Staged in the museum's decorative arts wing, "Au Louvre" is a game of hide-and-seek: his own works are planted in period rooms for visual harmony. Saws sit on a shelf,among 19th century plates…
Following Anish Kapoor and Christian Boltanski, it is Daniel Buren's turn to be Paris's guest and the subject of the annual, majestic solo exhibition "Monumenta" at the Grand Palais. A lifetime oppo…
After recording a folk- and jazz-inspired album, Battle Songs, with his band Rowboat, (produced by buddies Dike Blair and Richard Prince),Rian designed a specially formatted box. He then asked 10…
Lovers, strangers, family members, everyone who crosses the life of artist Sophie Calle is implicated in her multi-media tests of the porosity of intimacy and public space—famously without their knowl…
"Miraculous Beginnings," the title of Lebanese artist Walid Raad's current solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery, East London, takes a Biblical tack while alluding to his country's troublesome first ye…
Armenian, Los Angeles-born Larry Gagosian (b.1954) was once nicknamed "Go-Go" for his skill at re-selling art works. Today, with nine eponymous galleries, and artists under his belt ranging from Pablo…
The question of how one defines and delimits a work of art is neither new nor in danger of resolution. This year, Frieze's sculpture park (which closed yesterday) offered a wide range of work with see…
Since the assimilation of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, and now perhaps reaching its pinnacle as Jeffrey Deitch prepares his programming at MoCA, street art has been a part of contemporary ar…
Anselm Kiefer's (b. 1945) work brings to mind ruins and monuments, canvases coated with crumbling impasto, lead, tar and straw to depict the rich, mythical mnemonic layers of tragedy and regeneration…
Parisian house Pierre Bergé & Associé seems determined to introduce the nation of France to Israeli contemporary art, through a series of multiple efforts: On May 6, the house held France's first ever…