“I began to see, feel and understand its effect, I was becoming sensitive to light. Being patient in such a transitional space began to amplify every detail. Everything became significant.” –Jamie Hawkesworth

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Dia Center was founded in New York City in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, Heiner Friedrich, and Helen Winkler to help artists achieve visionary projects that might not otherwise be realized because of scale or scope. (more…)

Eric Fischl Complications from an Already Unfulfilled Life showcases images of American society as seen through the lens of middle and upper class malaise, where figures routinely share space on his canvases, trapped in the midst of strained exchanges.

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The exhibition sheds light on a very specific question: is there place for queer people in the house of God? And if their place exists, where in the church are these seats to be found? Artists Florian Hetz, Birk Thomassen, Laurence Philomène, and Sophia Wallace.

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Exploring the modular architecture of social housing projects, Stephen Willats spotlights forms of individual creative adaptation that defy the uniformity and functionality of the spaces.

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Alice Rohrwacher was born in 1982 in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy. She is a writer and director, known for Le Meraviglie (The Wonder), 2014, Corpo Celeste (Heavenly Body), 2011 (more…)

In the oscillation between microcosm and macrocosm, chaos and order, dissonance and harmony, disintegration and structure, is the core of this group exhibition presenting the works of five artists, Monika Grzymala, Anastasia Ax, Alina Chaiderov, Henrik Håkansson, and Serina Erfjord.

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Prager’s works are in collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Kunsthaus Zürich, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Focusing on the contrast between the modern and the primitive, the technological and the tribal, and society with nature, Edoardo Caimi creates imaginary based on the short circuit between these two worlds.

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Erwin Olaf’s women subjects are staged in highly composed images of formal perfection while instilling a sense of quiet drama into his scenes, resulting in an air of ambiguity and narrative uncertainty.

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Michael Crouser just published his third book of photography, Mountain Ranch, out on Texas University Press, with a forward by Gretel Ehrlich. This series captures the disappearing tradition of a different kind of heroism of the romanticized American West.

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Echoing traditional Dutch paintings, Hellen van Meene’s photography find glimpses into intimate inner worlds and bring their fragility to light in ways that are sometimes surreal and unsettling.

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Lu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. (more…)

The highly choreographed nature of Alex Prager’s work embodies a visual vocabulary and style that has become her own, a familiar yet uncanny imagery depicting worlds synthesized of fiction and reality.

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Darkest Hour, this pearl of stylish and emotive documentary was directed by Thomas Ralph, just after the initial Brexit referendum nearly three years ago (more…)

Sinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space.

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For the first time since the opening of Collezione Maramotti in October 2007, ten rooms on the second floor of the permanent display will be rehung to present some of the projects shown during the first ten years of activity (more…)

With works from 1960–2014, the exhibition intends to act as an extensive overview of the career of Jannis Kounellis, tracing his interest in everyday materials, conjuring ideas of creation and destruction.

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The infectious Brazilian stylings of Grupo Corpo. The return of William Christie’s ensemble Les Arts Florissants. Superstar director Ivo van Hove reimagines an obscure Czech opera. Mark Morris interprets the Beatles…

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This meticulous reprint of Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s Nothing Personal, explores the contradictions of the American experience, juxtaposing subjects from celebrities to mental asylum patients.

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Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz on September 25, 1903, in Dvinsk, Russia. In 1913 his family left Russia and settled in Portland, Oregon. Rothko attended Yale University, New Haven, on a scholarship from 1921 to 1923. (more…)

The curiosity with which humans observe each other is insatiable. This exhibition brings this presumably universal characteristic into focus showcasing treasures of the Federal Photography Collection. Artists Renate Bertlmann, Lillian Birnbaum, Paul Kranzler, Friedl Kubelka, and others.

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Urbanautica is an independent journal about visual anthropology and cultural landscapes that came from humble beginnings, and has now a spread in 4 continents and thousands of followers.

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The stillness of these images is not serene however; rather it is complex, charged, bristling with possibility. Graham Little’s figures possess an introspective air that resists even the most probing gaze.

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The Walker Art Center is a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences. Focusing on the visual, performing, and media arts of our time, the Walker takes a global, multidisciplinary, and diverse approach (more…)

Alongside a selection of images from the artist’s personal and commissioned work, Foam is also premiering two of Tyler Mitchell’s video works: Idyllic Space and Chasing Pink, Found Red. With these audiovisual installations, the artist explores a sense of play and childlike freedom for black youths.

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The exhibition Josef Šíma: The Road to Le Grand Jeu presents the early work as well as masterpieces of one of the most influential figures of modern art. The Waldstein Riding School of the National Gallery Prague will host it from 19 April 2019.

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Ingel Vaikla is a visual artist and filmmaker from Estonia. She studied photography in Estonian Academy of Fine Arts (BA) and film in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent (MA). In her work she questions the relationship between architecture and its users, and the representation of architecture in camera based mediums. (more…)

“I am interested in ephemeral architecture, in objects generally regarded as bad taste, but which have never been that for me, in objects charged with desires, dreams, collective memories…” –Luigi Ghirri

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One of the most important artists of our era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades. From techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer, the evolution of his music has coincided with his life journeys.
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