“Making a plan is designing your future, crossing your fingers, praying… a pony tail, a choreography, the shape of countries like Mali.” Cristina De Middel, LagosPhoto Curator LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of photography in Nigeria. The theme of this sixth edition is Designing Futures. The Festival opens on 24 October …
The Royal Academy of Arts19 Sep 2015 — 13 Dec 2015 The Royal Academy of Arts presents a landmark exhibition of the Honorary Royal Academician, Ai Weiwei. Although Ai is one of China’s leading contemporary artists, his work has not been seen extensively in Britain and the Royal Academy presents the first major institutional survey …
I met Abdulnasser Gharem three years ago when working at Edge of Arabia, the nonprofit cultural initiative he co-founded with Stephen Stapleton and Ahmed Mater. This year we sat down during Frieze to discuss his latest exhibition, Ricochet and his latest adventure: the Riyadh based Gharem Studio. His brother Ajlan Gharem, artist and co-founder of …
During my stay in Stockholm for the Absolut Art Award 2015, I had the chance to interview the winner for the “Art Work” section Frances Stark. Mara Sartore: When I interview artists I am always very curious about the beginning of their careers, how did you start being an artist? Where you born an artist …
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During my stay in Stockholm for the Absolut Art Award 2015, I had the chance to interview the winner for the “Art Work” section Frances Stark. Mara Sartore: When I interview artists I am always very curious about the beginning of their careers, how did you start being an artist? Where you born an artist …
Read moreMusic is different: an interview with Frances Stark
Daniel Buren: Axer / Désaxer. lavoro in situ10 Oct 2015 — 07 Apr 2016 Two projects have been specially commissioned by the Madre museum in 2015 from the French artist Daniel Buren (Boulogne-Villancourt, 1938) to celebrate the relationship between the museum and its community, on the occasion of the first ten years of the Madre’s …