Leading lights - Artists
Artwork by Eric N. Mack has disappeared from Desert X and no one really knows where it went
Desert X this year hasn’t gone off without a hitch, but it is a biennale featuring artworks mostly outside in a desert. There is plenty of potential for issues at […]
Deconstructed devices become art through the lens of one man’s camera
There’s a perverse pleasure that comes from taking something apart or seeing exactly how things tick. However, most people are brave enough to disassemble their favourite devices or day-to-day items […]
Kara Walker next to transform the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
In a press release on March 11th, Tate Modern alongside Hyundai Motor announced that New York-based American artist Kara Walker will create the fifth annual Hyundai Commission for the Turbine […]
Basquiat show sells out before it even opens
A survey of about 70 artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat recently opened at the Brant Foundation’s newly-remodelled gallery space in New York’s East Village but if you didn’t snatch up a […]
Ai Weiwei and 30 tons of buttons? The possibilities are endless…
Have you ever wondered how many buttons are in a ton? Fair, me either. However, it’s somewhere around 9 million. As of a few days ago, it seems artist Ai […]
In memoriam: American “pop-realist” painter Don Nice
American painter Don Nice, often described as a “pop-realist” whose unique relationship with the American landscape and iconography defied categories, has died at age 86. He is perhaps best known […]
Artist interview: Clemence Vazard and #monpremierharcelement
Clemence Vazard is a French artist who, in 2016, began working with women to record the story of their first experience of harassment. She brought the stories together to create […]