Contemporary Arts
Robert Wilson may be best known as an avant-garde theater director and designer, collaborating with everyone from William S. Burroughs to Philip Glass and Marina Abramovic, but he is also a video artist, creating work that plays with our perceptions of time and duration. Wilson’s “Video Portraits” (also known as VOOM portraits) are slow-...
When Fernando Botero had his first solo exhibition, in 1951 at the small Leo Matiz Gallery, in Bogotá, his work was so heterogeneous that visitors initially assumed they were looking at a group show. The young Colombian artist’s watercolors, drawings, and oils depicting local bars and brothels and prominent Colombian figures borrowed as...
The brainchild of Juan Garcia, a Melbourne based entrepreneur and passionate art collector, artFido is an extremely well presented and highly advanced online sales and auction platform for everyday collectors to browse, search for, and buy and sell art. Launched on the 22nd of May, the site will also provide a place for commercial art...
Though long absent from the New York art scene, Frederick James Brown, the Georgia-born, Chicago-bred expressionist painter who died on May 5 at age 67 from cancer in Scottsdale, Arizona, carved out a significant niche in the early days of SoHo.The painter’s giant loft on Wooster Street possessed a grand piano, and the jazz- and blues-...
PARIS — Daniel Buren's exhibition "Excentrique(s), travail in situ" for Monumenta, has been very well received by the public — and ARTINFO — and newly elected French president François Hollande even dropped by to see the exhibition the day it opened. Since then, Buren has made a slight change to the exhibition, allowing visitors to go...
Following a party for the 30th birthday of Antony Gormley's son Ivo, held at the sculptor's Norfolk home West Acre High House, rumours are spreading that the site might be soon turned into a foundation dedicated to the artist's life and work. According to the Evening Standard, construction work has already started on the 1,000-...
A video artist, photographer, and rogue stylist known for her underground zine “Fashion Fashion,” Whitney Biennial participant K8 Hardy recreated all the smoke and mirrors of a professional runway presentation this Sunday in an immersive performance-cum-fashion show at the Whitney. Hovering ambiguously between avant-garde design and “...
Bonhams Australia will hold an intensive series of six auctions over a three day period in Sydney between the 27th of May and the 29th of May which include a large and varied range of fine art, jewellery and antiques.The first sale will take place on the 27th of May and is focussed on fine furniture, decorative arts and Asian arts....
TUNIS — More than a year after the fall of former president Ben Ali, contemporary art is gathering momentum in Tunisia. Several initiatives have started across the country despite the new government's conservatism that demonstrate a fresh energy crystallised by the launch of Carthage Contemporary, an umbrella program located in Carthage'...
More than a year after the fall of former president Ben Ali, contemporary art is gathering momentum in Tunisia. Several initiatives have started across the country despite the new government's conservatism. They demonstrate a fresh energy crystallised by the launch of Carthage Contemporary, an umbrella program located in Carthage's...
