Simon Lee Gallery

Donna Huanca says her deep and enduring artistic interest in the female body stems from a simple fact: She has one. She also says she's tired of seeing female bodies brutalized, tired of viewing them via the male gaze. 'In art history, women have been depicted in such a vulnerable way. This is a new way of looking at the feminine form, and in...

According to a photo posted on Facebook by Christina Li, guest curator of artist Shirley Tse's exhibition at the pavilion, a notice in English and Italian at the entrance reads: 'Due to unforeseen circumstances, the exhibition Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice will be closed on June 12, 2019. Please excuse us for the inconvenience.'...

Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo has always been an experimental painter. Having set aside the paintbrush in favor of his hands early on in his near-two-decade-long career, and later moving to more industrial methods using tools and resins, he rejected paint altogether in 2008.

Es ist bemerkenswert, wie viele warmherzige Umschreibungen Museumsdirektor Sam Keller für eine Kunst findet, die zunächst so kühl wirkt. Ihm gehe es mit Rudolf Stingel wie bei einer Wanderung in den Bergen, wenn man denkt, die Sonne sei jetzt aber wirklich untergegangen, man dann einen neuen Gipfel erreicht und sie wieder scheinen sieht. Der...

In an interview with Modern Painters, Eric N. Mack described Misa Hylton-Brim, his 2018 solo show at Simon Lee Gallery in London, as an outfit: 'a diaphanous dress paired with a supportive combat boot.' Hylton-Brim, the stylist who put together iconic looks for rappers Missy Elliott and Lil' Kim, is widely considered to be responsible for the...

VOGUE POLSKA debuted in February 2018 and was instantly embroiled—perhaps by design—in heated debates around Polish national identity and self-image. When Condé Nast announced the magazine's forthcoming launch in 2017, the news was received by many in Poland as confirmation that they had truly arrived as equals in the eyes of the...

When Donald Judd asked Yun Hyong-Keun what art is, the latter responded that art is 'artless and bland.' To some viewers of Yun's paintings—which have been associated with Korean Dansaekhwa—these words may serve as curious descriptors of the late artist's striking, monochromatic canvases.

'It’s kind of like death… but brightly coloured' Leelee Kimmel jokingly responds when asked to describe her vivid, abstract, somewhat dizzying creations. 'A lot of the darkness in me comes out in my work, though it may not be obvious.' It takes time to understand the intricacies of somebody’s brain, she argues – but feeling its energy can be...

As the world grapples with frightening new levels of terrorism, racism and global political unrest, George Condo says he has ironically never felt more inspired. The artist, best known for his fantastical depictions of debauchery and comedic contoured caricatures of subjects both real and imaginary, explains that the current unstable environment...

'The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue', quipped the American writer Dorothy Parker. I'd like to think that Parker, whose poetry was once dismissed as 'flapper verse' in the New York Times, would have appreciated Paulina Ołowska's Amoresques: An Intellectual Cocktail of Female Erotica, a solo exhibition that...

German-French abstract painter Hans Hartung is getting his first major New York exhibition since 1975, when the artist was given a retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was panned by critics, notably The New York Times ' Hilton Kramer who asked: 'Why Hartung?' A selection of the late artist's work is currently on display in...

Fifty years after its first outing, the artist reprises his legendary Walking Sculpture performance in the US. Perched on a quiet bend of the Hudson's east bank, Cold Spring, New York, is a far cry from Turin. On a recent Saturday afternoon, however, the town's Main Street hosted an event originating in the Piedmont capital 50 years ago, along...

George Condo is a New York-based artist whose career launched in the East Village in the early 1980s. During this time, he also worked in Andy Warhol's factory before moving to Los Angeles and holding his first solo exhibition in 1983. In the decades that followed, Condo has emerged as one of the world's preeminent painters and sculptors. In 2017...

While the paintings are up on the wall in Merlin Carpenter's show Do Not Open Until 2081, there isn't much to see. They're covered in cardboard, packed and ready for transport. It's a sight familiar to many curators and art handlers - packing tape, stickers indicating inventory details and dates of transit. The general public may be forgiven for...

Before his death in 2014, Ryuji Tanaka's work had taken several directions, and yet with each new adjustment in the course of his practice he retained some element of the work he had made before. His point of departure, which remained prominent throughout his career, was nihonga-Japanese-style paintings-which he studied at the Kyoto Municipal...

Lisbon is building a very strong case for getting on the list of global contemporary art hubs. After a deep economic recession, Portugal is finally emerging from the doldrums; the coastal country is not only opening up towards southern Europe, but is also reaching out again across the globe. Investors from Western Europe and new businesses are...

Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno —the first major U.S. exhibition about the American poet, artist, activist and muse John Giorno—has opened simultaneously across 13 locations in New York City. I ♥ John Giorno is a work of art by Giorno's husband, the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. The exhibition is a celebration of the life and work of...

I learned early on from the eats, such as Allen Ginsburg and William Burroughs—and the Pop artists too—that archives were very important. This was around the late 1950s, or the beginning of the '60s. So, I just saved all of my work. My parents had a house in Roslyn Heights, Long Island, and for fifty years I brought everything I made...

The California African American Museum is teeming with ghosts. They haunt its lobby atrium, which is airy and still, bleached out from sunlight seeping in through a canopy of skylights onto stark white walls.

The American artist Jenny Holzer, known for challenging texts imposed on urban settings, has been chosen as the next contemporary artist to tackle one of the most privileged spaces in the UK, the baroque splendour of Blenheim Palace.

The late-1900s movement, arte povera, drew upon the use of unconventional materials and methods. Its literal meaning translates to 'poor art' in Italian, and considers disposable and unextraordinary items to take on commercialization. In a visually stunning short documentary by Mike Nybroe, the work of one of one of the movement's leading artists...

The artist Paulina Olowska works with found materials that include the work of her Polish forbears. In 2015, her The Mother An Unsavoury Play in Two Acts and an Epilogue, adapted Witkacy's play The Mother (1924) and set the resulting piece in a gallery at Tate Modern. Last weekend, the Kitchen presented a three-performance run of Slavic...

Sometimes an artwork responds to the world outside; sometimes the world outside responds to an artwork; and sometimes neither knows of the other, yet each is enhanced by it all the same. Such a moment occurred recently when one could march down Piccadilly, in protest with and in the presence of tens of thousands of women, and turn into a side...

A show about light: a light show – what might a curator put in? Just about all art concerned with making the world visible in some sense speaks of light, the very condition in which it was made.