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
Through theatrical re-presentations of reality via large-scale imagery, Wang Guofeng inspires the viewer to examine the lack of criticality in contemporary media. >> Read more
Taryn Simon is a New York-based artist known primarily for her meticulous work combining photography and text, though her practice has included sculpture and performance. >> Read more
I first met Karsten Födinger while we were penned up at the back of a small car being rushed from one museum opening—a recently opened museum, which of course was huge—to another in Pudong’s monumental waterfront spectacle of shiny high-rises... >> 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
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