Tag: Guggenheim

  • Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable

    This overarching retrospective covers Holzer’s 40 years as an artist activist, from her printed slogans on T-shirts and condom-wrappers to LED and kinetic sculptures

  • Making Africa: a continent of contemporary design

    This exhibition explores the impact new technology has had on the work of African artists, designers and architects, and Guggenheim Bilbao curator Petra Joos talks about its implications

  • Living, Looking, Making: Richard Serra and Others

    The Gagosian Gallery in London is currently showing (until 19 May) a key exhibition of contemporary sculpture. Works by Giacometti, Fontana, Twombly and Serra, leave no doubt of the pre-eminence of Richard Serra. This article discusses previous works by Serra…

  • Richard Serra in London

    Latterly, in the last quarter of 2008, their young architect David Kohn was involved, on site, in raising the actual new-built height of the internal volume of the spacious new gallery off Kings Cross to match the size of Serra’s…

  • A Runaway Girl at Home in New York: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim

    Louise Bourgeois, a travelling retrospective marking the artist’s nearly 100 years of living and more than seven decades of art-making, is an ambitious project. Opening in October 2007 at Tate Modern in London, the exhibit appeared at the Centre Georges…

  • Beijing’s 798 Art District

    A decade ago, setting up radical art studios in the workshops of a largely abandoned military electronics complex on the fringe of Beijing was considered to be intriguing and provocative. Today, Factory 798 is a warren of contemporary art galleries,…