Malcolm Morley’s paintings share a connection with Pop Art—but he isn’t a Pop Artist. He created his work using methods similar to the Photorealists—but he isn’t one of those either. The artist just does not fit into any one particular genealogy; this connection to Photorealism, or Superrealism—as he named it—was discarded by the artist in […]

Who is Francis Bacon? A new book from Phaidon aims to answer the entirety of that question in a chatty 120+ page book. Part of a new series, Phaidon Focus, each book revolves around the life of a “renowned modern master” (other titles cover Louise Bourgeois, Donald Judd, Henry Matisse, Cy Twombly and more). It […]

“One senses in Gojowzcyk’s works that they are not exhausted in witty invention. Something higher, something spiritual, is always part of his ‘foolish game of Nothingness,’ though we may not be able to say precisely what it is. It is scarcely more than ephemeral vapor. Everything about Gojowczyk’s work is imbued with humanity,” art historian […]

Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of Chaos Theory, in his unfinished memoir told the story of when, during the early 1960s, he walked past a classroom at Harvard University and noticed a fellow-professor drawing a near-identical diagram to the one he’d recently landed upon in the course of his groundbreaking research. Possessive of his discovery, Mandelbrot […]

Entering LYNCH THAM gallery and looking at the show of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, I could not help it but imagining the tall, thin, slightly bent but all the same elegant old man I met in 1989. It was the year before his death and his son Piero, a dealer, had put together a wonderful, small […]

The haunting photographs in Uri Gershuni’s latest book Yesterday’s Sun pit contemporaneity against nostalgia in creating a series of images that not only capture lost moments in time, but also give the same urgency to the present day. Gershuni follows in the footsteps of William Henry Fox Talbot, one of photography’s pioneers, recapturing his estate […]

A series of black and white surfaces, halfway between paintings and sculptures, articulate the walls in the new spaces of Galleria Franco Noero. Suburban Suprematism is the title of the third exhibition that Andrew Dadson presents in the gallery in Turin. The title itself reveals two of the main sources of Dadson’s artistic research: the […]

Abandoned spaces, preserved materials, and the lingering feeling of a life once lived—these are all necessary components in the video and photography work of Dana Levy. Her new monograph World Order, published for her solo exhibition at the CCA in Tel-Aviv, highlights her interest with the appropriation, display and study of everyday curiosities. The two […]

At the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, artist Christodoulos Panayiotou deciphers the history and sociology of contemporary society. This subtle and astonishing exhibition strikes a wonderful chord. For over ten years, the Cypriot artist Panayiotou has delved into contemporary history through that of the island where he was born, to show the different layers […]

Noah Becker’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1999 will open at the Lodge Gallery on November 7th, 2013 from 7 to 9pm. Many of the works were generated in the last two years out of his studio in Brooklyn. They break the seal of white noise haunting the Lower East Side, where exaltation […]