Leading lights - Artists
Artist highlight: Jade van der Mark
‘We exist in an era where the rise of sophisticated technological innovations has significantly impacted the way we relate with one another. Shameless dismissiveness is a new norm. With my […]
2020 shortlist for Hugo Boss Prize announced
Every two years, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City awards the Hugo Boss Prize and on Tuesday, they announced the short-listed artists selected by a jury for next year’s […]
Doris Salcedo wins first $1 million Nomura Art Award
On the evening of October 31st, artist Doris Salcedo became the first to receive what is now the world’s largest contemporary art prize: the Nomura Art Award. The award, which […]
Facebook meets with artists to discuss issues of censorship
In the early hours of a June Sunday, about 100 or so nude people took to the space outside Facebook’s Manhattan headquarters. There, they posed for photographer Spencer Tunick while […]
Violaine Lochu, Meat me
No single work of art has touched me as deeply as Violaine Lochus‘s Meat me in the last two years. Performing alone, her body half naked, her soul incarnated by […]
Towards postmodernism: the emergence of artists from Coenties Slip
From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, the Coenties Slip district, located near the docks at the southern tip of Manhattan, was home to a group of artists, who, […]
Statue by Vinnie Bagwell to replace controversial monument in Central Park
Earlier this year in April, New York City made the choice to remove a statue honouring J. Marion Sims, the 19th century doctor sometimes called the ‘father of modern gynaecology.’ […]
