By libby | November 2, 2009
Brazilian artist Tiago Carneiro da Cunha is working in a small studio at University of the Arts, near the end of a fall-semester artist’s residency. He is creating a new version of Mudman, one of his stock characters the appear and reappear in his work. This version, a clay figure, is about 2 feet tall, [...]
Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin, part 4
This is the last of four posts on Berlin’s Gallery Weekend. Links to the other posts are at the bottom.
Among the exhibitions worth a look in the Hamburger Banhof area is Frontlines: Notations From The Contemporary Indian Urban in the newly opened space by India’s prominent Bodi Gallery, [...]
Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin, part 3
This is the third of four posts on Berlin’s Gallery Weekend. Links to the other posts are at the bottom.
Mona Hatoum, Nature morte aux grenades (detail), 2006-2007, Crystal, mild steel and rubber, 95 x 208 x 70 cm, Edition of 5, photo courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler
Around the [...]
Post by Mari Shaw
This is part 2 of Mari Shaw’s post about Berlin Gallery Weekend.Read Part 1. Parts 3 and 4 will follow.
A must- see Gallery Weekend show is a large installation by Andreas Siekman that inaugurates Galerie Barbara Weiss’s new ground floor space on Zimmerstrasse.
Andreas Siekman, detail, Negotiations Under Time [...]
Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin
This is part 1 of four parts.
Mona Hatoum, Undercurrent (red), 2008, Cloth covered electric cable, light bulbs, dimmer device, Edition of 3 plus 1 AP, at Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary, OsramHöfe, Berlin. image provided by Galerie Max Hetzler. Comments on this work will appear in part 3 of the [...]
By libby | February 19, 2008
Post by Mari Shaw
Thomas Hirschhorn, Concept Car, at Art Fair ARCO in Madrid
I overcame my art fair fatigue and visited Madrid’s Art Fair ARCO for the first time last weekend, lured in part by the exhibitions in Madrid’s great museums. How could I resist seeing the Picasso exhibition with the Spanish light in my [...]
This is part 2 of an article about art collector, Mari Shaw. Read Part 1.
I asked Mari Shaw if she made art herself. “I never took art classes. I started drawing as an adult, when I was a lawyer before I was married to Peter. Then I took sculpture at Fleisher Art [...]
“I have some stories for you,” said Mari Shaw as she looked down on me from her spot on the ramp at the Institute of Contemporary Art. It was Sept. 6, the opening of the museum’s fall shows, and the curators were doing their walk-through of the various exhibits before the reception. The [...]
By libby | September 20, 2007
Hofer between her assistants Victoria Lelandais Gandit (grey top to left of Hofer) and Alex Janta (on the right of Hofer, with black sweater), taken at Slought Foundation. Christine McMonagle is on the far left.
Candida Hofer, the internationally known German artist acclaimed for her enormous photographs of architectural spaces, is here in Philadelphia [...]
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