Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
Jimmie Durham
Artist’s sculpures exhibited at Arsenale, Venice. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times
Photo Giulia Di Lenarda
A Golden Lion winner for lifetime achievement at the International Art Exhibition in Venice, the American artist residing in Berlin spoke to us about identity, animals and poetry.
“Only Human: Martin Parr” – between civic committment and unforgiving irony, a new solo show by Martin Parr opens at National Portrait Gallery in London.
Giacometti the sadist: the unknown side of a great sculptor
Cruel objects of desire, Giacometti/Sade
Model holding the Disagreeable Object, 1931
Photo Man Ray
Cruel objects of desire, Giacometti/Sade
Exhibition at the Giacometti Foundation, Paris, 2019
Cruel objects of desire, Giacometti/Sade
Exhibition at the Giacometti Foundation, Paris, 2019
Cruel objects of desire, Giacometti/Sade
Exhibition at the Giacometti Foundation, Paris, 2019
The Giacometti Institute exhibits little-known diary drawings and sculptures of the Swiss artist, revealing his controversial passion for Marquis de Sade.
Blending Chinese traditional style and colonial art deco, the typical Shikumen lane houses are drastically disappearing. Cody Ellingham preserves their memory in neon night fragments.
“My father, who has always been in my heart, returns through my art”: an interview with Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo PIstoletto
Mobili capovolti, 1976. Table, chairs and mirror
Photo A. Osio
Michelangelo PIstoletto
Il disegno dello specchio, 1979
Photo Archivio Pistoletto
Michelangelo PIstoletto
Mobili capovolti, 1976. Poltrone e specchio
Photo Archivio Pistoletto. Armchairs and mirror
Michelangelo PIstoletto
Biella, Sede del Terzo Paradiso
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
Gallery View, Camp Beau Ideal Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BFA.com/Zach Hilty
The Met’s exhibition unpacks the etymology and history of camp, and defines the elusive term to offer viewers a contextual apparatus for examining it in relation to high fashion.
The curious case of Mark Rothko and why chemistry is at the core of iconic design
Rothko’s story at the Four Seasons becomes food for thought to talk about the relationship between companies and creatives today, as a shared goal underlies successful collaborations.
Ivàn Argote, A point of view, 2019
A Point of View is an interactive sculpture installed at an elevation above the Salton Sea. It registers diurnal, geologic, and mechanized time in this section of the ever progressing San Andreas Fault. It also addresses the long arch of memory contained in Argote’s blend of pre-Columbian and brutalist architecture.
Gary Simmons, Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark, 2019
Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark is a sculptural installation that serves as both a literal and metaphorical platform for music and performance. Inspired by the Black Ark, Lee “Scratch” Perry’s famed Jamaican studio and the site of the birth of dub, Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark includes a series of speakers hand-built from vintage parts and wood scavenged from the Treme neighborhood of post-Katrina New Orleans.
Cecilia Bengolea, Mosquito Net, 2019
Mosquito Net is not a quest for the universal beauty of nature, but rather a display of social street dance to invoke the spirit of animals and nature.
Superflex, Dive-In, 2019
Using the preferred color palettes of Walter and Leonore Annenberg, Palm Springs, and marine corals, Dive-In merges the recognition that global warming will drastically reshape the habitat of our planet with another more recent extinction: the out-door movie theater.
Eric N. Mack, Halter, 2019
The iconic Southern California car garage, draped and reanimated as a site-specific sculpture, brings something singular to an already-striking natural location.
Cara Romero, Jackrabbit, Cottontail & Spirits of the Desert, 2019
Cara Romero’s new photographic series responds to the ancestral lands of the Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Serrano, and Mojave people. These images feature four special time-traveling visitors from Chemehuevi who have come to the ancestral lands of their sister tribes in the Coachella Valley.
Nancy Baker Cahill, Revolutions, 2019
Using augmented reality, Revolutions alludes to the capturing of energy, which we require to remedy a man-made crisis.
Armando Lerma, Visit Us in the Shape of Clouds, 2019
His mural, Visit Us in the Shape of Clouds, includes various images from the American Southwest and beyond such as snakes, birds, parrots, fish, monkeys, seashells, plants, flowers, and rock art. He selected these images to illustrate a story of migration and the transitory.
Pia Camil, Lover's Rainbow, 2019
Set in two locations across the U.S.–Mexico border (Baja, Mexico and the Coachella Valley), Lover’s Rainbow is conceived as an identical set of rainbows made from painted rebar. Located in desert territory, the act of bending the rebar into the ground is a way to re-insert hope into the land.
John Gerrard, Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017, 2017-2019
Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 depicts the site of the Lucas Gusher, the world’s first major oil find (in 1901), located in Spindletop, Texas, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation, the center of which is marked by a flagpole spewing an endless stream of black smoke.
Sterling Ruby, SPECTER, 2019
Sterling Ruby’s fluorescent orange monolith, SPECTER, appears as an apparition in the desert. The bright, geometric sculpture creates a jarring optical illusion, resembling a Photoshopped composite or collage, as if something has been removed or erased from the landscape.
Kathleen Ryan, Ghost Palm, 2019
Ghost Palm is an echo of a natural form, a meticulous reconstruction in steel, plastic and glass of the largest palm species native to California, the Washingtonia filifera(desert fan palm).
Postcommodity, It exists in many forms, 2019
It Exists in Many Forms emerged from in-depth conversations between the artists and owners of midcentury homes in Palm Springs. It is a sound work inspired by these conversations and installed in a house.
Mary Kelly, Peace is the Only Shelter, 2019
Peace is the Only Shelter brings bygone vestiges of the Cold War back into our contemporary context, employing slogans from the WSP, where normally there would be advertisements, and cartographies of military expansion in the California desert, where there would be routes and schedules.
Julian Hoeber, Going Nowhere Pavilion #01
Going Nowhere Pavilion #01 (Breeze Block, Ben-Day Dot, Coleseum, Möbius Strip, Thought Problem) is a Möbius strip made from concrete breeze blocks in a variety of fleshy pinks and browns. As with the Möbius strip form, what is inside and outside the self can quickly become indescirnible.come indiscernible.is a Möbius strip made from concrete breeze blocks in a variety of fleshy pinks and
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Badgett-Taylor, Terminal Lake Exploration Platform, 2019
The solar powered Terminal Lake Exploration Platform (TLEP) explores remote bodies of water. First employed by artist Steve Badgett and architect Chris Taylor to explore the Great Salt Lake (in collaboration with the Center for Land Use Interpretation) the platform’s has a modular design that maximizes deployability in inhospitable conditions and inaccessible bodies of water.
Iman Issa, a film about things to be used, in order of appearance, by self or others, for touching upon larger, insidious, or different things, 2019
Inspired by the Coachella Valley landscape and Sunnylands Center & Gardens, Surrogates, a film about things to be used, in order of appearance, by self or others, for touching upon larger, insidious, or different things consists of a film-set prop of a refining facility accompanied by a written description of the main sequence from the film featuring the prop.
Cinthia Marcelle, Wormhole, 2019
Wormhole occupies empty storefronts in the Coachella Valley cities of Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Indian Wells, Indio, and Coachella as well as one in the city of Tijuana, Mexico. Beyond the glass, a television monitor displays the exterior of one of the storefronts in the grouping.
20 contemporary artists from all over the world have been called to tell the Coachella Valley desert in the sign of interactivity and new media.