Using matches to represent people, this California-based visual artist has gone viral with his video illustrating the importance of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As each match burns, the flame jumps to a match close by. But one match steps out of the line and avoids the flame. In much the same way, staying home and keeping your distance from other people can help stop the virus from spreading.
March 2020 Art News
In a press release today, Frieze has announced the cancelation of their 2020 New York fair, set to take place this summer on Randall Island:
What do we mean when we call an artwork a MASTERPIECE? Who decides which art becomes one? And what artists make them?
Major and minor museums and galleries around the world are shuttered for the foreseeable future to ensure the safety of both staff and visitors. Luckily, even when their doors are closed, there are ways to access their priceless collections from home.
The relationship between clothes, self-expression, and social perception has been present in the real and fictional life of humanity for thousands of years.
“I had always considered my work another activity of some kind,” remarked artist Donald Judd. “I certainly didn’t think I was making sculpture.” One of the foremost sculptors of our time, Judd refused this designation and other attempts to label his art: his revolutionary approach to form, materials, working methods, and display went beyond the set of existing terms in mid-century New York. His work, in turn, changed the language of modern sculpture. Bringing together sculpture, painting, drawing, and rarely seen works from throughout Judd’s career, Judd is the first US retrospective in over 30 years to explore this artist’s remarkable vision.
The Dallas Museum of Art presents For a Dreamer of Houses, an imaginative new exhibition of contemporary art that explores the significance of the spaces we inhabit and how they represent ourselves, our values, and our desires.
The so-called father of conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp’s influence on modern and contemporary art is wide-ranging. From readymades to Dada, his free-thinking and innovation has inspired generations of artists.
Learn how to start your own prints collection with specialist James Baskerville. Here he tells us what to look for in prints by Stik, Banksy and Warhol ahead of our upcoming Prints and Multiples sale at Christie’s London.
As a highlight of its 150th anniversary celebration, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art this month unveiled the results of a $22 million renovation of the 10 rooms that make up the Galleries for British Decorative Arts and Design, marking the completion of a multi-year effort to “reimagine” the museum’s extensive collection and the way it’s displayed.
