“I knew about the gallery before I ever moved to the United States,” says Philippe Vergne, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art who first landed in the U.S. in 1990s. “If you look at the Los Angeles art scene, Regen Projects, together with a handful of galleries, was really the organization that promoted artists… Continue reading Gallery: Regen Projects, Los Angeles
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Seventeen Gallery, London
Co-founder of Seventeen Gallery, Hoyland, came to London from Shropshire to study at Chelsea College of Art & Design. “I wanted to be a ground-breaking performance artist.” Instead, in the late 1990s he went to work at Coskun Fine Art in Knightsbridge, run by Gul Coskun: “High heels, short skirts and Warhols. The hardest-working woman… Continue reading Seventeen Gallery, London
Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, established in 2008, is dedicated to developing a cross-disciplinary, trans-generational gallery programme with off-site projects, in collaboration with artists, filmmakers, critics, art historians, and curators. Its international exhibition programme reflects a variety of opinions and practices as well as Leighton’s associations with American and British experimental cinema, artist’s film and video,… Continue reading Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
T293 Gallery, Naples and Rome
Established in 2002 in an historical building of the Neapolitan centre, in Via dei Tribunali 293, T293 has always been characterised by a keen awareness on artistic practices that are both experimental and conceptually relevant to the current discourse in the field. First conceived as artists’ space dedicated to the support of emerging artists, in… Continue reading T293 Gallery, Naples and Rome
Wilkinson Gallery, London
After cutting his curating teeth running a project space for three years based in the front room of his Paddington Flat, Anthony Wilkinson opened his first gallery behind an unshowy grey façade on Cambridge Heath Road in 1998, at a time when you could still count the number of commercial galleries in the area on… Continue reading Wilkinson Gallery, London
Photograpy: Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood, 1997, Girl Culture, 2002 and Thin, 2006 Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture, gender, fashion, media, wealth, beauty, and consumer culture as a result of her groundbreaking photographic projects (Girl Culture, Fast Forward, and THIN)… Continue reading Photograpy: Lauren Greenfield
Art: Arnar Asgeirsson
Arnar Asgeirsson, Intersection #2, and Intersection, digital print, 50 x 65 cm, 2014 Arnar Ásgeirsson practice involves video works, animations, drawings, installations and sculptures with performative aspects deal with the queston of creative ownership, originality, the relation between high- and low art, reproduction and the differences between creating and copying. Inserting objects as characters into… Continue reading Art: Arnar Asgeirsson
Artist: Simon Denny
Simon Denny, New Management, 2014, Screen Crush Comparison 1, 2013 and TEDxVaduz redux, 2014, Installation Views In a clipping from a 1914 edition of The New York Times, it is reported that dancer Paul Swan collapsed in the middle of the stage during his vaudeville debut. Almost a century later, on the evening that… Continue reading Artist: Simon Denny
Galleries: David Zwirner, New York, London
David Zwirner Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in New York City and London owned by David Zwirner that is active in both the primary and secondary markets. The gallery opened in 1993 on the ground floor of 43 Greene Street in SoHo. In 2002, the gallery moved to 525 West 19th Street in Chelsea.… Continue reading Galleries: David Zwirner, New York, London
Wojciech Kosma, “In the beginning was the word,” Rehearsal II
Wojciech Kosma, In the beginning was the word, Rehearsal II, 2011 and The—family Part 1: Pieta, 2013 It’s not often that we get to spy on each other’s private relationships. Reading a Facebook wall is no substitute for watching a couple alone in bed. Is it even possible for intimacy to be glimpsed from the… Continue reading Wojciech Kosma, “In the beginning was the word,” Rehearsal II
Artist: Pennacchio Argentato
Pennacchio Argentato, Survival Upgrade, 2013 and Dude where is my career?, 2009 In May 2013, footage emerged in the media of a man waving a bloodied meat cleaver in the air whilst reciting the mantra to the camera: ‘You [people] will never be safe’. The phrase formed part of a political message delivered in the… Continue reading Artist: Pennacchio Argentato
Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, The Manhattan Love Suicides: Thrust in Me, 1985
Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, The Manhattan Love Suicides: Thrust in Me, 1985, 35 mm, black-and-white, 35 minutes. The Manhattan Love Suicides are a series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me and I Hate You Now. “Stray Dogs” concerns an artist being followed thru the streets… Continue reading Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, The Manhattan Love Suicides: Thrust in Me, 1985
Photography: Chris Steele-Perkins
Chris Steele-Perkins, Virtual reality display by Subaru, Japan, 1999, Street Children in Luanda, Angola, 1999, Taliban fighters move against Masood’s forces, Afghanistan, 1996 and Trying out artificial limbs at ICRC clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1994 Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his… Continue reading Photography: Chris Steele-Perkins
Hauser & Wirth, Art Gallery
Hauser & Wirth is a gallery of contemporary art and modern masters, with locations in Zurich, London, New York, Somerset and Los Angeles. Hauser & Wirth was founded in Zurich in 1992 by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser. In 1996, the gallery’s first permanent location, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, opened in the former… Continue reading Hauser & Wirth, Art Gallery
The Dark Web: It Sounds Sinister and It Certainly Does Hide a Multitude of Very Dark Dealings
It’s a technological arms race, pure and simple. That’s how Jamie Bartlett, author of The Dark Net, sums up the constantly evolving battle in cyberspace between terrorists and the intelligence agencies trying to discover their hidden communications. “The unbelievable growth in widely available (encryption) software will make their job much harder,” he said. “What it will… Continue reading The Dark Web: It Sounds Sinister and It Certainly Does Hide a Multitude of Very Dark Dealings
Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee
Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee, 3 February 2015 – 12 April 2015 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London The content of the exhibition focuses predominantly on a body of work that Sassen made in Pikin Slee, Suriname in 2013. Pikin Slee is the second-largest village on the Upper Suriname River, deep within the Surinamese rainforest. The… Continue reading Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee
Porn vs. Eroticism
In 1969, Susan Sontag had referred in her article “The Pornographic Imagination” to three domains of pornography: in social history, as a psychological phenomenon, and within the arts. She claims that from the social and psychological standpoint all pornographic texts have the same status – they are documents. As a psychological phenomenon, for example, pornography… Continue reading Porn vs. Eroticism
Galleries: Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned and directed by Larry Gagosian. There are eleven gallery spaces: three in New York; two in London; one in each of Beverly Hills, Rome, Athens, Paris, Geneva and Hong Kong. Gagosian Gallery began in 1979 in Los Angeles. In 1985, the business moved from Los Angeles to… Continue reading Galleries: Gagosian Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery, London
The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long track record for education… Continue reading Whitechapel Gallery, London
Artist: Mark Leckey
Mark Leckey, From the Exhibition, See We Assemble, 2013 Mark Leckeyis a British artist, working with collage art, music and video. His found art and found footage pieces span several videos, most notably Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Industrial Lights and Magic (2008), for which he won the 2008 Turner Prize. Through a multi-disciplinary practice… Continue reading Artist: Mark Leckey