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The contemporary art world has addressed inequalities between genders in a varied range of ways, whether it is by organising exhibitions only with female artists (see Saatchi Gallery’s last show, Champagne Life) or by selecting artworks that focuses on themes around identity and its socio-political dimension. It is less usual, though, to place both genders together and dedicate a show to the relationship between both. This is the purpose of curator Federica Chiocchetti, founding director of the photo-literary platform Photocaptionist, when curating the 2016 Photo50’s exhibition ‘Feminine Masculine: On the Struggle and Fascination of Dealing with the Other Sex’.

Somewhere between fantasy and reality, superpowers and fragility, you can locate the paintings of Philip Mueller (Austria, 1988). As his solo exhibition “Dreams in Blue. The Year Philip Mueller didn’t Wake Up” is about to open at Carbon 12 Gallery, the young artist shares the following within this interview: “[In this series] you can see everything I experienced during the last year. It was wild and beautiful.”

Capturing 17-year-old Bernadine Coverley while pregnant with Bella Freud to be offered at auction for first time.

Gerhard Richter’s spectacular Abstraktes Bild previously held in the artist’s private collection to lead Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 10 February 2016.

My work is an attempt to make the inanimate trigger emotional responses. It is tactile yet distant, seductive yet disconcerting, familiar yet alien, absurd yet sensible, inanimate yet ‘alive’.

David Bowie (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter, and actor. Bowie was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was known as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His androgynous appearance was an iconic element of his image, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. On 10 January 2016 (just two days after his 69th birthday), Bowie died from cancer following an eighteen-month battle with the disease.

Belgian artist Elien Ronse sleeps in a different place every night. Since 2015 she abandoned her hometown of Ghent to undertake a project that delves into domesticity. Overwhelmed by the monotony of her own life, she chose to escape into the lives of others. Her project has taken her through hundreds of houses in Berlin, Vienna, Taiwan, and now Athens.

Consider if you will the bolster, a firm tubular pillow used in continental Europe. Right now some 420 of them flood the atrium of the Musée des beaux arts in Calais. They flow from a balcony to the ground floor, where they puddle in a spotlit maze. Amidst this intimate nest, abject puppets sprawl, and play out dark vignettes. But although there is a story here, the narrative is as private as a locked bedroom.

“Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957”, curated by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston Massachusetts and featuring archival materials, plus work by close to 100 artists, is the first major exhibition to focus on this unique moment of educational and artistic experimentation in Asheville North Carolina. With no external oversight, on the grounds of a former summer camp, progressive educator John Rice began designing Black Mountain's buildings collaboratively with a small group of students and colleagues who had seceded from a school in Florida that dismissed him for questioning its pedagogical strategies.

I’m an artist who makes videos, installations, performances, prints. My undergraduate degree is in Computer Science, and my graduate degree is an MFA in Art Criticism. So I am a person who is “good at computers”, but who has spent a lot of time thinking about art, technology, aesthetics, and politics. I use my programming abilities to create art that is connected to the theoretical and critical positions that interest me: the nature of images, the power of the archive, and the nexus of the political and the spiritual.

It seems that in recent years, we’ve been looking and even longing for the stars like we haven’t in decades. NASA announcements and films as Avatar, Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian reached millions of eager people. Have we, in spite of our optimism and belief in technological possibilities, abandoned all hope for our home, plagued as it is by continual crises and human pollution? Are we unconsciously searching for a new one in outer space?

New research in the archives has made it possible to pinpoint the exact location of Johannes Vermeer’s world-famous 'The Little Street'. Frans Grijzenhout, Professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam, consulted seventeenth-century records that had never before been used for this purpose and clearly indicate the site of 'The Little Street' in Delft.

I would like to create a response in people, a feeling or a thought. I am always thinking of my audience as an intelligent one that can think and feel something.

Following the weekend of the November 13th Paris tragedy I was looking to escape my sadness through an immersion into art and its transformational powers. I thought I might find this by visiting the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to see Random International’s Rain Room exhibition.

Andrew Sendor (1977, U.S.A.) is the type of artist who revels in the use of different and differing media, mixing the visual effects in such a way that the viewer must decipher not only the subject of the work, but also the technique. All of Sendor’s works give the impression that they have been taken out of context, appearing as the imprint of a moment from the artist’s narrative. It is up to the viewer to then build up the story around these presented moments.

For 16 days in June 2016, Italy’s Lake Iseo will be reimagined. 70,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 200,000 high-density polyethylene cubes, will undulate with the movement of the waves as The Floating Piers rise just above the surface of the water.

Visiting an exhibition preview can impede an uninhibited view at the art at hand, but in the event of a large-scale installation that opens to the invitees at a specific time, it can also have a magical shine, as if you enter and explore a shrine together. However, this heightened sense of wonder can only partly explain why I was overwhelmed by a wave of goose flesh, even before I fully set foot in Kimsooja’s latest installation. That is the impact her art can have.

My personality and temperament are quite average, I think, but I am always aware of the unique world I can create.

In August 2015, North America’s most comprehensive international contemporary art fair - Art Basel - announced the appointment of Noah Horowitz to the new position of Director of The Americas. The news regarding the appointment of the Armory director to take over the leadership of Art Basel Miami, less than six months prior to its next edition, stirred up the already restless art scene. Noah Horowitz talks with Artdependence Magazine about his own preferences in art, the sources for his inspirations, and the art market’s adaptation to change.

The Fondation Carmignac presented last 18th November at the Saatchi Gallery a retrospective exhibition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award, showing for the first time a selection of the awarded projects since its creation in 2009. With the aim of bringing awareness to issues that may have been forgotten or underrepresented in mainstream news media, this award offers an artistic approach to photojournalism and a platform for it to be displayed both in an exhibition space and in a publication.