Today's art world

The Corona Virus has also had a big impact on the art world. Museums, galleries and art fairs worldwide postponed their shows because of the outbreak. Many have created virtual exhibitions.

Like most sectors, the Art world is hit hard financially too. The Met Museum in New York announced it could lose a hundred million dollars. Some galleries inevitably will go under. Employees are being…

There are many open calls out there and they can be great, and more often than not you have to pay to take part. Sometimes there is a genuine reason for this, but be careful it’s not a vanity project. An art gallery charges artists fees to exhibit their work. A publisher or magazine has the artists pay to have their work published. A prize is awarded to you only if you bought your place on the…

What is driving us to be creative?

It could be the view of a landscape, the look in one’s eyes or a phrase in a song, which triggers something in the soul to get active and to bring something new under the sun. What is driving us to create artworks? New evidence and theories in different disciplines like genetics and archaeology were found and provide a new platform for further examinations on this subject.

Venus Of Tan Tan…

Art and science are closely connected, both are human attempts to understand and describe the world around us. The two disciplines have always influenced each other. The person most people will be thinking of here is probably Leonardo da Vinci, who is known for his scientific research as well as his art. However, there are many famous examples. Dürer ’s celestial maps gained momentum as a…

Skarstedt Gallery Booth F1

Works by Georg Baselitz, Eric Fischl, Keith Haring, Steven Parrino, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Günther Uecker

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Works by Kasimir Malevich, Julio González, Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner, Ben Nicholson, Theo Van Doesburg, Kurt Schwitters & Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

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All Women Art shows

It’s commonly observed that if you ask someone to name ten famous female artists, they struggle to do so. Lately, we have seen a significant rise in all-female art exhibitions. Still, there have seen far more all-male shows, but they were not presented as such. Do, however, shows made to support the sisterhood inadvertently risk ghettoizing female artists? Do they relegate women to the…

Art is supposed to be serious. Right? Wrong, art has always contained fun and jokes. But what is the role of humor in the contemporary art world? The fact is that it pops up everywhere in art today. Humorous art became widespread with Dadaism and the appearance of ready-mades. Thereby irreversibly changing art forever.  These artists tried to disrupt the social conventions of the intellectual,…

Instagram can be an extension of how an artist represents him or her self, but also as an extension of their art practice itself. Instagram seems to have managed to democratize the art world by allowing every artist the same chance of exposure. Artists now have new ways of seeing and creating the kind of content that might be shared. They can check in on how their content is being evaluated…

Gemini  Booth E5 Works by Daniel Buren, Julie  Mehretu and Richard Serra

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Works by Paula Modersohn Becker, Jean Fautrier, Pablo Picasso, Anselm Kiefer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Eva Aeppli Antonita Pies, and Jean Miro

Stephen Friedman gallery

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Works by Mamma Andersson, Melvin Edwards, Andreas Eriksson, Denzil Forrester, Tom Friedman, Wayne…

Although the main exhibition “May You Live in Interesting Times”, curated by London’s Hayward Galleries Ralph Rugoff, at the Arsenale was very disappointing. It was just a selection of works trying to make a big impact with no apparent connection to each other.

However, there was plenty of good work on show at some of the other locations and pavilions.

Belgian Pavilion Installation “Mondo Cane”…

Artists who work in different disciplines

Some creative creators work simultaneously in completely two or more different art forms.

The list of musicians, who went to art school is long. It includes John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Ronnie Wood, Syd Barrett, Keith Richards, David Byrne, Kanye West, Pete Townsend, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Chuck D, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. Other musicians, like Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Paul…

At the Jumex Museum in Mexico City Michael Smith’s cheeky installation “Imagine The View From Here” just came down. A deeply mocking and heavily irony-laden piss-take on corporate culture meets art world curatorial practices meets real estate development.

His fake companies and his false personae of “Mike Smith” (an aging millionaire with disposable income to invest after he retires ) complete with mock videos and artificial corporate promotional installations that wouldn’t look out of place at all in any convention center conference.

It all purports to sell timeshare lofts at the Jumex Museum itself with 24/7 curatorial services included. The levels of art-meets-life-meets-art etc ad nauseam perfectly fit the current international art explosions economic and corporate cultural climate and thus seems almost to close to the (probable) truth.

  Also, I was very impressed with a gallery showing works selected from the museum’s permanent collection.

Museo Nacional de la Estampa

Demian Flores, an exceptional printmaker from Juchitan, Oaxaca shows a wide selection of woodblocks, woodblock prints, lithographs, etchings, silkscreen prints, and works that combine these techniques at the Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City.

Many works play with combining referents from Pre-Columbian history with those from modernity: Aztec era references collide with contemporary imagery. Time is compressed and the past is refracted with the present. In one series of lithographs he has taken the images of 14 etchings that were made in Spain in the 1600s that were modeled on the writings of conquistadors and Flores has added in found images from the Aztec era, from WW1 and WW2, as well as some from more contemporary social conflicts.

These works offer surreal a-temporal narratives slyly conflating the kind of blatant racism, power politics and overtly fascistic social control mechanisms from the early days of colonialism with those of both the 20th century and by inference with those of today.

  -Nikolas Soren Goodich, March 2019 http://www.nikolasgoodich.com

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Works by Andreas Angelidakis, Ariana Papadimetropoulos, and Kyle Vu-Dunn

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works by Nevin Aladag, Miriam Böhm, Mariechen Danz, Axel Geis, Karl Haendel, Gregor Hildebrandt, John McAllister, and David Renggli

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Works by Carroll Dunham, Mel Bochner, David Row, Stanley Whitney, Cecily Brown, Elizabeth Payton, Terry Winters, and Cameron Jamie

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Will the new director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam be female?

Two artistic directors prematurely left the museum in recent time: Ann Goldstein (left in 2013) and Beatrix Ruf (in 2017). The former because of she of communication problems, the latter because of accusations of conflicts of interest within the art market. Who could be her successor? It’s unlikely they will go for a foreigner again, and maybe not for a woman again either. But who…

Finding Home through painting in the Arab world

The mission of art is to enrich human heritage with creative insights. This can contribute in however a small way be of great significance in building the future. Art can add to new perceptions of human heritage. Since World War One the Middle East region has been facing continuous wars leading to a demographic change in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestine territories. This is why artists…

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Works by Britton Tolliver, Penny Slinger, Jim Shaw, Florian Maier-Aiche, Mimi Lauter, Shio Kusaka, Friedrich Kunath, Matt Johnson, Julian Hoeber, Drew Heitzler, Mark Grotjahn, and Theodora Allen on a hand-painted mural by Dave Muller

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Works by Mathis Altmann, Vittorio Brodmann, Cooper Jacoby, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Jill Mulleady, Raúl de Nieves, Lucie…

The Los Angeles Craft & Folk Art Museum is changing its name to Craft Contemporary. Executive director, Suzanne Isken said: “All this stuff — folk art, craft, contemporary art, fine art, high art, low art, street art — it all comes together in one category: art. So for us, those categories aren’t useful anymore.” She wants to blur the boundaries. To show fine artists working in glass, metal, cut…