This year’s pavilion (they are designed by someone new each year) is designed by architect Jean Nouvel. The bright red structure makes quite a statement in its natural environs.
Swedish artist Klara Liden was trained as an architect but it is her video and installation work that is on view at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington [...]

As one left the Frieze tents and entered into an adjacent outdoor space in Regent’s Park, there were a number of public sculptures on view. “Trash” by Ganter and Aune is a “performance sculpture” made up of refuse they found on the streets of Berlin. It sits upon a forklift and can be raised in [...]

You have plenty of time to see this show which is up through January 2, 2011. Nara is a leading artist of Japan’s Neo Pop art movement. The children and animals he uses as subjects make his work popular to a broad audience. This is the first major exhibition of his work in New York [...]

I entered the spacious and sunny studio and first met Matthew, Marc’s studio manager and then the man himself. Both men were extremely friendly and engaging. As Marc and I began speaking, Matthew got down to work donning his latex blue gloves and adhering individual rhinestones to elk antlers. Hard to believe that this labor [...]

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 [...]

I never met the artist Louise Bourgeois but the stories I heard made me wish I had. Full of life and working up until her final days, I admired her feisty spirit and the love and emotion she poured into her creations. I was introduced to her work with the spider that filled the Turbine [...]

For those of you who are regular readers, you already know that I am a huge fan of the artist Antony Gormley. Well, for his public art installation currently on view in Madison Square Park in Manhattan, he hits it out of the park–pun intended. Though the work was originally created in 2007 for London’s [...]

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Yesterday while checking out some of the open studios in Chelsea I ran into a friend. It turns out she introduced me to to someone working on a very cool project that some of you have probably walked right by without noticing. It is something for you to be aware of. Rodney Durso, an artist [...]

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A collaboration with the architects, Foster and Partners, the red, gold and brown stage curtain is a “deconstructed image of the hall’s seating on a background of chocolate brown velour.” This is the first curtain design for Kuitca, who has previously designed opera sets in his hometown of Buenos Aires. He has often explored the [...]

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For London based Hauser and Wirth’s grand opening of their space in New York they chose to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Allan Kaprow’s “happenings.” Three contemporary artists were invited to interpret some of his most famous works including Environment Yard, the piece on view at Hauser and Wirth’s 69th Street space. The original work was [...]