before the pedestal
designboom attended the opening reception for Wendell Castle: Living at Friedman Benda, where the gallery had taken on the density of a lived-in home. A Kermit the Frog toy sits on Environment (1972), Castle’s colossal stacked-walnut bed and work station, and family home videos play on a small television alongside it. Books lie beside furniture and personal objects turn up between works that now belong to the history of American design. The exhibition‘s scale can be monumental, but the rooms feel inhabited.
Curated by Castle’s daughter, Alison Castle, the exhibition begins with a June 1973 House Beautiful feature on the family’s Scottsville, New York, home. The magazine caught...
designboom attended the opening reception for Wendell Castle: Living at Friedman Benda, where the gallery had taken on the density of a lived-in home. A Kermit the Frog toy sits on Environment (1972), Castle’s colossal stacked-walnut bed and work station, and family home videos play on a small television alongside it. Books lie beside furniture and personal objects turn up between works that now belong to the history of American design. The exhibition‘s scale can be monumental, but the rooms feel inhabited.
Curated by Castle’s daughter, Alison Castle, the exhibition begins with a June 1973 House Beautiful feature on the family’s Scottsville, New York, home. The magazine caught...
Visits to Olney Gleason, Garth Greenan, David Zwirner, and more during New York's first week of fall openings
Six of the fall's new crop of gallery openings at Lomex, Maxwell Graham, Theta, David Peter Francis, Ellie Rines Gallery, and Ulrik
A fast-moving cloudburst swept through Florence on September 17, dropping nearly two inches of rain in the span of an hour and sending water cascading into the Uffizi Gallery and the historic Palazzo Pitti, sparking concern regarding the masterpieces within. At the Uffizi, rain seeped through a skylight of a gallery housing a clutch of […]
The massive burial site containing human remains and rich offerings likely belonged to Chimú elites
Taryn Simon’s ambitious show at the Guggenheim Museum, Father Country I Do Love You, begins with two text panels. One recounts a story told to her by her father, of an intelligence officer he met in Bangkok who died under mysterious circumstances — either eaten by a tiger, or kidnapped by the Chinese. It goes on to talk about her father’s penchant for taping his prized photos in plexiglass box frames. “Each came with a dramatic tale — delivering suitcases of cash to generals in Cambodia, yakuza threatening to break his arm in a door, having tea with his kidnappers in Lebanon, and starting the Thai stock exchange. I never got the full story,” reads the text.The second panel features Simon’s own...
A herd of 40 life-sized buffalo puppets migrated through Lower Manhattan today, September 18, plodding through Bowling Green, Federal Hall, the World Trade Center, Chinatown, and several other historical sites along their trail. On the second and final leg of its procession, Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi (Lakota for "buffalo trail home") will also hit downtown Brooklyn tomorrow, September 19.Theater writer and director Amir Nizar Zuabi created the project with descendants of the Lenape, the original Indigenous inhabitants of New York, and Lakota elders, whose deeply sacred relationship with the mammal dates back thousands of years. “We just followed the elders’ lead in who they wanted involved,...
A celebrity in his own right who also created riotous portraits of many famous and powerful people, Max made images that became inseparable from the legacy of the Summer of Love and countercultural movement
One of the most intimate windows into an artist’s practice is their studio. While some creatives thrive on methodical organization and tidiness, others reach their flow state amid a cluttered chaos where dozens of ideas unfold at once. Whether at one end of this spectrum or somewhere in the middle, these spaces offer unique perspectives on both the artist and the masterpieces that emerge from their confines. Forthcoming from Phaidon, Another View: The Vibrant World of Contemporary Black Artists invites readers into 20 distinctive studios. Celebrating some of the most prominent artists working today—such as Nick Cave, Nina Chanel Abney, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Kerry James Marshall, and many...
