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AGE: 64HAILS FROM: Holzminden, GermanyPRESIDES OVER: Karin Weber Gallery, 20 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong KongGALLERY’S SPECIALTY: Contemporary artARTISTS SHOWN: Aung Myint, Tina Buchholtz, Charles Cham, Phaneendra Nath Chaturvedi, Luca Cruzat, Michal Macku...
On a rain-soaked afternoon last summer, Nyoman Masriadi sat smoking in his luxurious home studio in the north of Yogyakarta, Indonesia’s unofficial art capital on the island of Java. He lit up a Marlboro and, making a gesture toward the rice paddy adjacent to...
The 20th- and 21st-century design sales closed out the season with generally good, but not spectacular, results. Judging from the action this time, the frenzied bidding of a few years back isn’t about to return. This bodes well for the long-term health of the...
Approaching her studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on October 31, the day after Hurricane Sandy swept through New York, Alyson Shotz could see that the building had been hit hard. Inside, she recalls, “things that had been at one end of the room were now at the...
For a man who works long hours with a chainsaw, Wang Keping is remarkably beatific. He smiles almost constantly, but he pairs his grin with a politely mischievous gaze. On an early summer day, he drives me past unremarkable gates on the outskirts of Paris...
As a child, Prince Ravivaddhana Sisowath went into exile in Europe with much of the Cambodian royal family when the Khmer Rouge assumed power in the early 1970s. He returned to Cambodia for the first time in 2000. Today he devotes his energy to advancing the...
Italy’s magnificent red, Barolo, is coming of age — not that it wasn’t well known in the past. The earliest Barolo dates back to the end of the 18th century. However, a string of excellent vintages and a vast improvement in viticulture and winemaking in the...
The Photographs of Ray K. MetzkerBy Keith F. DavisYale University Press224 Pages, $60Ray K. Metzker might not be the most recognizable name in photography, but his innovative work qualifies him as a master of the medium, as a 2011 exhibition originating at...
AGE: 46HAILS FROM: Turin, ItalyPRESIDES OVER: Bortolami Gallery, 520 West 20th street, New YorkGALLERY’S SPECIALTY: Contemporary ArtARTISTS SHOWN: Richard Aldrich, Daniel Buren, Tom Burr, Morgan Fisher, Michel François, Piero Golia, Thilo Heinzmann, Patrick...
Over the past two weeks, ARTINFO has published the nine-part series of one of Art+Auction’s most significant annual features: the Power List, our survey of the art world figures who have had the strongest impact over the past year. As we explained in the...
