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Georg Baselitz is a German painter and sculptor. He became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down

Georg Baselitz · Nothing is better...

MAD Architects was founded in Beijing by Chinese architect Ma Yansong. The firm is committed to developing futuristic, organic, technologically advanced designs

Ma Yansong · Habin Opera House

KAWS is an American graffiti artist and designer known for blurring the boundaries between commercial and fine Art by doing both toys, paintings, sculptures and prints.

KAWS · Just do it All

Richard Serra often constructs Installation on a scale that dwarfs the observer. His works challenge viewers' perception of their bodies in relation to interior spaces

Richard Serra · I am Identified by...

Richard Deacon is a Turner Prize winner. He works on both domestic and large scales, combining organic forms with elements of engineering.

Richard Deacon · Four Decades of...

Andres Serrano is an American photographer and artist who has become famous through his controversial work Piss Christ

Andres Serrano · Piss Christ

David Salles works consist of juxtaposed images. He manipulates images by combining a variety of different styles, recognizable imagery, and textures.

David Salle · I am A Looker

Kenny Sharf is known for his participation in the interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.

Kenny Sharf · How I Approach A...

Richard Wilson’s 20:50 is truly a contemporary masterpiece. The work was the only permanent installation at the Saatchi Gallery. shown in each of the gallery’s venues since 1991

Richard Wilson · 20:50

Marina Abramovic’s works, is like manifestos. She is an icon of performance art, whose works have become an foundation for development of contemporary art.

Marina Abramovic · An...

I was a professional musician I played the accordion so music is part of my life and I don't feel I gave up music all I do as an architect is about music he says

Daniel Libeskind · Musicality in...

Julian Schnabel paint on massive canvases, using unconventional materials like broken plates

Julian Schnabel · I only want to...

The installation TIME MACHINE, nr 11 in the #LightHackSculptureseries, is not a time travel machine, but rather a machine that produces time.

Pia Myrvold · Time Machine # 11

Mondo Cane by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys is a display of the human condition. The exhibition features a group of automated puppet

Venice Biennale · The Belgian...

With this exhibition in the US Pavilion, Martin Puryear has said that he represents his country as both an artist and a citizen.

Martin Puryear · The American...

Forecasting Future centres around the varied relations between the human and the nonhuman in an age when climate change are threatening life on the Earth.

Venice Biennale · The Nordic...

"I consider the new series of images a portrait of a country that has for so long been a crossroads for many different ethnicities, religions, and languages. "

Shirin Neshat · The Home of My

"I imagine an overall environment: an immersive installation that propels visitors to the world of the recording studio, encouraging creatives to make music", Xavier Veilhan

Xavier Veilhan · The French...

"This design proposes a space that resonates with the feelings of loss and absence that were generated by the death and destruction at the World Trade Center," Michael Arad

Michael Arad · The National 9/11...

“Green light is an act of welcoming, addressed both to those who have fled hardship and instability in their home countries and to the residents of the cities receiving them.”

Olafur Eliasson · Green Light –...

In June 2017, Katharina Grosse transformed a piece of Danish coastline into a monumental, sublime artwork, spraying pink acrylic colored paint directly onto nature.

Katharina Grosse · Colorizing...

Take a look at the Venice Biennale. One of the most important events in the art world. Hear visitors' highlights, reviews and why Venice still matters.

Venice Biennale · 57th Venice...

One Minute Sculptures by Erwin Wurm at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Action based art that requires the participation of the public. It is the task of sculpture to produce spatial experiences.

Erwin Wurm · The Austrian Pavilion...

British artist Phyllida Barlow’s ambitious installation for the British Pavilion, folly, playfully challenges audiences to explore their own understanding of sculpture.

Phyllida Barlow · The British...

The ARoS Triennale is one of the top worldwide art events of 2017. An ambitious triennale exploring humanity's impact on nature, featuring an impressive range of international artists

ARoS Triennial · The Garden | THE...

World famed artist Christian Marclay’s discusses "The Clock", a contemporary masterpiece comprised of thousands of fragments from television and film history

Christian Marclay · On Time...

Robert Longo's work are visualizations of power, protest, desperation, futility, and aggression that together create a searing portrait of our time.

