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The current exhibition at Galería Alberto Senderos in Buenos Aires, Argentina, presents Carrie Schneider’s work Burning House. For this piece, Carrie Schneider filmed and photographed a house that stands on fire during different seasons, weather, and times of day. To achieve this, Schneider built a small house for each setting and set it on fire. [...]

In this video we have a look at Brazilian artist Laura Lima’s work for the new curatorial program Sexta Sur of Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC). For the love of dissent is the title of the first series of exhibitions held as part of the Sexta Sur project. The artwork of Laura Lima takes [...]

Engaging Perspectives: New Art From Singapore, an exhibition organized by the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore’s new art center at Gillman Barracks, presents artworks by the artists Ang Song Nian, Black Baroque Committee, Mike Chang, Nah Yong En, Bruce Quek, Singapore Psychogeographical Society, Frayn Yong, Jasper Yu, and Zhao Renhui. The nine artists [...]

Splendid Playground is the title of a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York that highlights the work of Japan’s avant-garde collective Gutai. Gutai (具体) was founded by Yoshihara Jirō in 1954. From 1954 until 1972, the Gutai group totaled 59 Japanese artists, who explored new art forms combining performance, painting, and interactive environments. [...]

In 2013 Martin Kippenberger, the enfant terrible of the German art scene, would have celebrated his 60th birthday. On this occasion, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin is dedicating a special exhibition to the artist, who died in 1997 due to an excessive life. The show characterizes Martin Kippenberger as an artist, whose work and life cannot [...]

Ferdinand Hodler is considered as the best-known Swiss painter of the 19th century. Hodler is known for his portraits and nature and landscape images, especially those of the Swiss mountains and lakes. Hodler’s paintings had a major influence on Switzerland’s picture and perception of itself. At the same time, he was one of the most [...]

The exhibition Chicken by Jake & Dinos Chapman at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiyv (Ukraine) presents the specially produced new installation The Sum of all Evil, that represents a synthesized reflection upon the central themes such as the Holocaust, violence, and death. The Chapman brother’s fascination with sharp subversive humor and unbridled aggression is apparent throughout [...]

With the exhibition Lichtenstein. A Retrospective, the Tate Modern in London currently presents a full-scale retrospective of one of the great American artists of the 20th century. Together with artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein is one of the most famous protagonists of American pop art. The show brings [...]

Tony Oursler’s exhibition agentic iced etcetera at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, Ukraine is the first major solo exhibition by the artist in Eastern Europe. Tony Oursler: agentic iced etcetera presents specially produced new works, including a Ukrainian speaking installation, as well as some of the most iconic pieces of the artist. The New York–based artist [...]

Yoko Ono: For most people she is just the widow of John Lennon, or even the woman who broke up the Beatles. What most people don’t know is her work as an avant-garde artist. With the large retrospective Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind Show. Eine Retrospektive, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main in Germany wants to [...]

This video provides you with a walkthrough of artist David Choong Lee’s current solo exhibition titled Organic Updates at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. David Choong Lee presents large altar-like wall sculptures. The multidimensional murals combine abstract and figurative elements. He’s been influenced by such diverse sources as Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Sukdo, and underground [...]

Singapore Art Week in January was packed with art events: the international art fair Art Stage Singapore 2013, a myriad of exhibition openings in art institutions, private galleries, and art centers such as Gillman Barracks. The Singapore Art Museum contributed even two highlights to the arts calendar: the President’s Young Talents show, featuring Singapore’s most [...]

Gay Town is American actor, filmmaker, writer and artist James Franco’s second solo show in Berlin with the gallery Peres Projects. The exhibition that is presented in a temporary project space on the historic Karl-Marx-Allee 87 explores a variety of themes that are central to James Franco’s artistic practice: adolescence, public and private persona, stereotypes, [...]

This video provides you with a walkthrough of Outsider Art Fair 2013 in New York on the occasion of the opening reception of the fair. Outsider Art Fair was founded by Sanford Smith in 1993 and features Outsider, Self-Taught and Folk Art. The first 15 years, the fair was held at New York’s Puck Building. [...]

As part of his Sentient City Survival Kit (2010), the American artist and scientist Mark Shepard developed an iPhone navigation app called Serendipitor. The Serendipitor app calculates the ideal route to get you from A to B, but unlike the usual navigation apps, it doesn’t offer you the most direct and fastest way to the [...]