Red Desert / Il Deserto Rosso

It would be hard to overstate Michelangelo Antonioni’s influence on postwar cinema, architecture and design, fashion, and literature, even on modern conceptions of the intellectual and the erotic. Antonioni (1912–2007), whose fascination with mediated reality only deepened over time, was a restless experimenter with composition, camera movement, cutting, and storytelling.

Antonioni’s first color film Red Desert is an audiovisual tour de force. Hope you could have the chance to see it. It is like Rothko in cinema....

John Evans / Time & Place

Don't miss John Evan's exhibition Time & Place at Gallery Henoch, on view until October 28th, 2017. Evans offers what seem to be requiems for less frantic, more easygoing times. His paintings are poetic and they bring pleasure to be observed. To quote Evans: " I visualize the world as a series of collages made of natural forms and concrete structures. In these paintings, I take apart each image and re-image the part". Enjoy!

A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde

Don't miss "A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant- Garde", superb exhibition on view at MoM.A until March 12, 2017. This exhibition examines key developments and new modes of abstraction, including Suprematism and Constructivism, as well as avant-garde poetry, film and photomontage.

Vlisco: African Fashion on Global Stage

Discover the surprising story behind the colorful fabrics long associated with African fashion. The exhibition is on view until January 22, 2017 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Explore how the Dutch company Vlisco became one of the most influential textile brands in West and Central African Fashion.

Robert Irwin

Don't miss Robert Irwin: Excursus: Homage to the Square³ at Dia:Beacon, on view until May 2017.

Robert Irwin is well known for works with direct relationship to light and its power to transform a space.

Robert Irwin's permanent installation opens in Marfa: The Chinati Foundation.

An Occupation of Loss

An Occupation of Loss, an installation and performance piece designed by OMA/Shohei Shigematsu in collaboration with artist Taryn Simon, runs at New York's Park Avenue Armory from 13 to 25 September 2016. 

Photo: Naho Kubota

World premiere at Park Avenue Armory, NY: "Each night at sundown, more than thirty professional mourners populate Simon’s sculptural installation, broadcasting their lamentations. The status of the lamenters as professionals—performing away and apart from their usual contexts—underscores the tension between authentic and staged emotion, spontaneity and script. Open during the daytime, visitors are invited to activate the sculpture of inverted wells with their own sounds.  A subtle drone created from distilled recordings of the mourners’ rituals provides a white noise that echoes the evening performances.

The resulting work blends sculpture, sound, architecture, and performance in a monumental exploration of the boundaries of grief between living and dead, past and present, performer and viewer."