On the eve of the opening of David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy of Art (Jan, 21, 2012), the Alan Cristea Gallery presents David Hockney: Moving Focus, a collection of David Hockney lithographs from the mid-80s. The new show, which opened on Wednesday, 18.01.12 presents works most of which are connected with a common […]
January 18, 2012
When KGB found nude photos of his wife among his personal belongings, Boris Mikhailov, a factory engineer from Kharkiv, Ukraine, was forced to quit his job and take up random gigs to make a living. But he didn’t stop taking photographs. Mikhailov, born in 1938 and currently residing in Berlin, Germany, was always interested in […]
January 14, 2012
So the Gagosian Galleries have opened Damien Hirst’s Complete Spot Paintings: 1986-2011, a global show taking place in all Gagosian spaces around the world – in London (x2), Rome, Paris, Athens, Geneva, New York (x3), San Diego, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. That’s a lot of spot paintings. But the curious thing here is not just […]
January 13, 2012
Questions as to what can and is an artwork and what is art in general have for a while been bothering everyone from an art historian to a member of public very far removed from the art process and driven by pure curiosity. Especially today, with contemporary art encompassing every thinkable and unthinkable technique, material […]
January 20, 2012
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