Naomi Beckwith, the curator of the forthcoming edition of Documenta, said some artists had already declined to participate in the exhibition because of Germany’s stance on Israel’s war in Gaza. Documenta, which is staged every five years in Kassel, Germany, is one of the most prestigious recurring art exhibitions in the world. But ever since the controversy that faced the last edition, in 2022, the show has faced bitter criticism, with many alleging that politicians’ accusations of antisemitism at the exhibition were born of an attempt to crack down on pro-Palestine art. The controversy has also impacted Documenta 16, whose entire curatorial selection committee resigned en masse in 2023. Beckwith, the...
Six paintings and animated film examine landscapes in transition
On September 11, Basque Luxury Studio in San Sebastián, Spain, opened ‘Azken Natura,’ a solo exhibition by Jesus Mari Lazkano. The exhibition brings together six medium- and large-scale paintings made between 2021 and 2026, alongside a screening of the short film ‘Natura Fugit,’ created by Lazkano in collaboration with production companies Dibulitoon and Art Frame. The 22-minute film premiered in 2025 at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Developed over four years, the project involved nearly 3,000 drawings by Lazkano depicting the melting of the Alpine glacier Mer de Glace. The drawings were assembled into an animated...
On September 11, Basque Luxury Studio in San Sebastián, Spain, opened ‘Azken Natura,’ a solo exhibition by Jesus Mari Lazkano. The exhibition brings together six medium- and large-scale paintings made between 2021 and 2026, alongside a screening of the short film ‘Natura Fugit,’ created by Lazkano in collaboration with production companies Dibulitoon and Art Frame. The 22-minute film premiered in 2025 at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Developed over four years, the project involved nearly 3,000 drawings by Lazkano depicting the melting of the Alpine glacier Mer de Glace. The drawings were assembled into an animated...
When Getty photographer Brendan Smialowski captured a photo on Wednesday night of Air Force One after landing at Joint Base Andrews, outside Washington, D.C., it showed president Donald Trump in a red baseball cap reading a placard that seems to read “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.” This led to an emergency Thursday filing by Joyce Beatty, Democratic US Representative for Ohio’s Third Congressional District and an ex officio trustee of the Center, asking the federal judge in the ongoing Kennedy Center case “to make crystal clear that its order prohibits demolishing the structure.” On Wednesday, Trump said, “For me to go and fix it and subsidize it, I think the Trump administration should have...
Alex Strada’s Public Address opened in the Bronx on Monday, September 14, bringing handwritten testimonies from over 400 New York shelter residents and frontline staff to a dozen locations across the borough.Using log entries from workshops held across New York City shelters, Strada, public artist-in-residence with the NYC Department of Homeless Services and Department of Cultural Affairs since 2022, translated these messages onto aluminum signs from the Department of Transportation. Visible on street corners, parks, and other high-traffic areas, the long-term installation debuted in Manhattan in October 2025 and will have appeared in all five boroughs by March 2027."My hope for this project is that it...
New archaeological discoveries at Tell Al-Abqain in Beheira are revealing details about life within the ancient Egyptian fortress, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Wednesday. According to the ministry, they also underscore Tell Al-Abqain’s importance as a military stronghold during the New Kingdom period (1570–1069 BCE), when it was established to protect Egypt against incursions by Libyan tribes. The finds, made by an Egyptian archaeological mission, include a residential complex, stelae, and, most intriguingly, the possibly ceremonial burial of a horse. In a statement, Egypt’s minister of tourism and antiquities Sherif Fathy emphasized that the discoveries not only shed...
The Moderna Museet in Stockholm named Cédric Fauq as its next curator of contemporary international art, to start in the role on December 1. He is currently the chief curator and head of programs and collections at Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, and he worked previously as a curator at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary in England. Credits of Fauq’s in Bordeaux include the group exhibition “Blackground: murmures des mornes,” “Rammellzee Alphabeta Sigma (Side B),” and Trevor Yeung’s “Garden of the Nine Suns.” He was a member of the Turner Prize jury in 2023 and teaches at HEAD in Geneva and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In a statement, Moderna Museet...
