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Jeju is a blackened island off the coast of Korea, an exotic upsurge of volcanic rock which in 2007 was named a World Heritage Site, thanks to its mysterious geology. It was here Greek/British artist Mikhail Karikis first heard the cry of the haenyeo. “I heard a very high-pitched sound coming from the sea. At first I thought it was a bird call or maybe seals,” he tells me via phone. “I asked my friend to stop the car and I saw a pod of black figures in the water.”

I’m mostly passionate and determined. I feel strong but not confident yet - I think it takes a while to get there. I’m also very demanding towards others and myself, and of course towards my work. I’m hardly ever satisfied, which is good on one hand and exhausting on the other.

Cristina Iglesias has said on many occasions that she defines her practice as building, rather than as sculpting. Her work has in fact an architectural approach, not only for the technical requirements of her sculptures, but also due to the ambitious challenges she achieves.

Samuel Saelemakers, Curator for Witte de With, is well aware of the careful balance that is required of curatorship - a balance between charging creativity and its controlled manifestation.

Apparently surreal and fantastic, Anj Smith’s paintings approach very realistic elements and current human matters. Her largest solo exhibition ‘Phosphor on the Palms’, currently on show at Hauser & Wirth London, is the culmination of three years of work and the expression of a new phase for the artist who, after twenty years painting, feels more brave and bolder than ever. Artdependence talked with Anj Smith about painting, art, languages and fashion in an interview at Hauser&Wirth London last October.

Zhanna Kadyrova, (1981, Ukraine) forms part of the new generation of Ukrainian artists, who have been deeply influenced by the difficult period of national self-determination during the Orange Revolution of 2004, and who have experienced the entire burden of rethinking of the controversies of the past, reformulating present dangers, and representing hopes for the future. "Hope" also happened to be the name of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, in which Zhanna participated for the second time.

Christie’s is honored to announce the sale of an extraordinary, seminal, museum-quality work by Roy Lichtenstein unseen on the market for 20 years.

From a contemporary point of view, textiles are a powerful source of political and social symbolism. Textile crafting such as embroiderers, quilts or tapestries are a universal form of creative expression, present in the tradition of many communities around the world. Their nature as decorative and domestic elements and also its link with manufacturing processes makes them objects of artistic and socio-political representation.

It is not a book you can read because it was never meant to be read. The publisher describes it as a playscript, but it seems highly unlikely that anyone could use it without supplementary knowledge to produce the piece it purports to script. Costume En Face was meant to be used by its writer, and perhaps by others doing the same kind of work, to take the work deeper. Period. It is an archival object rather than a traditional piece of writing.

Reintroducing the body into his works, Imran Qureshi applies paint to the pain of a region under seize. As Rajesh Punj scrutinises the grief and grandeur of his inaugural show at ROPAC, Paris.

On 9th December this year, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale John Constable's The Lock - one of the small group of monumental landscapes.

LALIQUE, the French crystal maker, is proud to unveil a new collaboration with Elton John. The Elton John Music is Love for Lalique includes seven exceptional crystal sculptures: three limited editions and four unique pieces. The three limited edition sculptures are available from today at Lalique boutiques worldwide, with 10% of the proceeds to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

The twenty-ninth edition of the Florence International Biennial Antiques Fair – BIAF – will be held from 26 September to 4 October. 88 dealers in ancient and modern art, including 27 foreign antiquarians, will come to Palazzo Corsini sull'Arno to display scrupulously selected works of impeccable quality.

As a centerpiece of the October Photographs auctions, Phillips is pleased to announce the single owner sale, Innovators of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection.

Sotheby’s is pleased to announce that its 5 November 2015 Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art will feature one of the finest works by Kazimir Malevich.

This work by Anish Kapoor is universal; it has nothing to do with the King or the Queen, with Versailles or France. Appreciated in 2011 in Italy, it will be just as liked throughout the world, because this work speaks of light, of birth, of life’s journey, of the unknown: the mystery and darkness that surround death. It also tells us that we all come from the same planet and that we have to love it.

There was a time when a trip to Europe could be described as ‘Grand’. Long before bargain flights, crossing the continent was a major undertaking. It was part education, part shopping trip, and if you weren’t wealthy, or at least in the retinue of someone who was, it was beyond your means. Grand Tours flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries, a time during which the nobility stocked their stately homes with artworks and antiquities from the Mediterranean lands. In 2015, they still have an exclusive aura, or did so until the arrival of Pablo Bronstein.

Revisions and Alternative Ending to Revolutionary Song Revealed for the First Time. Estimated £150,000-200,000 at Sotheby's.

Dutch artist Hellen van Meene is well known for her style of photographic portraiture. Van Meene’s works depict mostly adolescents, but there are also sometimes small children or even animals. When looking at these photographs it is hard to say exactly when and where they were made. The background is only available at a glimpse, and the nondescript clothes pull the viewer’s attention completely towards the model. The subject’s postures and facial expressions that van Meen captures can almost paralyze the viewer, so deep is the experience of immersion, as Hellen van Meene stops the moment and captures the viewer within the world of these children.

Zaha Hadid Architects, working with Leonhardt, Andrä & Partner and Sinotech Engineering Consultants, have won the international competition to design the new Danjiang Bridge in Taipei for the Directorate General of Highways, Taiwan, R.O.C. Located at the mouth of Tamsui River that flows through the capital Taipei, the Danjiang Bridge is integral to the infrastructure upgrading program of northern Taiwan.