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Guy Kennaway’s comic novel The Accidental Collector follows the fortunes of Herman Gertsch who enters the art world somewhat by hazard and rises to become a powerful dealer with galleries in Zurich, London and New York. Gertsch’s impeccably curated world starts to unravel when he relocates to Somerset in the southwest of England and underestimates the wily locals’ resistance to his enriched perfectionism. Kennaway is based in Pilton, Somerset, and recently wrote a book on assisted...

Full disclosure: four years after watching Renzo Martens’s documentary Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008), which served as shock therapy for the art-world in its time, I am still traumatized by it. The point the Dutch artist wanted to convey with this film was that the overexploited residents of remote areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would do well to enjoy their supposedly most valuable resource: poverty. In the film, Martens sets up a workshop and encourages some impoveri...

Date Time Vanderbilt’s Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice features works by revolutionary composer, renowned artist Vanderbilt University’s Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice initiative has announced its spring programs, which will feature works by African American composer Julius Eastman and Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama. The lineup includes a panel of leading experts discussing Eastman’s impact on artistic activism, a Vanderbilt Blair School of Music performance highlighting East...

‘SafeEntry, a national digital check-in system that collects personal data for contact tracing, has become a metonym for Singapore’s efficient management of the COVID-19 pandemic,’ observes Wong Bing Hao in their review of Heman Chong’s solo exhibition at STPI. Safe Entry (Version 2.0 – 2.7) (2020), a suite of eight, near-identical paintings of QR codes on flesh-coloured backgrounds, opens the show. Upon scanning, viewers are directed to a point-of-view video of Chong walking throug...

How I Got Here: Zak Kyes Graphic designer and creative director Zak Kyes has brought ideas to life for publications, cultural institutions, and modern day visionaries like Frank Ocean and Virgil Abloh. He talks to us about his journey 09/03/2021 10:00 am When your design practice entails facilitating the vision of leading creatives, at some point the parameters shift to reveal that you yourself are shaping culture. In 2005, Swiss-American designer and creative director Zak Kyes founded his ep...

Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 13.45 EST A Mexican artist whose work powerfully and sometimes bloodily shines light on the violence of drug-related organised crime in her country has been shortlisted to produce work for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. Organisers of one of the world’s most prestigious contemporary public art commissions revealed a shortlist of six artists. Two will be chosen and announced in the summer, with their work unveiled in 2022 and 2024. Teresa Margolles is one...

He captivated readers around the world with Captain Corellis Mandolin, his tale of a doomed love affair set in wartime Greece. But it seems that best-selling author Louis de Bernieres no longer melts hearts north of the England-Scotland border. For I can disclose that he has just been unceremoniously sacked as Patron of the British Banjo Mandolin and Guitar Federation because of, he believes, his views about how to resolve the question of Scottish independence. I have actually been cancelled, h...

Having made a splash in 2020 with her magical exhibition I Am Not the Only One but Many, at Mayfair’s ritzy Massimo De Carlo gallery, Korean artist Yee Sookyung has further solidified herself as a pioneer of porcelain ceramics. Harnessing the ancient craft of Kintsugi — the art of rejoining broken pottery pieces back together with 24K gold leaf — the 58-year-old’s captivating works earned her a feature in Tatler Hong Kong in 2018, after her coup de mâitre at the 57th ...

In the 1920s, Paris was an art market center. Dealers on the Left Bank were known for nurturing adventurous new talent, with Léonce Roseberg showing Georges Braque and Fernand Léger, while Paul Guillaume was promoting Derain and Matisse. Meanwhile, the city’s secondary art market, led by the Hôtel Drouot auction house and dealers including Nathan Wildenstein, and Ernest and René Gimpel, was a world leader during the interwar years. But the outbreak of World War II prompted an exodus of l...

Fergal Kinney , March 1st, 2021 09:31 On the 20th anniversary of their one and only studio album, Any Other City, 
Fergal Kinney speaks to Life Without Buildings about their short productive life and their incredibly long tail In pop music, and the cottage industry set up to auto-mythologise it, there’s little premium higher than the small coterie of bands whose skimpy discographies are inverse to their XXL influence – Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Young Marble Giants, Slint, Television. You...