The Wreck of the Unbelievable is a strangely infectious, if uneven, little play about obsession that takes on the fantastical premise in which renowned artist Damien Hirst is dead and is survived by a gay lover named Shape (smartly played by playwright Sleth), who greets theatergoers sprawled, ass up, on a disheveled mattress reminiscent of Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” (1998). The production makes it clear that Hirst is very much alive and straight, to the best of our knowledge, but the idea makes for a weird wormhole into the nature of infatuation and the costs of being an artist who craves the good stuff — fame and fortune.The off-off-Broadway play runs over 80 minutes, though it could easily clip 15 to...
Cover of The Book of Genocides by Dana Mashoian Walrath (all images courtesy Harvard University Press, 2026)Dana Mashoian Walrath opens The Book of Genocides (2026) with her family’s own experience: Her grandmother is shown hiding in an urn while Ottoman Turkish soldiers publicly dismember her great-grandfather. Walrath renders the scene like an X-ray image, in a scratchy digital style reminiscent of charcoal sketches. Revisiting her family's horrific experience of the Armenian Genocide acts as an entry point to confronting something so vicious and scary — a moral abyss — with bracing intimacy.The graphic non-fiction book delivers on its title: Ten genocides constitute its unrelenting drumbeat, from...
Measuring 28 feet wide and seven feet tall, two monumental wooden relief sculptures anchor Beyond Silence, a new exhibition at GRAY Chicago featuring works by Catalan artist and sculptor Jaume Plensa. The broad works—titled “Julia” and “Maria”—were created as part of the artist’s recent series, Beyond Silence, which shares a name with the show. The two paneled pieces transform the gallery’s open exhibition space with their rigid angles, creating a structured rhythm to complement the subdued contours of the faces they depict. As a result, a conversation arises between Plensa’s signature overarching motifs, such as the human figure, use of architectural materials, and the perception of space....
Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (MNTB) will expand into a second venue to house more than 360 works of contemporary art, which have been donated or are on loan from the TBA21 Collection. In 2002, the philanthropist Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza founded the TBA21 Foundation for her personal collection of contemporary art, which is described as being “at […]
Found Associations explores the café as a material ecosystem
For Paris Design Week 2026, four Latvian designers and artists partnered with Kalve Coffee to explore the café as a small-scale material ecosystem, where by-products generated through everyday consumption become starting points for new forms of production. The project brings together biodesign and circular economy principles through a connected chain of material experiments, turning the café into both a source of materials and a laboratory for their transformation. Three substances generated through the café’s daily operation, used coffee grounds, dirty water, and excess foamed milk, move through a series of treatment and production stages....
For Paris Design Week 2026, four Latvian designers and artists partnered with Kalve Coffee to explore the café as a small-scale material ecosystem, where by-products generated through everyday consumption become starting points for new forms of production. The project brings together biodesign and circular economy principles through a connected chain of material experiments, turning the café into both a source of materials and a laboratory for their transformation. Three substances generated through the café’s daily operation, used coffee grounds, dirty water, and excess foamed milk, move through a series of treatment and production stages....
The Moderna Museet has named closely watched curator Cédric Fauq as its new curator of contemporary international art. Fauq arrives to the Stockholm institution from CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, in France, where he is currently chief curator and head of programs and collections. “It is a pleasure to welcome Cédric Fauq to Moderna […]
The Rio fair brings together 76 galleries as an upcoming presidential election and a new generation of collectors shape the market
The plot thickens just a few months away from the grand opening of Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels. Amid criticism that the European capital’s forthcoming and only major modern and contemporary art museum is too large and costly for taxpayers, La Libre reports that the head of Brussels’ local government wants Kanal-Centre Pompidou’s founding general director Yves Goldstein out. On Thursday, Minister-President Boris Dilliès of the center-right francophone Movement Réformateur (MR) party reportedly surprised members of the Brussels-Capital Region government, which he has led since February, when he announced he is seeking Goldstein’s immediate dismissal. After left-leaning political leaders voiced...
malba grows beneath buenos aires
On its 25th anniversary, Malba is preparing to expand beneath Plaza Perú in Buenos Aires, with Frida Escobedo Studio leading a project that will double the museum’s exhibition space. The new architecture moves underground, allowing a substantial extension of the institution while the public square continues across the surface above. Currently in design, the project is expected to open in late 2029 or early 2030.
