigma. His appropriated sculptures, from “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” porcelain pieces to the enormous “Balloon Flower (Magenta),” incite both staunch criticism and...
Early reports from Art HK 2012 suggest that the Australian galleries involved in the fair have been doing a roaring trade in the work of both Australian and international artists. As of Friday afternoon, Tolarno Galleries reported that they were close to a complete sell-out of their solo exhibition of sculptures and paintings by...
Busy times for Tracey Emin. To coincide with the opening of her solo show at Margate's Turner Contemporary next weekend, the former YBA is launching a new design of the London underground map. 18 million of them will be distributed this summer during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.In typically introspective manner, Emin has adorned the...
Gallery Barry Keldoulis (Sydney), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (Sydney), Anna Schwartz Gallery (Melbourne/Sydney) are exhibiting within the main section of the fair.Exhibiting in the Asia One section are Tolarno Galleries (Melbourne), Nellie Castan Gallery (Melbourne), Tristian Koenig (Melbourne), Damien Minton Gallery (Sydney), Tim Olsen...
LONDON — Last year, Human Rights Watch's director of emergencies Peter Bouckaert and his team spent months in Libya documenting and securing the intelligence archive of the Libyan state, which was threatened both by bombshells and the popular fury that followed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's demise. They excavated ruined security buildings...
In “Space Program: Mars,” Tom Sachs fills the Park Avenue Armory with a kind of childhood fantasy gesamptkunstwerk — a collection of space travel modules impeccably replicated in everyday materials. The artist takes a clear joy in the work. In his role as mission commander, he orders an army of assistants to make repairs, give...
What do you get when you throw 10 of the world’s best photographers into a single city for a weeklong binge of documenting? This isn’t one of Ryan McGinley’s summer camp sessions, that’s for sure. The historic Magnum photography collective jumped into the 21st century with an Internet-enabled road trip as part of its “Postcards From...
Yayoi Kusama is a unique artist, and her autobiography is a unique, if not to say weird, book. "Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama" (translated by Ralph McCarthy, University of Chicago Press) is not so much an in-depth narrative of a life as an assertion of Kusama's artistic identity — part memoir, part critique, part...
A Banksy stencil of a parachuting rat has been destroyed in the Australian city of Melbourne by a builder who drilled a hole through the work to install a bathroom pipe.Painted around 15 years ago, the parachuting rat stencil located in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran is one of the last remaining Banksys in Melbourne and has been given...
