Anish Kapoor

From NYC to Dubai - Public Art Heats Up for the Summer

MutualArt | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Anish Kapoor, New York, Public Art, London-2012-Cultural-Olympiad, Chicago, London Olympics, Common Ground, London, Jessica Stockholder, Berlin, Dubai, Arts News

After a long, cold winter of hibernating inside museums, artists venture out into the heat this summer to create art in the public realm...

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WATCH: Anish Kapoor Gets A Disco Makeover

Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Installation Art, The Bean, Luftwerk, Video, Cloud Gate, Public Sculpture, Light Art, Chicago, Sculpture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arts News

Cloud Gate, the commandingly large sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor known affectionately as "The Bean" is the focus of a new project that will make yo...

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All-Star Cast Of Artists Contemplate 'Color'

Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Art, Video, Carolina Nitsch, Color, Contemporary Art, Blinky Palermo, Carolina Nitsch Gallery, Sherrie Levine, Damien Hirst, Sol Lewitt, Color-Wheel, Arts News

Color is a simple enough idea, but sometimes in a scene filled with swollen egos and overly conceptual work we tend to forget the beauty inherent in s...

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Anish Kapoor Completes Twisted Tower For London Olympics

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Public Art, Anish Kapoor Sculpture, Public Sculpture, Sculpture, London Olympics, UK Culture, Sculpture Art, UK Arts, 2012 London Olympics, Arts News

Internationally-renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor's "Orbit" tower, previously covered on the Huffington Post, is finally complete. The giant, 1,400 ton t...

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Insane Plans For London Olympics Labyrinth

ARTINFO | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: London Olympics, Architecture, Art, High Line, Artinfo, London, Olympic Park, UK, Anish Kapoor, Olympic Games, UK Arts, James Corner, Arts News

The verdict is in: after launching a design competition in July for London's forthcoming 50-acre Olympic Park, the Olympic Park Legacy Company has ann...

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London Gets Its Own 'Eiffel Tower'

Posted 12.31.2011

To get ready for the 2012 Olympic games, London needed the customary facelift that goes along with the festivities. Efforts have been made to push Lon...

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Anish Kapoor's Mobile Concert Hall In Japan

Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Ark Nova Japan, Japan Earthquake, Fukushima, Japan Tsunami, Arata Isozaki, Sculpture, Architecture, Ark Nova Concert Hall, Contemporary Art, Anish Kapoor Japan, Japan Architecture, Anish Kapoor Concert Hall, Anish Kapoor Ark Nova, Anish Kapoor New Work, Anish Kapoor Architecture, Arts News

At once sculptor, architect, and magician, Anish Kapoor brings mythical significance to a physical site with a mobile concert hall honoring the region...

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Crazy Stuff We Did During Summer Vacation

Fathom | Posted 10.21.2011

These tales of adventure instantly transport us from our cubicle to the age of exploration.

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PHOTOS: The Show Critics Love to Hate

Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Jeff Koons, Anish Kapoor, Christopher Le Brun, Art, Simon Brundret, Controversy, Tony Cragg, United Kingdom, Cindy Sherman, Royal Academy, Keith Tyson, UK Arts, Art Exhibitions, Royal Academy of the Arts, Arts News

(Via Mutual Art) The equally beloved-and-berated Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is back, now on view from June 7th-August 17th. It is the world’...

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WATCH: Ai Weiwei Released From Prison

Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Video, Ai Weiwei Released, Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei, Beijing Olympics, Money, Hong Kong, Chinese Government, Guggenheim, Ai Weiwei, China, International, Hackers, Weiwei, Ai Weiwei Video, Ai Weiwei Released Video, Arts News

After being imprisoned for three months in a Chinese prison, artist-activist Ai Weiwei has been released on bail. Originally detained while try...

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Art Basel Sells Nearly $2 Billion Worth Of Art

Bloomberg | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Art Basel 2011, Anish Kapoor, Maurizio Cattelan, Art Basel, Switzerland, Art Economy, Money, Economy, Mark Rothko, Larry Gagosian, Bridget Riley, Arts News

The year’s biggest test so far for contemporary art dealers, in Switzerland, ended with galleries saying that demand and prices have returned to 200...

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Art Basel: Proof Art Economy Is Strong Again?

Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Art, Switzerland, Art Basel, Art Sales, Art Economy, Finance, Money, Economy, Art Fairs, Joan Miro, Picasso, Larry Gagosian, Gagosian Gallery, Arts News

If Art Basel serves as the art world's bellwether, then this years fair is extremely promising. Works by twentieth century artists such as Pablo Picas...

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WATCH: Anish Kapoor On His Paris Takeover

Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Christian Boltanski, Grand Palais, Champs-Elysees, Video, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra, France, Monumenta, Sculpture, Leviathan, Paris, vernissage.tv, Arts News

It was only a matter of time before Anish Kapoor, sculptor-extraordinaire of all things bulbous, shiny and massive, was invited to fill up the exhibit...

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Art and the Public Domain: Olafur Eliasson, Tomas Saraceno, and Ai Weiwei at the GSD

David Glick | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Anish Kapoor, Christo, Installation Art, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cloud Gate, Site Specificity, Public Art, Museums, Sculpture, Tomas Saraceno, Harvard, Gates, Olafur Eliasson, Ai Weiwei, Arts News

The Divine Comedy, a current exhibition at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, features world renowned artists known for blurring the boundaries be...

