David Zwirner announces his first gallery in Paris

David Zwirner is pleased to announce its first gallery in Paris. Opening October 16, 2019, during FIAC, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition will present new and significant works by Raymond Pettibon. David Zwirner’s first outpost in continental Europe, the Paris gallery will be located at 108, rue Vieille du Temple, a…

Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again

19 May - 2 September 2019 SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces the exclusive West Coast presentation of the critically acclaimed exhibition, Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again on view from May 19 through September…

May You Live In Interesting Times. 58th Biennale di Venezia

May 11 - November 24, 2019 Giardini and Arsenale, Venice The 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled May You Live In Interesting Times, will open to the public from Saturday May 11 to Sunday November 24, 2019, at the Giardini and the Arsenale; it will be…

Video of Polish artist Natalia LL eating a banana temporarily goes back on show after protests over museum’s ‘censorship’

A 1973 video of the Polish artist Natalia LL suggestively eating a banana has gone back on show at the National Museum in Warsaw–but only until next week when its 20th- and 21st-century art galleries are due to be rehung. The video installation will then go into storage. The removal…

Overpainted photographs by Gerhard Richter

9 April - 8 June 2019 Gagosian Gallery, London. Throughout his long and eminent career, Richter has expanded the potential of image making through a dialogue between old and new media. He began painting over photographs in the mid-1980s, at the very moment when New York Neo-Conceptual artists were engaging…

ART PARIS 2019 The leading springtime event for modern and contemporary art

4 - 7 April 2019 Grand Palais, Paris. Art Paris is the place to be in Paris in spring. Favouring a thematic approach and open to all mediums, from 4th-7th April 2019, the 21st edition of the fair will bring together 150 modern and contemporary art galleries under the majestic…

Christo plans to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

The artist Christo has announced plans to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris next spring, covering the Champs-Élysées landmark with almost 25,000 sq. m of silvery blue fabric, made of recyclable polypropylene, and 7,000 metres of red rope. The piece, entitled L’Arc de Triomphe Wrapped (Project for Paris, Place…

Homage to Karl Lagerfeld. 30 Years of Photography

21 February – 15 May 2019 Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” Karl Lagerfeld Karl Lagerfeld whose multifaceted personality helped set the fashion industry’s standard for five decades, died Tuesday in Paris. He was 85. He…

YICCA 2018 final exhibition in Zagreb

24 January - 17 February 2019 HDLU - Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Zagreb. The artists featured in this year’s YICCA exhibition project mostly deal with questions related to the meaning of the concept of ‘nature’ in the 21st century, in the era we call anthropocene. It seems that numerous…