The expansion introduces new temporary exhibition galleries alongside an auditorium and flexible spaces for public programming. Workshops and storage areas move into the enlarged footprint, while an outdoor courtyard brings open air down into the museum. From...
On its 25th anniversary, Malba is preparing to expand beneath Plaza Perú in Buenos Aires, with Frida Escobedo Studio leading a project that will double the museum’s exhibition space. The new architecture moves underground, allowing a substantial extension of the institution while the public square continues across the surface above. Currently in design, the project is expected to open in late 2029 or early 2030.
The expansion introduces new temporary exhibition galleries alongside an auditorium and flexible spaces for public programming. Workshops and storage areas move into the enlarged footprint, while an outdoor courtyard brings open air down into the museum. From...
As the auction house continues to celebrate 40 years of operating in Asia, its exciting line-up of September sales offers renowned global artists alongside those with strong markets in the region
Artist Engineering Hardware is a new system that aims to reduce damage during transport and installation by eliminating direct contact with works of art
Walk into the first gallery of the group exhibition Thresholds at the Haggerty Museum of Art, and you’ll encounter dozens of hand brooms installed in long rows. Scraps of ribbons, cords, and braids in a vast array of colors and textures bind the small tools together, with raw branches from a fallen tree jutting from the top. Made during a participatory workshop this past July at Lynden Sculpture Garden, the sweepers are what artist Daniel Minter calls a “talisman, tool, and object of remembrance.” Minter has long considered the spiritual dimension of the items we use in daily life. The broom, for example, has been an ongoing topic of inquiry as he questions what it means to cleanse and care for one’s...
the city as a field of possibility
What if the city wasn’t something to consume but something to play? For the Situationists, this was a way of challenging the passive role assigned to people in modern society. Instead of simply following the routes, functions, images, and routines laid out for them, they imagined inhabitants who could wander, interfere, improvise, and collectively reshape the environments around them. The city, in other words, could become a field of possibility.
This ambition runs through the work of the Situationist International, the group of artists, writers, and theorists formed in Europe in 1957. Their critique extended from advertising and mass media to architecture, urban...
What if the city wasn’t something to consume but something to play? For the Situationists, this was a way of challenging the passive role assigned to people in modern society. Instead of simply following the routes, functions, images, and routines laid out for them, they imagined inhabitants who could wander, interfere, improvise, and collectively reshape the environments around them. The city, in other words, could become a field of possibility.
This ambition runs through the work of the Situationist International, the group of artists, writers, and theorists formed in Europe in 1957. Their critique extended from advertising and mass media to architecture, urban...
Italy’s South Tyrol province, which borders Switzerland and Austria in the Alps and is home to some of Central Europe’s most dramatic mountains, lives up to its geographic position as a borderland. Italy annexed the region in 1919 following World War I, prior to which it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Many people are German-speaking, and in many ways, their cultural traditions and ancestry lean traditionally toward Austria more than Italy. At the outbreak of World War II, the Fascist Italian regime built a series of fortifications along the country’s northernmost border. Construction was halted at the onset of the war, and the military controlled what had been completed until 1993. For Vincenzo...
Dear Reader, The New York Times recently asked dozens of 10-year-olds what the world will be like in 2050. Some are hopeful: a woman will finally be president of the U.S., people will be more kind, and everyone will have a pet fox. Others, though, feel as if they’ve been plucked straight from a dystopian hellscape: world wars, monarchic rule supplanting voting, embedded brain sensors that send your thoughts straight to an app, and the end of human civilization entirely. Whether optimistic or not, these children mention A.I. again and again. In their futures, it’s an inextricable fixture of life. A.I.’s exponential growth has accelerated fears about its power, prompting numerous executives and...
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Kosuke Ajiro
GR gallery is pleased to present Excavation Record I – Sayonara, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro. The exhibition introduces Ajiro’s distinctive practice through the figure of the archeologist, who ventures into a whimsical and enigmatic imagined realm known as the “Kingdom of Sally.” Across the exhibition, each work reveals a fragment of this mysterious world, uncovering earthbound creatures and curious details before opening onto a vast, fantastical expanse. Moving between the familiar and the otherworldly, Ajiro’s works invite the viewer on a journey of mystery, magic, transformation, and discovery. As the story gradually reveals itself,...
