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Stephan Balkenhol, renowned for his wooden sculptures and carved out of wood art pieces, is a German artist also working in other fields, like photography and drawing.

Artists should be very sensitive to their surroundings and the context in which they find themselves. They should, however, also stay true to themselves and make sure that the strong market and its attractiveness does not commercialize them.

Duncan Campbell won this year’s Turner Prize with his ambitious and complex film It for Others 2013, which the artist says is about ‘how you can understand certain histories through objects’.

St. Petersburg’s Palace Square and State Hermitage Museum served as venues for the biggest public event in celebration of the museum's 250th anniversary on December 7 with a musical light show called “The Ball of History” on the eve of the important date.

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, the most extensive exhibition of the artist’s late work ever mounted, debuts the newly conserved monumental cut-out The Swimming Pool

In 2012, Larry Gagosian’s galleries presented “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011”, an international exhibition featuring over three-hundred pieces from Damien Hirst’s colourful spot series. The opening took place simultaneously on January 12th in all eleven Gagosian galleries (found in London, Paris, Rome, Geneva, Athens, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and New York).

Nedko Solakov, a Bulgarian artist, well known for his narrative works, combining texts on life observations and all possible media he works in, gave an interview to Artdependence Magazine.

Collectors’ Insatiable Appetite for Art Drives Sotheby’s New York Auctions of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art And Mellon Masterworks to $1.06 Billion / £667.9 Million / HK$8.25 Billion

Michael Huijser, who became the director of Rembrandt House Museum in spring 2014, talks about the future of the museum and explains why the "storytelling" format is worth paying attention to.

November 12 - POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE at Christie's (New York, Rockefeller Plaza)

The first exhibition at the MMK 2 – “Boom She Boom: Works from the MMK Collection (19 October 2014 – 14 June 2015) is devoted to women artists in the MMK collection.

Christie’s presents the ultimate work from Matin Kippenberger’s self-portrait series to be included in the new york evening sale of post-war and contemporary art

The previous interview, and our first, was with Fred Bidwell, director of The Transformer Station Museum, Ohio, USA, who told us about the museum and named one of his favorite artworks - Hiroshi Sugimoto's ‘Henry VIII’, which happens to be in the Guggenheim collection. Now Carmen Hermo, the Assistant Curator for Collections at the Guggenheim, and curator for the Young Collectors Council acquisition committee, continues our chain interview project by telling Art Dependence Magazine about the curatorial practices and acquisition policies of the Guggenheim, the Young Collectors Council and ways of promoting the museum’s collection such as blogging and apps. Following an established tradition, Carmen also names one of her favorite works.

The futuristic Fondation Louis Vuitton, commissioned by Bernard Arnault and designed by Frank Gehry, located in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, in now opened.

Broken glass and barbed wire always play a major role in describing Kendell Geers' attitude to what is going on in the world. The range of media used is very diverse: sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and drawing. Kendell Geers has exhibited globally and took part in a number of events: Documenta, Taipei Biennial, Lyon Biennial, Glasstress at the Venice Biennial to name a few. He also had solo shows in Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Gent, Palais de Tokyo, Haus der Kunst in Munich etc.

Born in Glasgow in 1981, and educated at Edinburgh College of Art, and the Slade School of Art, respectively. Paterson belongs to a successful crop of Scottish artists who have broken onto the international art scene in recent times.

Latitude Link is a theatrical production and licensing company led by Ralph and Gail Bryan. Their productions have won numerous awards, have been seen in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Korea, Singapore, South Africa and Japan and have been enjoyed by over 12 million people since the company's inception in 2005. Most of the shows are well known to everyone: “Jersey Boys”, “Memphis”, “Matilda”, “Rocky” and some others.

Surprisingly, there has never been such a serious survey of young and promising painters as that done by "100 Painters of Tomorrow", which presents a thorough and careful selection out of 4300 applicants from 105 countries. Among the jurors of the project were artists, curators, critics, art historians and collectors. Substantial input was also provided by a meaningful number of international painting schools, which were able to recommend their prominent students, current or former, for the juror's panel consideration. This publication is a reference book for curators and collectors, as well as a source of inspiration for artists and a wonderful selection for art lovers.

Paul Gaffney is an Irish artist whose self-published book We Make the Path by Walking was nominated for the Photobook Award 2013 at the sixth International Photobook Festival in Kassel, Germany, and shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography 2013. The book was selected for several 'Best Photobooks of 2013' lists, including Photo-Eye and British Journal of Photography. Apart from the wonderful photographs and an unusual design, the book invites us to make our own internal and meditative journey into nature.

For more than 20 years Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell have been gathering an extensive collection of contemporary photography. When the Bidwell Foundation made a decision to acquire the Transformer Station (built in 1924), restore and expand it with a contemporary addition to make a new space for contemporary art in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) it might have seemed an unmanageable task for anyone, but not for the Bidwells.