Is gallery space still worth paying rent for or will Instagram replace it all? Art Basel director Marc Spiegler gives us the answers Source: MARC SPIEGLER  for  Thinking about galleries—individually and as an art-world sector—is a constant inside Art Basel. The organisation was founded by a handful of Basel-based dealers and remains very much driven by gallerists. […]

There is a perceptible, unidentifiable energy that permeates the Picasso Sculpture exhibition on the fourth floor of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Phones snap pictures; viewers speak in enthusiastic whispers. And amongst the excited crowd: an invaluable collection of sculptures that catalogues 62 years of an artist’s life. The layout of the exhibit guides […]

Throughout my career as an art critic, the choice of medium artists make has always been a central issue. In the 1970s photography was questioned. Was it an artistic medium or only a craft? Then came performance and installation art followed by video art. Luckily it seems that these days anything can be considered an […]

London-Pace London is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by John Hoyland, Anthony Caro and Kenneth Noland, celebrating the friendship and connections between the three artists. The exhibition will be on view in the ground floor gallery of 6 Burlington Gardens from 20 November to 16 January 2016. This exhibition is the first presentation […]

German Artist, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl spoke with Savas Boyraz about his recent work “Back Drop” at Open Source Gallery. Steyerl’s teenage friend Andrea Wolf, who became a martyr of the Kurdish liberation movement when killed in Çatak, Turkey in 1998, serves as a driving force in her recent work. Steyerl’s visits to Kurdistan […]

Opening on Friday 22th January, 2016 h 7:00 pm  January 22 – April 23, 2016  BOCCANERA  via Milano 128, Italy With modern communications, you can be anywhere – you have the world at your fingertips. This is also the everyday reality of the upcoming generation of artists in the Czech Republic. This is also a connecting […]

October 29, 2015 – Copenhagen, Denmark Synesthesia EXP launches le déserteur, the first native exhibition on iPad le déserteur is the first native exhibition on iPad. The iOS app is available on the App Store from October 29, 2015. Its mission is to provide the experience of being at an art and literature exhibition on […]

2015 edition has more art from the Midwest to Mexico For its 14th edition, Art Basel in Miami Beach (3-6 December) is emphasising its “Americas” credentials, encompassing the length and breadth of its vast home turf. Noah Horowitz, who in July was poached fr om directing New York’s Armory Show to fill Art Basel’s new […]

“…er würde ihr damals nicht wie ein Teufel erschienen sein, wenn er ihr nicht, bei seiner ersten Erscheinung, wie ein Engel vorgekommen wäre.” The last line of Heinrich von Kleist’s story ‘The Marquise of O’ seems appropriate to the subject matter of Federico Solmi’s dynamic new show at Postmasters Gallery on Franklin Street in Lower […]

Interview with Yoko Ono by Abraham Lubelski Yoko Ono: The criterion of me selecting John’s work for the show was that artistically it was good. It had to be artistically good. With both of us being an artist that comes first. I am very happy there is going to be a John Lennon art exhibition […]