I very much enjoyed Art Unlimited, more so than the large fair itself. In this section of Art Basel, larger works are on view and for sale.
Michelangelo Pistoletto created a maze of corrugated cardboard leading to a mirror in the center (the medium he is best known for).
I am never certain what is happening or [...]

I headed down to Louisville, Kentucky for the first time to check out the hotel/museum 21c owned by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson. The red penguin, seen above in pajamas for their annual pajama party fundraiser, is the logo and mascot of the establishment. The 90-room property, which occupies five 19th-century brick buildings on West [...]

My absolute favorite part of Art Basel was a new special exhibition project called Art Parcours. Throughout the city for three successive nights, site-specific artworks and performances by 10 artists were on view. Located in the historic center in both public spaces and historic buildings, the works were created to “engage both with today’s Basel [...]

An American who was born in 1957 in Cuba and died in 1996, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ created stunningly beautiful works of art. Like Basquiat, Torres created a great deal of work in a short amount of time. Cleverly, the work is spread throughout the galleries of the Fondation Beyeler therefore engaging and dialoguing with the works [...]

The exhibition The New Decor at Hayward Gallery includes work by  36 artists from 22 different countries and features works and installations that “take design as a point of departure. By transforming or subverting the appearance and display of everyday furniture, these artworks demolish the accepted etiquette of interior design and the idealized image of [...]

Also on view at the Hayward is The Edges of the World, a massive installation by Ernesto Neto. Unlike his large work created for the Park Avenue Armory in 2009, this work is made of many different materials and is broken into specific pieces in separate rooms. Outside is a lareg steel sculpture made from discs that [...]

Yinka Shonibare’s Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is the first commission by a black British artist and also the first one that is specifically linked to the history of Trafalgar Square. It takes the notion of awe and childish wonder of a ship in a bottle to a monumental [...]

Throughout history charms and talismans made from natural materials were given spiritual power or were believed to transmit that power to their human owners. Artists in this exhibition make art from once living materials which act as reminders of death and decay and help us to create narratives about the world and our place in [...]

The Chinese artist, Xu Bing, currently has a work on view in the “Dead or Alive” exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design. The acclaimed artist Xu Bing has worked in a variety of media throughout his career. His works are original and creative and often related to materials from the natural world. In [...]

In this period when art can be a bit shall we say out there and hard to understand, the imagery on mouth-blown stained glass panels that Kiki creates for this show is refreshing and brings us back to our most basic humanity. Reminiscent of Mary Cassatt, the female figures at different stages of life are [...]