Robert Longo · The Destroyer Cycle

"Painting is an emotional experience. A poetic experience". Meet one of the masters of geometric abstract painting; David Novros.

David Novros · Selected Works from...

Austin Lee incorporates and explores new technology into his art. His newest tool to create watercolor drawings is a robot, that mirrors his digital artwork.

Austin Lee · The Drawing Robot

"I want the work to make a person uncomfortable, angry or happy. Whatever emotion." Meet painter Nina Chanel Abney in a talk about politics, race, inspirations and process.

Nina Chanel Abney · Easy to...

What is a masterpiece? In this exclusive interview LOT-EK Architects founding partner Giuseppe Lignano discusses his beliefs and understanding of a masterpiece.

LOT-EK · Masterpiece

"I think we are in most dangerous moment of human civilization right now. The only way to survive is to change our consciousness."

Marina Abramovic · How I See the...

Rafael Viñoly talks about 432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. A stunning architectual archievement.

Rafael Viñoly · 432 Park Avenue

Eric Fischl, one of the great masters of American art and the most influential figurative painters in our time, discusses the multiple challenges of figuration.

Eric Fischl · Figurative Painting

“The High Line, if it’s about anything, it’s about nothing, about doing nothing. You can walk and sit, but you can’t be productive”

Liz Diller · The High Line · New...

Exclusive interview with the legendary American artist Alex Katz. Katz, currently in his ninth decade, is painting with the high ambition of being the best.

Alex Katz · I Am Painting Really...

"Emotion in architecture is very important. I don't believe in just glass, neutrality and nice white boxes. I like the emotion. Emotion is complex and taking you to another space"

Daniel Libeskind · Emotion in...

"My own nature as a human being is directly reflected in the work that I do. It's always the voice of a woman who is very conscious of her own strength but extreme fragility"

Shirin Neshat · Shirin on Shirin

"I am probably a selfish bastard. I like to do whatever I wanna do and that's why I choose to be an artist." Meet Olaf Breuning, a seriously funny artist with an absurdist sense of humor

Olaf Breuning · Unknown Moments

Tony Matelli's art provokes dialogue. It grabs people's attention. His most controversial piece "Sleepwalker" has come to the High Line in NYC.

Tony Matelli · Sleepwalker

Daniel Arsham gives an exclusive tour during the installation of his first solo exhibition in New York. A brief glimpse into our current culture and its signifiers.

Daniel Arsham · Circa 2345

Arad, Dykers and Libeskind - 3 world-renowned architects that have huge fingerprints on Ground Zero, speaks emotionally about where they were on the day of 9/11 2001.

Craig Dykers, Daniel Libeskind,...

Mariko Mori has a mission called Oneness. It can help maintaining the balance in the World. The Ring: One With Nature is part of this concept.

Mariko Mori · Ring: One With

Renowned curator Jérôme Sans takes us on an exclusive tour of the Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong's exhibition "Painting as Shooting" at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.

Liu Xiaodong · Painting as

Exclusive tour through world-renowned artist Antony Gormley's show "CONSTRUCT" at Sean Kelly Gallery, NYC. A major exhibition of new and key early works.

Antony Gormley · Construct

"I never liked art. I never wanted to do art. I wanna have some effect on the world. I want to do projects I never really seen before"

Vito Acconci · I Never Liked Art

"I like to be an activist. I want you to love more. I want you to care more" "What's my next move, that's what I wanna know. What's my next move"

Meg Webster · I Want You to Care...

Marina Abramovic discusses her understanding of a masterpiece. What is a masterpiece? What qualities must a work have to qualify as one.

Marina Abramovic · Masterpiece

"The word art makes me nervous. Art is the thing that we can most identify as otherworldly. It has to be kind of honest and with a little bit of irony. Not too much"

Erik Parker · The Word Art makes...

"Being an artist is a political act anyway. On one hand it's pretty useless, and on the other it's also significant"

Robert Longo · I will Strike the...

"Its nice to have a distance from the art world. I cannot see how people can really juggle being jet-setting the art fairs and all that and also making art"

Jules de Balincourt · I Am Not an...

”We should be embracing the time we live in.” Design icon Karim Rashid wants to touch humanity. He wants people to stop living in the past, and start living in the present in stead.

