Airing on SBS on Demand, the 2018 film has seen renewed attention and rightfully so, taking a close look at the life of painter Gerhard Richter. The romantic drama was written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, and was nominated for two Academy Awards at the Oscars in the year it was released for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography—marking only the second time a German-language film by a German director had been nominated in multiple categories.
Read MoreAfter a year of cancelled exhibits and shuttered galleries, New York's biggest art fair is back. Frieze New York will take place for the first time at The Shed in Manhattan from May 5 to May 9.
Read MoreAt a time of global helplessness and an increasing loss of confidence in politics, art demands social interaction. Diversity United assembles works from established and emerging artists, representing different generations, genders and regions, and makes the case for a European dialogue, focusing on themes such as freedom and democracy, migration and territory as well as political and personal identity. As of June the exhibition will be on view in the iconic halls of the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin until late September 2021.
Read MoreTwenty-four artists have donated their works to raise funds for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), which is holding a sale online at Artsy from now until April 30 instead of its annual in-person benefit gala. The 19 works and five limited-edition multiples have an estimated total of US$400,000, proceeds of which which will help establish the Joe Thompson “Yes” Fund to support artists and art-making in all forms.
Read MoreChiharu Shiota’s elaborate entanglements are difficult to forget and easy to get lost in. Her labyrinthine installations are vast, surreal waves of blood-red, black or white threads, and appear almost as though humans could weave webs. Within these environments, the Japanese, Berlin-based artist often traps objects of personal significance such as clothes, keys, boats, suitcases, and even herself.
Read More“Wait once again for better people” reads a leaflet under a bouquet in William Kentridge‘s “Hyacinths (Wait Once Again for Better People)” (2020). It sums up how many activists feel right now — frustrated with bad people clinging to their power. The work is one of many thought provoking prints on view right now at Marian Goodman gallery in William Kentridge: Making Prints: Selected Editions 1998-2021.
Read MoreHope is a word that we have all become more familiar with—or perhaps forgotten—in the last year or so. The world has experienced innumerable complications due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota sought to create a space that would remind and inspire us to believe again.
Read MoreFor a while now, artist Shilpa Gupta has been interested in our comprehension of the ideas of distance—physical, geographical or even imaginary. Her new work, titled a Lockdown Series, was created during the past year, for AD. These photographs look at the ideas of distance, mobility and confinement through a sequence of images of an empty PPE suit sitting, standing and lounging alone in the house as if it were a person captive in their own domestic setting during the pandemic.
Read MoreGermany’s greatest living painter donates 100 works, including his Birkenau series, to capital’s new museum
Fans of the German painter Gerhard Richter are expected to flock to Berlin to view 100 works that he has in effect donated in a long-term loan to a new museum of modern art. The works include a series of paintings addressing the Holocaust that he has vowed never to sell.
Read MoreLast August, Shirin Neshat stood surrounded by portraits madly rotating with the gusts of an unforgiving desert wind. On location in a remote part of New Mexico, the artist suddenly became the subject of her own art: Neshat was circled with faces she had photographed for her latest project, Land of Dreams, encompassing a vast series of photographic portraits and a two-channel video, currently on view at Gladstone Gallery, as well as a feature film—the artist’s third—set to premiere later this year. When the Iranian-American actress Sheila Vand, who plays the lead in the film and the video, saw her director engulfed in a vortex of her images, it felt like “an act of God” in service of art.
Read MoreGerhard Richter has agreed to loan more than 100 works, including a four-piece work addressing the Holocaust that he has pledged never to sell, to a new museum of 20th-century art under construction in Berlin. The museum is to be built by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, next to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie. It is intended to house the city’s vast store of 20th-century art, which has dramatically outgrown the Neue Nationalgalerie.
Read MoreA towering expanse of red thread, a new installation by Chiharu Shiota (previously) suspends 10,000 letters within the nave of Berlin’s König Galerie, a Brutalist-style space located in the former St. Agnes church. The immersive construction runs floor to ceiling and is awash with notes from people around the world who share their dreams following a particularly devastating year. Aptly named “I hope…,” the large-scale project hangs two wire boats that appear to float upward at its center, evoking travel into an unknown future.
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