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Make this Easter an art-filled one with Thomas Demand and Open Studio The German artist likes to get creative with eggs. Here’s how he does it, and how you can do it too No one thinks of the German artist Thomas Demand as a simple illustrator. Indeed, our book Open Studio characterises him as “a self-described conceptual artist.” “He has become internationally famous for making life-size paper and cardboard sculptures that are reconstructions from photographs of actual spaces, like Jackson Pollock’s studio or the hotel room where L. Ron Hubbard stayed while writing Dianetics,” the...

A Wholly Revamped Museum Will Open in Spain to House the Contemporary Art Collection of Dealer Helga de Alvear German art collector and dealer Helga de Alvear is gifting her entire collection to a Spanish region. Exterior of the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear. Photo: Amores Pictures. This spring, a city in Spain will become a European art destination when it opens a major expansion to one of the continent’s leading collections of contemporary art. German art collector and dealer Helga de Alvear, who is also one of the founders of the fair ARCOMadrid, has amassed a formidable...

A Painter Reconsiders the Photographs of Luigi Ghirri For Matt Connors, who recently curated an exhibition from the Italian artist’s archive, Ghirri’s photographs are built rather than composed—things rather than images. Luigi Ghirri, Paesaggio italiano Before Luigi Ghirri turned to photography, he worked as a land surveyor, an occupation that fostered a way of seeing. Typically taken from a frontal vantage point, his photographs describe the surfaces of what’s before the camera with what at first feels like directness, but upon closer inspection is more akin to a visual puzzle. (He ...

The most important moments in art in 2020 Noah Davis, Untitled, 2015 © The Estate of Noah Davis. Courtesy The Estate of Noah Davis. by Holland Cotter, Roberta Smith and Jason Farago NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The year was a 12-month stress test. When I asked friends, “How are you?” the repeat answers came: “Anxious,” “depressed,” “bored.” The first two I could relate to, but bored is something I rarely am. As a journalist, I’m addicted to art-specific information, to taking it in, parsing it, sorting it, trying to make sense of it. And there’s been a ton of it this year, all pr...