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Marlborough Galleries, founded in London in 1946, was the first modern International gallery, opening in Rome in 1962 and in New York in 1963, followed by other cities around the world, becoming the prototype for all subsequent International galleries. Ran Dian spoke with Gilbert Lloyd, son of founder Frank Lloyd and Managing Director of Marlborough from 1972 until 1991. >> Read more

Art has no equivalent of the Skyscraper Index, the notion that record-breaking towers tend to be built, hubristically, just prior to an economic crisis. The top end of the art world seems to ignore crises altogether (at least the part that doesn’t invest in tall buildings). Inflationary tendencies are observable in the art world, though, in uppity auction prices, the spread of private museums and art storage facilities and, seemingly, in art itself, no doubt partly to fill all the cavernous museums being built. >> Read more

I know this is the being outside the system. I know, too, I do not belong. >> Read more

When I first saw Dan Graham, he stood almost anonymously by the wall, white hair and beard, a checked-flannel shirt and old cardigan.
 
 
 
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One of the most influential artists of his generation, Baselitz was dismissed from art school after only two semesters for "gesellschaftspolitisch unreif" ("socio-political immaturity")... >> Read more

For most, Vietnam is an idea formed, since the beginning of the twentieth century, by a foreigner’s idea of the foreign, rather more than by its residents. >> Read more

In essence, Zheng Chongbin has fought an unwinnable but fertile battle to deconstruct and meld traditions.
 
 
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I visited Gregor Hilderbrandt’s studio in West Berlin; a string of rooms are packed with seemingly every material and detritus possible....Gregor arrives, wearing dark jeans and jacket, and an un-tucked stripy business-shirt.... >> Read more

“Artist” is irreplaceable and useless.This introduction to Ryan Gander is also useless. Where to begin even?
 
 
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Presentation: randian’s first print issue Date: May 16, 4–8 pm >> Read more