Courtesy Ron Bainbridge British artist Peter Newman’s UFO-like Skystation began its extended stay outside the Hayward Gallery in London today. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s classic LC4 chaise-lounge, the sculpture doubles as a piece of public seating designed to fit theView More >
Murakami Takashi’s wall-to-wall interior décor for Louis Vuitton’s Omotesando store – a project launched in April in concert with the artist’s latest collaborative collection for the fashion super-brand, Multicolor Spring Palette – will see it’s last day on 16 July.View More >
The third in a series of talks on Kusama Yayoi staged in conjunction with the artist’s solo show at Takahashi Collection Hibiya. For this round collector Takahashi Ryutaro is joined by Matsumoto Takako, director of the documentary film Near EqualView More >
July 6 marked the launch of Antony Gormley’s living monument project One & Other in which every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days, a different person stands on the otherwise empty Fourth Plinth in the northwest corner ofView More >
The Singapore United Overseas Bank has awarded the 28th Painting of the Year Award to Space In Between, a series of photographs by the young Singaporean artist Zhao Renhui (b. 1983). In addition to S$30,000 in prize money, the artistView More >
On 6 July, Phillips de Pury & Company announced the launch of a new series of theme-based auctions. The first sale, Now: Art of the 21st Century, will take place in London on 12 September offering works of art, designView More >
Timed to coincide with the French art fair FIAC09, the Centre Pompidou will stage Un Nouveau Festival, an exhibition organized by Centre director Bernard Blistène featuring works by Carsten Höller, Andrea Bloom, Jorge Pardo, and Franz West among others. RelatedView More >
The Music of Regret (2006), a film by New York artist Laurie Simmons that grew out of her photographic works, will be screening this weekend at Rise X in Shibuya. Structured as a three-act mini musical, in Act 1View More >
Jeff Koons Yorkshire Terriers 1991 Given its title by Artforum editor-at-large, GEISAI#11 jurist and co-curator of the show Jack Bankowsky, Pop Life: Art in a Material World looks at ways in which artists since the 1980s have engaged with the mediaView More >
Born in the Streets – Graffiti opening today in at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain explores the phenomenon that emerged in New York in the early 1970s and rapidly spread across the globe. The exhibition pays tribute to the pioneersView More >
Kudo Makiko Sky-flying fish, 2006 Copyright the artist, courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery In conjunction with Winter Garden: Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art currently underway at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, art critic and curator ofView More >
This year the contemporary art fair held each autumn in London introduces Frame, a new section dedicated to young galleries that have been in existence for less than six years. Each gallery will feature a solo artist presentation. Curators DanielView More >