Artist and architects pay homage to Brazilian Modernist

More than 30 artists and architects including Cildo Meireles, Isaac Julien, Cristina Iglesias, Norman Foster and Olafur Eliasson have created new works in homage to the Brazilian Modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi. The São Paulo exhibition, “The…
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Artist sued by reluctant YouTube star

When “Kneecam No. 1″, a video of a German raver at a techno music festival in Berlin, became an internet hit in 2006, its creator, Matthias Fritsch, found his career taking off. The curator and video artist gave lectures on the spread of ideas via…
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Artist interview: Oscar Tuazon creates sculptures you are supposed to play with

Oscar Tuazon’s architectural sculptures burst through gallery walls, block doorways and spread across rooms in any way the artist sees fit—providing that the gallerist gives him the carte blanche to do so. The freedom of working outdoors allows for…
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Artist to set sail in former migrant boat

It took just over a year of negotiations with the Italian authorities for the British artist Lucy Wood, who is represented by Upstream Gallery in Amsterdam, to obtain a boat that was used to transport Libyans to Italy during the Libyan revolution in…
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