Conceptual Artist Barbara Kruger Creates a New Work for the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

FRANKFURT.-The US-American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger has created a new, publicly accessible installation for the Rotunda of the Schirn, which covers floor, ceiling, and surrounding walls with the white- and partly red-on-black captions typical of her oeuvre. “I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t,” says Kruger, whose show is presented in the Schirn from December 15, 2010 until January 30, 2011. Pictures and texts from the mass media, [...]

Drawings by Laurie Lipton

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach [...]

Captivating Exhibition Exploring the Notion of Time in Photographs Opens in Melbourne

MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria presents Timelines: Photography and Time, a captivating exhibition exploring the notion of time in photographs. Timelines features almost forty photographs from the NGV Collection by both Australian and international photographers including work by Diane Arbus, Micky Allan and Bill Brandt. Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography, NGV said photography has a unique role to play in capturing the way that time passes. “The camera’s ability to ‘stop the clock’ enables the medium to direct [...]

New Work by William Eggleston and Rare Photos by Diane Arbus at Cheim & Read

NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read present two concurrent photography exhibitions featuring, respectively, a selection of rarely shown photographs by Diane Arbus and new work by William Eggleston. The installation of Arbus’s work, shown here under the title “In the Absence of Others”, brings together a group of photographs of empty interiors and artificial landscapes spanning the 1960s. The Eggleston exhibition is titled “21st Century”. A presentation of this work is also on view at the Victoria Miro Gallery in [...]