Karim Rashid · Embrace the Present

Ai Weiwei closed his exhibition in protest against the Danish parliament's approval of laws to deter asylum seekers from entering the country. Take a tour of the exhibtion.

Ai Weiwei · Ruptures

Pioneer of performance art, Vito Acconci reads his poem "Re" in his New York studio. "I do not talk down...under my words... under discussion".

Vito Acconci · Reading...

"Being an artist every day, you take the chance of going mad. Because you find yourself in situations that are past the point of logic you understand"

Lawrence Weiner · Art is about...

"This is who I am and I wanna share who I am. The whole of me. Accept it or not" Welcome to Joyceland. The beauty, wonder and boldness of Joyce Pensato's world.

Joyce Pensato · Joyceland

"Many times women have been sentimentalized when they use the vigina and the cunt. That's not the case. Women have a lot of anger. A lot of rage"

Judith Bernstein · A Feminist Art...

"I started this art thing as an act of rebellion. I haven't grown up and accepted my adult responsibilities as an artist. Haven't done so, it worked out. So here I am; still doing it"

Peter Saul · Still Doing It

The most controversial pavilion of the 2015 Venice Biennale. A mosque inside a Catholic church. Raising issues about worship, immigration and integration

Christoph Büchel · The Icelandic...

"Art is like a mirror expressing ourselves. Art defines what you are and who we are. The human existence."

Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho ·...

Canadassimo blurs the traditional boundaries of the art experience. Partially obscured by scaffolding, which gives the impression the exhibition is still under construction.

BGL · The Canadian Pavilion | 56th...

"My show concerns the fragility of the World, certain creatures of the World, children and ghost stories"

Joan Jonas · 56th Venice Biennale

"If you have a key in your hand, it means you have a chance. The future is yours. If you lose the key, you lose a part of life"

Chiharu Shiota · The Japanese...

"It's important for the art that I make to reflect the time I am alive in". Marc Quinn talks about the process and the optimism in his new series of paintings.

Marc Quinn · The Toxic Sublime

Africa's Out ! Founded by artist Wangechi Mutu | Celebrate and Shout Out for the rights and lives of African LGBTQ

Wangechi Mutu · Africa’s Out

Joana Vasconcelos · 55th Venice...

Ai Weiwei’s work ‘bang’ employs 886-three legged wooden stools made by traditional craftsmen

Ai Weiwei · 55th Venice Biennale

The Danish artist Jesper Just presented a film project that examined themes of architectural pastiche and cultural dislocation

Jesper Just · 55th Venice Biennale

"I wanted to produce something that was "off", and was not at all systematic in any normal architectural sense." Meet the architect Thom Mayne

Thom Mayne · I Wanted to Produce...

"Drawing was my first language, more so than writing or speaking" Richard Phillips talks about celebrity painting, and the changing art scene.

Richard Phillips · Drawing was My...

”I hate conceptual art. I don’t believe in it. It’s bullshit” Dan Graham talks about his art, and what he is exploring and investigating as an artist.

Dan Graham · I hate Conceptual Art

"Risk means you have to go beyond the frontiers. At least 5% has to be something that has never been done before. Risk is part of my DNA”

Daniel Libeskind · Risk

Eric Fischl, one of the great masters of American art, discusses his process, his most notorious and controversial paintings as Bad Boy

Eric Fischl · Bad Boy

”The meaning is always happening between the transition between things not the things themselves.”

Sarah Sze · The Relationship btw...

”Styling is when you look into history and copy history, and designing is when you look into the future and shape the future”

Karim Rashid · I am a Design...

Architect Steven Holl shares his creative process, from initial sketches to concept, and the final architectual design of the HEART museum.

Steven Holl · Creating HEART

A horrifying and brutal journey through the disaster of eastern Congo. Extract from Richard Mosse's major work "The Enclave"

Richard Mosse · 55th Venice...

What is a masterpiece? What qualities must a work have to qualify as one. David Salle discusses his understanding of a masterpiece.

David Salle · Masterpiece

Dan Colen talks about his exhibition Psychic Slayer at the HEART Museum. Its about control and surrender; between reality and fantasy

Dan Colen · Psychic Slayer

Julie Mehretu talks about her creative process, her experience of the Arab Spring, and the effort of trying to invent new languages and new spaces

Julie Mehretu · The In-between...