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Always a breath of fresh air during Armory Week, the now five years-old Independent Art Fair returned to its original location of 548 West 22nd Street, the former home of the Dia Foundation. This year the unique fair… Highlights from the 2014 Independent Art Fair
Last week, the art world descended upon Art Basel, Switzerland – arguably the must-see event on the contemporary art calendar – to view 4,000 artist works exhibited by over 300 international galleries. The prestigious fair may have wrapped up for… Art Basel: Highlights
Even though the view of an abandoned house is not too uncommon in Detroit, MI, quite a bit of confusion was stirred by the abrupt, full-scale replica of artist Mike Kelley’s childhood suburban home touring… Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead Arrives In Detroit
Mark Ryden is known for pop surrealist canvases that display a genuine, earnest fascination with historical kitsch. His nostalgic, cryptic compositions allude to scenes from the fantasies of children’s fairytales, but the people and woodland creatures appear… Mark Ryden’s Page-Turning Retrospective
An excerpt from Whitewall’s summer 2013 Design Issue out later this month. The French-born Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is perhaps best known for The Bride (2001), an 18th-century-style candelabra made entirely of tampons. She’s a… Venice: Joana Vasconcelos’ floating Portugal Pavilion
A well-inked block splashing into white cloth in the center of the gallery sets off Matsutani “Gutai Spirit Forever Part II” at Galerie Richard, on view until April 27. The motion and pensive energy is continued by a… Takesada Matsutani Reflects on the Gutai Movement
More than a decade after his YBA days, Gavin Turk’s inaugural exhibition “L’Amour Fou” (on view through March 30 at David Nolan Gallery in New York) is a pensive, compact installation of photographs, videos, sculptures… Gavin Turk explores the Working Class Male in “L’Amour Fou”
The New York Academy of Art’s new exhibition “From Beijing,” a show of oil paintings from the faculty of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) is open now through February 17 and we suggest… Review: Why Realist Chinese Painting Matters
Now through February 24, DIS Magazine is holding an open-studio at The Suzanne Geiss Company to create stock images. Title “DIS IMAGE STUDIO,” the photos taken during the three-week period, which viewers can pop in and out of to… DIS Magazine Redefines Stock Photography at The Suzanne Geiss Company
We visited artist Olaf Breuning just two days since he moved in to his East Village loft, and it already feels quite settled-in. The live-in studio is “a studio first, an apartment second,” he told us. Much of… Creative Space: Olaf Breuning’s New Studio and Video
