November is shaping up to be a very good month for art in Chelsea. On November 6, Pace Gallery New York will open three exhibitions across its West 25th Street spaces, moving from dreamlike new paintings to rarely seen works by an American avant-garde icon and a major installation by one of contemporary art’s most […]
Paris is coming to Bellas Artes. This November, Centre Pompidou Mexico City becomes a reality as works from the Paris institution arrive at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes for Las formas de la energía. Obras emblemáticas del Centre Pompidou. Opening November 12, the exhibition brings a selection from one of the world’s most […]
A pear nearly as commanding as a person. A glossy apple blown up beyond recognition. An enormous egg covered in a mottled glaze. Hans Hedberg ceramics took the most familiar forms and made them impossible to ignore. Born in Sweden in 1917, Hedberg originally trained as a painter, studying in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Paris. His […]
For Giuseppe Penone, a tree is never simply a tree. Born in Garessio, Italy, in 1947, Penone emerged in the late 1960s as one of the central figures of Arte Povera, the Italian movement that challenged traditional artmaking through humble and unconventional materials. While others worked with everything from rags to industrial debris, Penone turned […]