Arriving on New Year's Eve in the aftermath of the brutal rape of a female commuter in New Delhi, I encountered the Indian media...
(2) Comments | Posted December 19, 2012 | 10:31 AM
© Guy Laliberté - Algeria, Sahara Dessert, 2009 Print on cotton paper - 30 x 45 inches
Edition of 15
The fire-eating accordion-player who founded Cirque Du Soleil, Guy Laliberté, also became one of the first space-tourists to fly in a...
(0) Comments | Posted November 12, 2012 | 9:13 AM
View of Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre during a storm on 2 November, 2012 - A collaboration between Henning Larsen Architects and artist Olafur Elliason that opened in 2011 - Photo: FRÉTTABLAÐIÐ/GVA Courtesy of OlafurEliasson.net
(1) Comments | Posted July 17, 2012 | 1:40 PM
Château de Lacoste - the residence of the Marquis de Sade in 1760s - as seen from the welcoming arms of Alexander Bourganov's sculpture
The ruins of Château de Lacoste rises dramatically over a verdant crest in the Luberon Valley....
(9) Comments | Posted June 18, 2012 | 2:36 PM
The Château de Versailles was aflame with the fanfare Marie Antoinette would have expected had she arrived there in a chopper festooned with pink ostrich feathers, throwing...
(0) Comments | Posted May 31, 2012 | 3:22 PM
Tomás Saraceno, Metropolitan Museum rooftop, Inside his sculpture Cloud City. Photographed By Bobby Fisher, 2012
Tomás Saraceno's sculpture Cloud City at Metropolitan Museum rooftop, Photograph By Bobby Fisher, 2012
How would...
(2) Comments | Posted May 8, 2012 | 7:44 AM
Gilbert (right) and George (left) photographed by Douglas Friedman 2012
Gilbert and George are back after six years of trawling the dark seas of the human psyche with hot-off-the-press banners announcing various victims of violent demise. The London Pictures are a compilation of...
(2) Comments | Posted May 1, 2012 | 1:32 PM
Director Michael Glawogger has a knack for shadowing pimps and hookers...
(9) Comments | Posted April 24, 2012 | 10:23 AM
"There is a not a real place for people between...
(7) Comments | Posted April 16, 2012 | 8:15 AM
Kehinde Wiley's Benediter Brkou (The World Stage: Israel), 2011, oil and gold and silver enamel on canvas. Private Collection. © Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California.
Quick-and-easy snapshots have replaced the grand, gilt-framed portraits of...
(1) Comments | Posted March 21, 2012 | 4:33 PM
Artist Not Vital in Agadez, Niger - Mekafoni. Camel, 2003 - Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater Gallery New York
Raised on the dizzying slopes of the Engadine region in Switzerland, nomadic artist Not Vital takes delight...
(4) Comments | Posted January 16, 2012 | 4:32 PM
Artist Mariko Mori's Journey to Seven Light Bay is a digital project that transports visitors to Miyako Island in Okinawa, Japan, where Mori has installed the first part of her monumental earthwork 'Primal Rhythm'. The installation consists of a sun pillar and an egg-shaped 'Tida Dome' that changes colour with...
(0) Comments | Posted December 20, 2011 | 12:00 PM
Tom Sachs, Photograph by The Selby
Tom Sachs, Photograph by The Selby
After a few years of tinkering in his studio, Tom Sachs has resurfaced with a new show entitled Work at New York's Sperone Westwater...
(1) Comments | Posted December 10, 2011 | 8:48 PM
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Walton Ford photographed by Bobby Fisher © Bobby Fisher, 2011 -- Arabian proverb from beginning of King Kong: 'And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from...
(0) Comments | Posted November 8, 2011 | 5:50 PM
Charlotte Rampling: photograph for SPREAD by Kareem Black, 2011
"Being ready at 9am in any country," sighed Charlotte Rampling, smartly turned out in a black suit after a late night of revelry in the West Village. The Look had just premiered the night before...
(5) Comments | Posted October 20, 2011 | 2:38 PM
Landscape by Stuart Hall © Stuart Hall - A future earth without trees?
© J F Rauzier - Cranach's Dream - The New Garden of Eden?
'Oops,' someone might...
(2) Comments | Posted September 21, 2011 | 3:13 PM
Sculpteur de Nourissons - detail © Charles Matton, Courtesy All Visual Arts, Photo: Tessa Angus
(3) Comments | Posted September 13, 2011 | 3:03 PM
Film still from The Mill and the Cross, 2011 Directed by Lech Majewski - Credit: Kino Lorber, Inc.
Some time ago as part of my long fascination with Venetian culture, I came across Lech Majewski's...
(771) Comments | Posted August 22, 2011 | 3:15 PM
© Iain McKell - "The New Gypsies" (Published by Prestel)
Wandering the edges of townships in the grey zones between cities, the Gypsies of Central Europe live off the grid. Myths, rumours and tales...
(5) Comments | Posted July 12, 2011 | 2:28 AM
Ashley Bickerton photographed at his studio in Bali by Bobby Fisher, 2011
Ashley Bickerton has darkened his timbre after carousing the neon-lit nights of Pan-Asian hotspots. He says that he's entered a new phase - his kids have grown, he's newly separated, and...
(0) Comments | Posted March 19, 2013 | 12:17 PM