Gagosian is a global network of art galleries specialising in modern and contemporary art with seventeen exhibition spaces worldwide.
It's a huge drop from the nearly 200 galleries that participated in 2019.
The list remains overwhelmingly dominated by people, institutions and movements in the Western world.
Meleko Mokgosi reflects on his ongoing project, Democratic Intuition, within the development of his practice.
The events will feature unlikely cameos including author Malcolm Gladwell and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.
The cover photograph for the informative catalogue that accompanies this dazzling show was taken by Hans Namuth and catches Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler at their wedding lunch on April 6, 1958. Her look is all love; Motherwell, averting his gaze from Namuth, has a vacant, slightly ironic expression. Was it because he'd already been...
Benaam, 'without name,' was always for me a monument to the unnamed victims of ongoing conflict. The black covering is literally a plastic bag covering a body that has expired. The hands stretching out from under the plastic signal a last movement, as does the refuse or tail of rubble—a final expulsion. We Come in Peace, which is also the title...
There isn’t a traditional formula. A lot of times something good happens that makes me realise other things should have happened first. Almost like I built the top floor before the foundation. I have a few formulas that work consistently for me. For example, if I want to make flesh, I have a cold version and a warm version that I know how to make....
I was a little bit empty. When I kept finding myself lost, John would say, 'Let's go to the Strand bookstore together.' I remember focusing on the first image I saw in a rococo-period book, which was a Mars and Venus porcelain by Royal Derbyshire. After seeing that I made a small sculpture called Waterfall [2001]. I included it in a show and my...
In this video, step into the studio of artist Jonas Wood as he reflects on his move to Los Angeles, the importance of the Hammer Museum and his unique approach to creating art. Jonas Wood and his wife, artist and studio mate Shio Kusaka, have donated their works Shio Butterfly Still Life and (Line 65) to be offered as highlights of Artists for the...
Akiko Miki, International Artistic Director of the Benesse Art Site in Naoshima, Japan, presents one of the most unconventional collector's stories in Japan, that of the artist Takashi Murakami, as well as the exhibition she curated in 2016 at the Yokohama Museum of Art on Murakami's collection.
The notion of 'Britishness' has long been underpinned by a tangle of contradictions; evocative of both the aristocratic establishment, and its countercultural underside.
Having gathered professional mourners from around the world to perform their laments in New York in 2016, artist and erstwhile Wallpaper* Guest Editor Taryn Simon is now bringing her groundbreaking artwork to London, opening this evening. We caught up with Simon in midst of rehearsals to talk about grief, performance and ephemerality.
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