AI Interview
Rachel Kushner’s art world-centric “The Flamethrowers” is the rare type of novel to tip its hat just enough to the milestones of history to create an inspired yet unique work of fiction, one that recalls specific eras without falling into the genre of...
SINGAPORE — Bored by their corporate jobs, former advertising executives Kenny Lim (a copywriter) and Andrew Loh (an art director) set up their own fashion label DEPRESSION in 2006, starting up with a line of t-shirts. Since then, the creative duo...
SINGAPORE — Jakarta-based designer Toton Januar only set up his label TOTON in early 2012, but the young Indonesian designer is already making some waves with his designs which are characterized by a twist on traditional elements and a generous use of...
PARIS — ARTINFO France met recently with Jérôme de Noirmont in his office on the rue Matignon in the eighth arrondissement, surrounded by the red, blue, and apple-green catalogues published by his now-defunct gallery. For 20 years, Jérôme and his wife...
SINGAPORE - Last December, a timepiece by Officine Panerai – a Reference 6154 diver’s wristwatch made for the Egyptian Navy — sold for $326,500 at Christie’s New York against a pre-sale estimate of $80,000-$120,000. A similar watch...
SHANGHAI — When we reach Christopher Doyle over Skype he’s working at his Kowloon Bay studio. “I don’t know if it’s a studio or a closet or a brothel or a repository of dreams – I’m not sure exactly what it is,” he cackles. “I think it’s a possibility, that’s...
PARIS — When Piasa opens its new space on the Rue du Bac in April, it will be the first time that a Paris auction house has set up shop on the Left Bank. The architect working on its new location in a former chapel from the 18th century is Charles Zana, who...
French neurosurgeon Bernard Massini owns an art collection that would be the envy of many lifelong connoisseurs: including 450 works and encompassing paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, and sculpture. Nevertheless, the 59-year-old Massini came into...
The neolithic craft of Japanese tōgei (pottery) morphs into a contemporary approach under Takuro Kuwata’s experimentation with traditional methods. “Flavor of Nature” is Kuwata’s first solo exhibition at Salon94 Bowery and in the...
German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth (1930 – 1998) was not only a sculptor and painter, but a radical poet who sought objects from everyday life and collaged them into massive mixed-medium installations. For 20 years in later life, he...
