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Shuang Li on Finding the Wrinkles in Technology
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Shuang Li on Finding the Wrinkles in Technology

‘The idea of having a body makes me cringe,’ says artist Shuang Li, speaking via Zoom from her chilly Berlin studio. ‘Once you have a physical form, you’re trapped. I’ve always felt that – both when I make work and in daily life.’ So, it comes as no surprise that Li feels more freedom online than in IRL....

A River Runs Through It: How Artists Are Reframing the Landscape
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A River Runs Through It: How Artists Are Reframing the Landscape

From An-My Lê and Zoe Leonard to Emilija Škarnulytė and Nguyen Trinh Thi, artists are turning to rivers to illuminate the fluidity of life on earth Fourteen vertical, black-and-white photographic landscapes compose Fourteen Views (2023), a cyclorama created by Vietnamese-American photographer An-My Lê for her survey show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Taken...

ARTE EN RETROSPECTIVA
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ARTE EN RETROSPECTIVA

For this year’s Miami Art Week + Art Basel Miami, San Martin de Hidalgo tequila commissioned Londonberry Media for a series of collages in collaboration with Model Jemme Harper and Artist Valentina Misel. Explore tasting notes, puzzles, and maybe discover some unknowns. – S+P

Before the Deluge, Who Was Jean-Michel Basquiat?
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Before the Deluge, Who Was Jean-Michel Basquiat?

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–88) was by most accounts a sweet kid. He had a baby face and a distinctive walk, one foot pigeon-toed, so he was easy to spot from a block away. He was a pussycat – at least the girls said so – soft-spoken and polite. And he liked to draw. My mother-in-law, an art...

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...

Africa and Its Diaspora at Art Basel Hong Kong
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Africa and Its Diaspora at Art Basel Hong Kong

In recent years, there has been a significant explosion of interest in Modern and contemporary art by artists from Africa and of African descent. Yet, works in this category still only amount to a small percentage of global art sales worldwide, despite the decades of artistic development made explicit in two groundbreaking survey exhibitions. ‘Afro-Atlantic...