GR gallery is pleased to present Excavation Record I – Sayonara, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro. The exhibition introduces Ajiro’s distinctive practice through the figure of the archeologist, who ventures into a whimsical and enigmatic imagined realm known as the “Kingdom of Sally.” Across the exhibition, each work reveals a fragment of this mysterious world, uncovering earthbound creatures and curious details before opening onto a vast, fantastical expanse. Moving between the familiar and the otherworldly, Ajiro’s works invite the viewer on a journey of mystery, magic, transformation, and discovery. As the story gradually reveals itself,...
Michael Francalanci
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Right now, it’s more important than ever to celebrate the natural world and preserve the biodiversity and habitats around us. Enter FLORA: our latest photobook, which celebrates growth, resilience and organic beauty in flowers, trees and plant life.
In 100 images, photographers around the world share what they see, from much-loved gardens and atmospheric woodland to eye-catching blossom, daffodils, cacti, and a glimpse of cowslips and gorse in hedgerows. It’s not just about the countryside – urban nature shots are also in the mix.
If you feel more relaxed after looking at floral images, you’re not alone. A Japanese scientific study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), found...
By Jody Zellen Eileen Cowin's thoughtful, intimate, and arresting retrospective Between Panic and Paradise prompted me to take Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida off the shelf. His complex reflections on the essence of photography resonate with Cowin's exhibition. Cowin stages intimate private moments and frames them with precision and exactitude. Blending reality and fiction, she seeks to document the emotional connection that forms with her subjects — be it her family, herself and her twin...
For three decades, Harriet Mena Hill has been a resident of South East London. This area is known in the art world for its schools, such as the esteemed Camberwell College of Arts. But Hill and others who lived there for some time remember it as a historically working-class and, at times, impoverished area of […]
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By Barbara Patterson Trans femme artist Pau Pescador's latest exhibition, Amor Prohibido, at Tyler Park Presents explores the volatility of becoming visible in a public space that criminalizes the existence of queer people. As anti-transgender legislation increases and security technologies evolve, the visibility of gender-nonconforming individuals becomes more precarious. A 2015 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology describes how "intruders" in gender-segregated areas...
Marigold Santos’s spectral forms are as layered with detail as they are with metaphor. Swirling amid marbled backgrounds in a feverish dance, they serve as critical examinations of cultural injustice. Their textures materialize their celestial properties as they become fierce teachers of colonial violence, problematic histories, and forgotten ancestry. Covertly, her haunting figural silhouettes aim […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"—Honoré de Balzac "Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning."—Miguel de Unamuno Hiroko Yoshimoto's paintings concentrate nature into radiant and dynamic beauty, distilling visual sensation into poetic and environmental significance. Throughout the 2020s, Yoshimoto has worked on two series of paintings about nature: Biodiversity and Of Infinite Variety. Both series are based on observation of the natural...
By Julie Faith There is something strange about returning to a place you once knew well after being away for a long time. You recognize the architecture before you recognize what the years have done to you. As I passed through the gate at Corey Helford Gallery, crossed the lot, and headed up the stairs, I felt ridiculously, wonderfully giddy. Kid-in-a-candy-store giddy. I have been away from the gallery and much of the Los Angeles art world, but somewhere between the gate and the stairs, I...
By Victoria Thomas Altadena-based artist James Griffith greets me at his studio, located in a refurbished 1920s firehouse diagonally across the street from the gleaming silver lagomorph of the restored Bunny Museum, by saying "Hi, I just started putting a galaxy in the armpit of a penguin." Great cities announce their identities through their monuments. New York City has the Statue of Liberty, St. Louis the Gateway Arch, Chicago the Cloud Gate, Philadelphia the original LOVE sculpture. And...
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...
Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here. Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...
The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.
The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...
For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...
By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...
Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...
