We are standing in the middle of Koons’s quarter-city-block West Chelsea studio complex with the six children he has with his wife, Justine, who worked here before she married him; […]
Between 1999 and 2010, austrian photographer Christoph Grill visited the successor states of the Soviet Union. As he writes in the epilogue to Short Stalks at Distant Shores – the resulting comprehensive […]
You recognise Keith Haring’s work instantly: thick outlines of faceless people wildly waving limbs, barking dogs and other pop culture icons, filled out with bright block colours, a fresh, punk […]
Juergen Teller was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1964. He studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt fur Photographie in Munich, Germany. He has lived and worked in London since 1986. In […]
“Light is the origin of all being. Light gives, with each moment, new form to being and new interrelationships to things, and architecture condenses light to its most concise being. […]
Born in Stuttgart in 1930, Herzog lived all the dramas of the second world war. Evacuation from his city during aerial bombardments and loss of his parents for consequences related […]
Edward Hopper said that Nighthawks was inspired by “a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet,” but the image, with its carefully constructed composition and lack of narrative, has […]
Judging solely by the numerous photobooks and news reports that have inundated the West in the past ten years, modern China appears alternatively as a skyscraper laden wonderland or a […]
Located in northern Spain, about five hours from Madrid, the Rioja countryside has become one of the world’s leading laboratories for two seemingly unrelated creative pursuits: architecture and winemaking. But […]
Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch remains one of the most influential and significant novels to appear in Latin America after the Second World War. It is, in part, notorious for its unusual presentation: it comes with a “Table of Instructions”. There Cortázar announces: “In its own way, this book consists of many books, but two books above all.”
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