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This month, simply earlier than Art Basel Hong Kong begins, an array of artworks — some towering, some glowing, one other paying homage to previous Hong Kong — will pop up exterior the partitions of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Five of those new, large-scale works have been commissioned by a division of […] More

This is “the age of the artwork honest,” the critic Dave Hickey declared in a 2007 lecture, not totally sanguinely. As honest giants like Art Basel and Frieze have continued so as to add occasions throughout the globe, they’ve discovered artwork sellers sport to participate, desirous to transact. But not everyone seems to be offered […] More

In the 12 months earlier than she jumped to her demise in January 1981, Francesca Woodman toiled furiously on her most bold venture, “Blueprint for a Temple.” A soft-focus blue collage that measured greater than 14 ft excessive, it reworked a couple of of her feminine buddies into sculptural caryatids and melded the tile work […] More

“I comply with Sacha on social media, and I see all of the images that she takes of all these stunning deserted locations throughout Hong Kong, so it was sort of thrilling to assume: Where are we going, and what’s it going to be like? And, you already know, what tales will the place inform?” […] More

Many relationships want a breather right here and there, and that features these between galleries and artwork festivals. This 12 months, the New York seller Edward Tyler Nahem returns to exhibiting at Art Basel Hong Kong after eight years away. Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art doesn’t have a gallery department in Asia, and Mr. Nahem […] More

The dusting of charcoal nonetheless on her fingers hinted that the Kenyan British artist Phoebe Boswell had simply completed placing the ultimate touches on the timber she had created within the entry hallway of the London outpost of Ghana’s Gallery 1957. With the present “Constellations, Part 1: Figures on Earth & Beyond” set to open […] More

One morning in late February, inside an enormous storage facility in London, the painter Louise Giovanelli glanced over half a dozen of her works as they had been crated up for a solo present on the White Cube gallery in Hong Kong. The outsize canvases pictured movie stars with their eyes closed and their mouths […] More

On a current springlike afternoon within the Hannam-dong neighborhood, amid the embassies and artwork galleries that stretch alongside the hilly streets close to the Han River, the Korean artist Heemin Chung had a couple of ideas a couple of moist marigold. “As an artist, I attempt to reimagine objects or surroundings, and I encountered this […] More

I’m not a humanist, I’m a creaturist. Have been since childhood. The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with — Man because the crown of creation, with all different animals, four-legged, feathered and scaled, ranked and devalued downward — has by no means made sense. Hierarchies in artwork, with portray and sculpture […] More

I’m not one for spring cleansing, however I’m one for spring cooking, throwing open the home windows and airing out these stewy winter cooking habits. Whether I’m loading a skillet with the whole lot inexperienced (like this herb-laden rooster dinner) or cranking up the grill on the primary 60-degree day (hi there, flank steak), I’m […] More

Headliner Bungalow The chef and cookbook creator Vikas Khanna, whose New York debut a few years in the past was on the Michelin-starred Junoon, now has a spot to name his personal right here. He and his enterprise companion, Jimmy Rizvi, who owns GupShup and different eating places, settled on the East Village. “The house […] More

The newest hefty quantity quarried by the group at Modernist Cuisine, the analysis kitchen, pictures studio and cookbook writer based by Nathan Myhrvold, is “Modernist Bread at Home.” It’s a follow-up for nonprofessionals to “Modernist Bread,” revealed seven years in the past. Lavishly photographed with step-by-step directions for lots of of breadstuffs, it contains scientific […] More