MILAN — Despite economic woes, Italy is the main exporter of furnishings to China, the world’s second largest economy.
Artist and art educator Abe L. Orobio believes that forging one’s own path is of greater significance than relying on inherited fame.
This forces wealthy punters to traverse Frieze London spreading love (and ideally money) as they go.
This October, the Soho art scene will be set ablaze as DTR Modern Gallery presents INNERSTATES, the internationally acclaimed artist Bisco Smith’s latest solo exhibition.
Vulgar, yes, but tasteful vulgarity is the name of the game here: A wooden cross stands adjacent to an image best described as Big Bird trapped in a coloring book, only vaguely aware of his plight; a clown-alien-demon pops up in the corner of a scene like a jumpscare.
Nan Goldin has had a lot on her plate as of late, travelling around the world to organise several exhibitions – including a major career retrospective – working with Laura Poitras on the Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, and continuing her fight against the orchestrators of the US opioid crisis.
The exhibition In the Footsteps of the Stars: The Embroidered Worlds of Britta Marakatt-Labba is the artist’s largest retrospective in both Sápmi and Sweden with a rich and poetic narrative about the cultural and territorial struggles of the Sámi, mainland Europe’s only indigenous people.