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Michael Landy has a knack for the spectacular. For his best-known performance piece, Break Down (2001), the artist destroyed all his worldly possessions, including his passport, in a former store on Oxford Street. In 2010, he set up a huge Art Bin at the...
Where will she stop? Hannah Barry, the contemporary art gallerist who put the inner London neighbourhood of Peckham on the capital’s art map — and before she hit her 30th birthday — is spearheading a bid to turn an underused multi-storey car park on Rye Lane...
– Hopper's "Nighthawks" Diner Discovered: In a long-term investigation to figure out once and for all the location that inspired Edward Hopper's most iconic work, "Nighthawks," writer Christopher Bonanos discovered that the glass-walled corner diner is almost...
The Pontifical Council for Culture has announced the details of the Holy See’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Entitled “In Principio,” the exhibition will take place in the Arsenale, and gather artists around three fundamental themes from the Book of...
Art galleries participating in the upcoming Art Basel Hong Kong, which runs May 23-26, are likely wondering whether the fair's new management, with the leverage of the Art Basel brand, will be able to bring in fresh flocks of collectors. As for the...
Decades before New York's Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery's ponds, hills and winding paths provided not only a pastoral final resting place for the nation's elite but also a recreational spot for picnics and horse-drawn buggies.The still-...
HONG KONG – If King of Pop Michael Jackson was an aerialist, how would he somersault in hits like “Smooth Criminal,” “Dangerous” and “Bad?”Montreal-based acrobatic theater company Cirque du Soleil may have the answer in “Michael Jackson the Immortal World...
It’s been more than a year and a half since New Delhi lost artist Sarnath Banerjee to Berlin. Banerjee, whose inimitable drawings and strips are known and loved for their ability to hint at complex themes like generational nostalgia, while...
You may remember seeing an article on ARTINFO Australia in December 2012 about a giant sculptural hot-air balloon by world-renowned Australian artist Patrica Piccinini that had been commissioned to celebrate the 100th birthday of Australia’s capital city...
In 1963, Richard Meier left the office of Marcel Breuer to start his own firm, a staff of one that operated out of his apartment. “I lived in one room, and I worked in one room,” Meier told ARTINFO. “It wasn’t great.” He eventually upgraded, hiring his first...
