Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was born today on February 4, 1881, in Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, where his father raised cattle. Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897 to 1899, before moving in 1900 to Paris, and supported himself as an architectural draftsman. He was rejected at the École des Beaux-Arts, notwithstanding he attended […]

A Syrian artist whose work about the war in his country has captured the world’s imagination has vowed not to apply for a United States visa until President Donald Trump is out of power. Khaled Akil’s latest project is being exhibited from Tuesday at California’s Stanford University. Under Trump’s recent executive order, which suspends travel for […]

2 Feb – 1 Apr 2017, Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street Opening: Thursday 2 February 2017, 6 – 8 pm ‘Between the space of nothing and the action of something, everything is possible’ – Douglas Dreishpoon New York… Beginning 2 February 2017, Hauser & Wirth will present ‘Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947 – 1962,’ […]

U.S. PAVILION AT LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 57TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION TO FEATURE TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY  WITH NEW WORK BY MARK BRADFORD PROJECT WILL INCLUDE MULTI-YEAR COLLABORATION BETWEEN BRADFORD AND VENICE SOCIAL COOPERATIVE, RIO TERÀ DEI PENSIERI BALTIMORE, MD, January 25, 2017 – The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and The Baltimore Museum […]

Cheim & Read is pleased to present Louise Bourgeois: Holograms, the first exhibition devoted exclusively to this little-known aspect of the artist’s long, groundbreaking career.   In 1998 Bourgeois was approached by C-Project, a New York-based fine arts holographic studio (the C stands for the speed of light) dedicated to exploring the creative potential of […]

Years ago, feeling good, the artist stumbled upon an old book at a Goodwill store: The Personal Atmosphere, by Frank Channing Haddock PhD. He bought it. Years later, feeling bad, he opened the book and used its questionable power to make this show. This, however, is not the first show Howlett built based on literature. […]

By RANDY KENNEDYJAN. 25, 2017 for NY Times With one dramatic no, a major artist has just escalated the culture world’s war against Donald J. Trump. For more than 20 years, the artist Christo has worked tirelessly and spent $15 million of his own money to create a vast public artwork in Colorado that would […]

More than 400,000 people marched through Manhattan on Saturday in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington on January 21st, 2017: Video feed via Staten Island Advance /YouTube   By NY Arts, Jan. 21, 2017      

As capitalism in its neoliberal form spreads worldwide, and populism – from Trumpism to Brexit – rises in all corners of the Western world; wall building emerges as a sign of a period one could call ‘post-political’. From the US-Mexico border to Italy’s Lampedusa, more and more fences and checkpoints are appearing, creating zones of […]

Ai Weiwei: Laundromat On view till December 23, 2016 Jeffrey Deitch gallery 18 Wooster Street, NYC Many artists engage with current political issues in their work, but it is the rare artist whose message transcends the art discourse and influences a wide international audience. Ai Weiwei has built on the moral authority of his work […]