Overview: Design Miami 2015
Design Miami/ is the global forum for design. Each fair brings together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators and critics from around the world in celebration of design culture.
Design Miami/ is the global forum for design. Each fair brings together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators and critics from around the world in celebration of design culture.
This December Moscow Museum of Modern Art unveils Mirrors: a three-part project organised for the IX Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival.
To celebrate the re-opening of its newly restored Design Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery is presenting fashion, furniture, lighting, ceramics, glass, and jewellery created in Japan over the past 50 years.
Stephen Newton’s paintings portray compelling, elemental images that serve as a reminder to the viewer of how buildings can encapsulate our hopes and fears on many different levels.
Lauren Matsumoto is a Brooklyn-based painter who explores how we relate to the natural world through her hybrid form of painting, drawing, and vintage collage, incorporating ephemera into her art.
Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, presents Zanele Muholi’s new exhibition of photographs, Somnyama Ngonyama (meaning ‘Hail, the Dark Lioness’).
Lightwaves is a free digital light festival taking place at Salford Quays, Greater Manchester until 27 December. We speak to artist Mads Christensen about his commissioned piece Cathedral of Mirrors.
This year’s Art Basel Miami did not disappoint in its presentation of some of the best modern and contemporary art from around the globe. Here is our overview of the fair’s 14th edition.
Simon Starling’s Nine Feet Later at The Modern Institute, Glasgow, includes a series of site-specific daguerreotypes, titled Recursive Plates.
The legacy of Pop Art resonates in almost every aspect of our daily surroundings and MCA Chicago is exposing this in upcoming exhibition, Pop Art Design, in collaboration with Vitra Design Museum.
Mounted on fields of primarily black and blue, Deborah Kass incorporates neon lights in her paintings for the first time.
Julian Rosefeldt’s new 13-channel work Manifesto questions the role of the artist in society today. Featuring Australian actress, Cate Blanchett.
Pangolin London presents Merete Rasmussen: Bronze and Ceramic. Known for her signature abstract ceramics, this exhibition explores a new departure for Rasmussen in the form of bronze works.
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, presents Longing Lasting, an exhibition of new works by the pre-eminent Scottish artist Claire Barclay.
Canadian artist David Altmejd has created a museum within the museum: a 50m2 installation piece comprising figures and objects formed from wax, mirrors, plaster and other materials.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a significant exhibition by pioneering American video and installation artist, Bill Viola, featuring installations from the last 20 years alongside new work, The Trial.
Photographer Michael Wolf’s latest presentation, Informal Arrangements at Flowers Gallery, London, juxtaposes Hong Kong’s industrial façades with views from within its hidden network of alleys.
Cristina Iglesias’ Phreatic Zones transforms Marian Goodman Gallery through installations exploring water, volcanic matter, and the fictional spaces of urban and natural piazzas.
Ostkreuz celebrates its 25th anniversary with two exhibitions in Paris: one at the Goethe Institut Paris and a second at the Galerie Passage du Désir.
London-based collective Assemble has been selected as the winner of the Turner Prize 2015 by a jury of industry specialists. The result was revealed at a ceremony at Tramway, Glasgow.
We review the first retrospective dedicated to Max Bill in Spain. The show covers every facet of his oeuvre: painting, graphic design, sculpture, architecture, furniture design and more.
Alfredo Jaar’s (Kindness) of (Strangers) confronts visitors with a complex arrangement of neon arrows which illustrates the movement of people.
John Akomfrah’s (b.1957) multi-screen installation Vertigo Sea draws inspiration from two striking and harrowing literary works: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Heathcote Williams’ poem Whale Nation.
Kathryn Andrews examines how image producers employ visual cues and material packaging to elicit desire in Run for President at MCA Chicago.
Through Mist at Lehmann Maupin is Shirazeh Houshiary’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong and her seventh show with the gallery.
James Casebere’s first solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery in Milan presents recent bodies of work that take the natural world as their subject matter.
Madrid-based Vietnamese fine art photographer Viet Ha Tran captures ephemeral moments of female emotion, and is influenced by Asian culture, classical painting, poetry and philosophy.
London Art Fair launches the art world year with its 2016 edition, taking place from 20-24 January. One of the UK’s premiere Modern British and contemporary art events, the fair brings together over 100 specially selected international galleries.
Magnum Photos has invited 10 of its photographers to participate in group show We Have the Power: We Are the Change at Musée de l’Homme, Paris.
The Photographers’ Gallery presents a retrospective of Saul Leiter’s prolific career. Featuring a carefully curated plethora of over 100 photographs, sketchbooks and ephemera, the show is a suitable celebration for a trailblazer of modern photography.
Light Show at Sharjah Art Foundation. The exhibition, organised by Hayward Gallery, explores the experiential and phenomenal aspects of light.
The latest recipient of the Film London Jarman Award was announced yesterday at The Whitechapel Gallery in London. The Belfast-based artist filmmaker Seamus Harahan (b.1968) was selected as this year’s winner from a shortlist of six distinguished creatives.
Choreograph debuts a series of photographs of dance, with elements of architecture and landscape.
Art Basel heads to the U.S. for its highly popular Miami Beach event, bringing together a total of 267 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Nathan Seabrook’s work alternates between social documentary of California residents and depictions of individuals in light-suffused interiors.
A survey at the Vitra Design Museum rethinks the iconic Bauhaus School, examining the influence of the past on contemporary design practice.
Theatre, cinema, painting and photography coalesce in French photographer Nicolas Dhervillers’ Hommages series.
Having graduated just nine years ago, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen has already achieved the impossible when it comes to 3D printing.
For architect Tom Kundig, design practice is an encounter with context, materials and nature, where structures become a part of their environment.
Reality machines explores Olafur Eliasson’s career, offering a unique look at an artist who uses nature as a material to create experiences.
Auto-portraiture forms the basis of Kourtney Roy’s exploration of the self, reality, memory and dreams – creating the illusion of a fixed point in time.
Siberia-born Evgenia Arbugaeva explores the Arctic landscapes of her childhood in her most recent photographic series, Weather Man.
Maia Flore weaves her way through metaphorical landscapes in the series Situations, as an apparition in red
The primary objective of photographer Ari Gabel is to document the vanishing faces and stories of anonymous individuals across America.
Sound of Harris, a new project by Olivia Arthur in collaboration with Philipp Ebeling will be exhibited for the first time at the Leica Studio.
With Sculptors in Mind: Sculptors’ Prints at Alan Cristea Gallery, London, brings together works on paper by nine sculptors. Until 23 December.
Magnum Print Room’s current show on iconic photographer David Hurn focuses on his work from the 1960s. The exhibition will reflect the range of Hurn’s diverse output in just one decade.
Plus One Gallery will host a solo show of gallery artist, Paul Cadden. This exhibition will feature 13 new hyperrealist drawings, which explore social scenes, portraiture and deserted landscape.
Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore, surveys the work of Korean artist Chun Kwang Young from his acclaimed long running series, Aggregation.
American artist Cecil Eci’Am Gresham works predominately with painting and mixed media art, but also has a distinctly digital style, which results in his unconventional, boldly abstract imagery.