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Anselm Kiefer on the Existential Crisis Facing Humanity

April 5, 2017

Artsy - Anselm Kiefer is emphatically one of the world’s most successful and well-known living artists. His work has been described as “verging on the divine,” no less. But at 72, what does it all mean to Kiefe...

James Rosenquist, pop art contemporary of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, dies aged 83

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April 5, 2017

Art and Culture, Artists

The Independent UK - James Rosenquist, a key figure in the pop art movement along with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, has died aged 83. His wife Mimi Thompson, told The New York Times that he died at his hom...

How Yayoi Kusama Predicted The Power Of The Internet

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March 22, 2017

Artists, Spotlight

Huffington Post -The exhibition “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors” opened Thursday at Washington D.C.’s Hirshhorn Gallery. The show features 70 years of the iconic Japanese artist’s work, including six of her buz...

Ren Hang: Death of China’s hotshot erotic photographer

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February 28, 2017

Artists, Trending

BBC - Known for his provocative pictures and poetry, Ren's often explicit work had been exhibited in galleries all over the world. He shot for major fashion brands and magazines such as Gucci and GQ China. D...

First French art prize for female artists awarded

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February 21, 2017

Artists, Trending

The Art Newspaper - France's culture ministry has lent support to a women's contemporary art prize launched by AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), founded by Camille Morineau, the new d...

Activist Artist Dread Scott On Why We Need A Revolution

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February 18, 2017

Artists, Spotlight

Huffington Post - Activist artist Dread Scott creates in a language of searing simplicity. His work subverts American iconography to reveal the brutal injustices embedded in our nation’s marrow. Scott’s fi...

Why German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is a 21st-century Renaissance man

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February 18, 2017

Artists, Spotlight

DW - "Tillmans does not take pictures - he makes pictures." Chris Dercon, exiting director of the Tate Modern in London and incoming director of the Volksbühne theater in Berlin, gave perhaps the most fitting d...