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Art World Legend Jeffrey Deitch on Vanessa Beecroft and Kim Kardashian
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Art World Legend Jeffrey Deitch on Vanessa Beecroft and Kim Kardashian

For the fifth installment of Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou’s series of interviews on iconic exhibitions in commercial galleries, the curator-duo talk to gallerist Jeffrey Deitch about the Vanessa Beecroft performance that launched his New York gallery in 1996. Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou: You launched your gallery on Grand Street in New York in 1996 with a celebrated performance...

The Barber of Seville: Old Favorite, Contemporary Charm
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The Barber of Seville: Old Favorite, Contemporary Charm

It’s hard to resist the cheery, familiar music and vocals of The Barber of Seville. One of the most beloved operas and certainly among the most familiar, Barber is a perennial crowd pleaser; but any worthy company that stages it knows not to be lazy about the production. Barber calls for quality performance, enjoyable, and...

For Guadalupe Maravilla, Optimism Is the First Medicine
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For Guadalupe Maravilla, Optimism Is the First Medicine

Wherever he goes, Guadalupe Maravilla plays a childhood game called tripa chuca, or ‘rotten guts’. Two people take turns connecting numbers on paper by drawing lines that cannot touch, creating a map that tracks how they charted a path in relation to each other. Maravilla played tripa chuca throughout his journey from El Salvador to the United States in...

Yto Barrada on Fixing the World with a Dye Garden
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Yto Barrada on Fixing the World with a Dye Garden

In the first interview in a new series dedicated to artists’ work beyond art, we (Art Basel) speak to Yto Barrada about her vision for The Mothership, a community-led research center grounded in the Moroccan landscape. Artists don’t just make art. Over a decade ago, this realization led to the launch of ‘The Future of Art Practices:...

Why Milan Is More Than Just Fashion and Design
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Why Milan Is More Than Just Fashion and Design

Contemporary art has found its footing in the home of Salone del Mobile When contemporary art and Milan come up in conversation, many observers point to one seminal event that put the city on the art world’s radar: Expo 2015. Before the world’s fair, Milan’s two leading creative industries – fashion and design – routinely...

Inner Worlds | Fashion designer Guo Pei
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Inner Worlds | Fashion designer Guo Pei

The haute couturière behind Rihanna’s iconic Met Gala dress creates wearable masterpieces that put Chinese cultural heritage center stage. Art Basel’s ‘Inner Worlds’ film series visits creatives in the places that most inspire them Discover the world of Guo Pei, the renowned Chinese couturière and founder of Rose Studio. For the latest episode of our...

2023 Art Market Report
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2023 Art Market Report

Art Basel and UBS present The Art Market Report 2023, an annual global art market analysis. The Art Market Report provides a review of the international art market, highlighting some of the most important trends and developments taking place each year. Authored by Dr. Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, it is an independent and...

Benin Bronzes Are Made of German Brass
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Benin Bronzes Are Made of German Brass

The renowned Benin Bronzes are composed of metal sourced from Germany, according to a study published April 5, 2023 in PLOS ONE by Tobias Skowronek of the Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Germany, and colleagues. The Benin Bronzes collectively refers to thousands of African artworks in the form of heads, plaques, figurines, and other objects produced by...

Thomas Blackshear casts new light on the canon of Western American art
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Thomas Blackshear Casts New Light on the Canon of Western American Art

In collaboration with Stetson, the artist personifies the hidden Black cowboy, reimagining Lon Megargee’s iconic painting ‘The Last Drop From His Stetson’ The American West has its own mythology, bolstered by characters who’ve taken on their own significance over the course of their representation across film and painting and literature: Natives and cowboys, the horses...