Zaha Hadid, one of the most innovative architects of the 21st century and the first woman to receive the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004, has advanced the language of contemporary architecture and design, exploring complex fluid geometries and using cutting-edge digital design and fabrication technologies. For Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion, an exhibition at […]

The New Museum presents the first New York survey exhibition of the work of the artist Carsten Höller (b.1961, Brussels, lives and works Stockholm). Over the past twenty years, Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and fun house, exploring such themes as safety, childhood, love, happiness, transportation, and the future. Höller […]

In his 1974 essay, Art as Collective Action, Howard Becker argues that art is created in a complex context of cooperating parties that together form the art system. He rejects the idea of the genius artist who is superior to all the supporting personnel that make his creations possible. If he were writing now, he […]

Here, Rizzoli presents a a career retrospective that`s not only definitive, but aesthetically pleasing, with over 300 colour images, an introduction by Nick Cave and informative essays from Jeffrey Deitch and Michael Bracewell. The book opens with Noble and Webster’s first light sculpture Excessive Sensual Indulgence (1996), a fountain of fairground-style light bulbs that was […]

Do Ho Suh is a wanderer. He is compelled to move but always wants to bring home with him. Since he has developed the ability to make a home wherever he is, things are starting to pile up. A case in point is Suh’s signature transportable fabric installation piece, Seoul Home… (1999), a diaphanous, ghostly […]

Hionas Gallery is pleased to present “Undefined”, an exhibition of new large-scale pastel drawings from Tun Ping Wang. This is Wang’s first show with Hionas, and is just the gallery’s fourth exhibition since opening to wide acclaim in June, 2011. Wang’s haunting portraits reflect the artist’s fascination with the imperfect beauty of faces, and how […]

Lygia Pape (1927–2004) was a leading Brazilian artist whose work brought together daring experimentation and formal rigor.Magnetized Space is the first major exhibition of Pape’s work to be presented in the UK. The exhibition brings together well-known and previously unseen works, spanning sculpture, performance, paintings, films, poems, engravings and collages.Pape was a founding member of […]

I gather images and sounds. Sometimes, I go out with a camera and recorder simply to document, without any pre-ordained agenda. This isn’t the only way I work – right now I’m finishing a narrative feature – but even there it’s a hybrid which makes use of traditions of street shooting that go way back, […]

In his 40-minute film, “Number Twelve: Variations on a Theme”, Dutch artist and filmmaker Guido van der Werve interweaves the unlikely fields of chess, astronomy, and music theory into a seamless philosophical meditation on possibility, mathematics, and infinity. Divided into three movements filmed in distinct locations, Number Twelve begins with the artist seated in a […]

Thandile Zwelibanzi’s Still Existence is a series that looks at the presence of informal traders on the streets of Johannesburg, in particular around one of the biggest taxi rank-cum-markets in the country. Zwelibanzi’s series begins with those trading at night, a significantly unsafe and quite isolated time for business on the streets of Johannesburg. Many […]