Julie Mehretu: lines blurred in about the space of half an hour
Mehretu’s expansive, and incredibly labour intensive works each tackle their own important themes—immigration, displacement, social and economic inequality, and natural disasters
Author: Alexandra Zirinis
Born in New York and raised in NYC and London, I have been lucky enough to travel the world and immerse myself in the international art scene. Contemporary art and writing are my two passions which I bring together with my art blog and Instagram (atozexhibitions). I have worked for Christie’s auction house, Phaidon Press, Masterpiece London Art Fair, and Gurr Johns, a leading art advisory firm. I am currently living and working (freelance writing and art advising) in London.
Top 7 Christmas presents for any art lover
This week on FAD magazine we take a week-long look at art gifts for Christmas, We have asked some of our writers and art gallery friends to choose some great gifts, below are the choices of Alexandra Zirinis
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye- Fly In League With The Night
“I don’t have hard and fast rules about these things” the British artist says when asked about the impetus for… Read More
More Than Just a Pretty Picture: Vivian Springford at Almine Rech
Vivian Springford at Almine Rech is only the artist’s second solo show; The opening exhibition was in 2018 when Almine Rech Gallery first began to represent Springford’s estate.
Pedestrian Profanities curated by Eric N Mack
Pedestrian Profanities, at Simon Lee Gallery’s New York space, presents an eclectic array of multi-media designs by eight interdisciplinary artists
Amy Sillman Twice Removed
Even at the opposite end of the gallery, each individual component of the painting was so intense that, when combined, a rich mix of emotion exuded from the canvas. Each work, as a matter of fact, in American painter Amy Sillman’s exhibition, Twice Removed seemed to have this effect.
Haunted: Richard Hambleton’s One Man Show
The show revealed twenty-two original works by Canadian/ American street artist Richard Hambleton, (30″ x 84″ acrylic on Japanese Kinwashi paper,) in conjunction with American photographer Franc Palaia’s images of Hambleton’s original “Shadowman” street art series
Top Five Art Films to Cure Quarantine Boredom
Top Five Art Films to Cure Quarantine Boredom
An evening with Marina Abromovic
It was a rainy night in March and thanks to typical London traffic, I was embarrassingly late for an evening with Marina Abromovic at the Royal Academy of Arts. The crowd was very small which made this mishap worse, but as Iopened the door and made my way to my seat, the artist flashed me a kind smile.
Artists Band Together
Fifteen contemporary artists and activists have come together in conjunction with eBay, and three youth-led organizations– RISE, Woke Vote, and Mijente, with a genius campaign to get out the USA vote.
New York’s mega dealers head east.
In mid-March, at the start of the Covid19 pandemic, when wealthy New Yorker’s opted out of quarantining in their apartments and fled to the Hamptons, their favourite galleries followed.