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Defense Dept's $600k Fairy Sculpture

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 06.02.2011

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Politics, Paul Lepage, Alexandria Virginia, Department of Defense, Public Art, Cloud Gate, Federal Arts Funding, Sculpture, Arts News

Department of Defense (DOD) employees moving into a new building this fall may start their days walking past a sculpture of a toad with a ten-foot fai...

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UK Arts Funding Slashed

AP | By JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: UK, Arts Council, Antony Gormley, Labour Party, Economy, Ballet, Theater, Music, Arts Funding, Anish Kapoor, Arts Council England, Royal Opera, English National Ballet, Arts Funding Cuts, British Art, Dance, Arts News

LONDON -- Hundreds of British arts organizations had their public funding slashed or eliminated Wednesday, the result of government spending cuts aime...

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Can An Art Fair Be Dreamy?

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maastricht, Louise Bourgeois, Tefaf, Rembrandt, Anish Kapoor, Paul Klee, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Jean Dubuffet, Art Fairs, Painting, Arts News

Jenny Saville, Pause, 2002-03. Oil on canvas, 10 x 7 ft / 305 x 213 cm. Exhibitor: Thomas Gibson Fine Art TEFAF is Dreamy. Let me explain why. Th...

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Black Swan Inspired Art Exhibition

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Photography, Natalie Portman, Installation Art, Dominic Sidhu, Regen Projects, Los Angeles Exhibitions, Walead Beshty, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Exhibits, Natalie Portman Black Swan, Los Angeles Art, Black Swan, Painting, Slidefullscreen, Matthew Barney, Arts News

WHO: Matthew Barney, Walead Beshty, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Katharina Fritsch, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Wade Guyton, Pierre Huyghe, Sergej Jensen, A...

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PLAN ForYourArt: February 24-March 2

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenn Ligon, Katharina Fritsch, Mathew Sumich, Pierre Huyghe, Wade Guyton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jean Farrar, Modernism Weekend, Richard Phillips, Claire Rojas, Douglas Gordon, Nel Ivanich, Sergej Jensen, Ugo Rondinone, Anish Kapoor, Dan Graham, De LaB, Elizabeth Taylor, Lacma, Dominic Sidhu, Richard Prince, Black Swan, Rachel Kneebone, Nick Mauss, Leland Y. Lee, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Ace Hotel, Peggy Honeywell, Regen Projects, Christopher Wool, Walead Beshty, Karen Kilimnik, Banks Violette, Spaghetti Westerns, Matthew Barney, Beverly Hills, Culture, Psycho, Ed Ruscha, Thomas Cole, Los Angeles, Iran Firooz Zahedi, Darren Aronofsky, Palm Springs, Course of Empire, Arts, Prism, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles News

Ed Ruscha's Psycho Spaghetti Westerns features wide horizontal paintings, in which landscape becomes a surreal mental construct.

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Winter's Three Best Art Exhibitions In Museums Around The World

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Belgium, Henry Moore, Paris, France, London, England, Musee Rodin, Edward Goldman, Artists, Anish Kapoor, Art, James Ensor, Serpentine Gallery, Ghent, Smak, Arts News

To those of you who are brave and smart enough to travel to Europe in the next few weeks to avoid crowds and enjoy snowflakes dancing in the air, here...

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Fashion in Motion: Stephane Rolland

Crane.tv | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Zaha Hadid, Sculpture, Architecture, Stephane Rollund, French, Balenciaga, Motion, Haute Couture, V&A, Anish Kapoor, Art, Costume, Feminine, Fashion, Dress, Style News

Recognized first by Balenciaga at the tender age of 20, Rolland's passion for the theatrical stands as the foundations of his work.

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Anish Kapoor Turns The World Upside Down In London's Kensington Gardens

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sky, Anish Kapoor, Installation Art, Kensington Gardens, Art, Serpentine Gallery, Public Art, Turning the World Upside Down, Kensington, British Art, ARt Exhibition, Royal Parks, Mirrors, London, Slidefullscreen, Arts News

WHO: Anish Kapoor WHAT: Turning the World Upside Down WHEN: 28 September 2010 - 13 March 2011 WHERE: Kensington Gardens Kensington, London W2 3, Un...

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Art in Anticipation: 11 Reasons to Look Forward to 2011

Rebecca Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Whether he's striking down the pope with a meteorite or restraining his dealer to a gallery wall with masking tape, Maurizio Cattelan does it with wit and panache. This promises to be an unprecedented and, likely, unorthodox installation.

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Give Good Art: Picks From the Serpentine Gallery

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Michael Fried, Ryue Nishizawa, Kazuyo Sejima, Catalogue, Dorothea Von Hantelmann, Julia Peyton Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cerith Wyn Evans, Luke Fowler, Arina Abramovic, Serpentine Gallery, Philippe Parreno, Nicolas Bourriaud, Nairy Baghramian, Sanna, Arts News

Just in time for the holiday season, ForYourArt is asking some of our favorite places to give us a few suggestions for great gifts. Below are selectio...

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The Return of the Wizard

Yazmany Arboleda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Q&A, Tate Modern, Modern Art, Artist, Sculpture, Sculptor, New Delhi, Bombay, Contemporary Art, Anish Kapoor, Art, Yazmany Arboleda, India, British Art, Mumbai, Cloud Gate, Turner Prize, Kapoor, Yazmany, Marsyas, Anish, Arts News

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