Canadian artist Jeff Wall’s famed large-format Dead Troops Talk went for $3.6 million at Christie’s New York this week, making the work the most expensive Canadian photo ever sold at auction. The original estimate was $1.5 to $2 million for the 90 x 164″ work, Dead Troops Talk (A […]
Frans Muhren of Amsterdam likes working in contradictions. The results are a joy to behold. -Sitting Mummy (green-rust), metal -Four Legs, Four Profiles, metal -Silhouettes, metal sculpture -Dead Men Walking, plastic, moulded skulls on moulded legs -Streamer 2, iron -Corporate Identity I, three painted neckties in the wind, […]
A stripe seen from head-on is a dot, a dot seen from the side could very well be a stripe. Brussels-based Canadian artist Zin Taylor is working his way through the Story of Stripes and Dots, a look at how art is made, and what are the building […]
Internationally renowned graffiti artist Troy Lovegates, a Canadian also known as Other, has moved from painting on walls to painting on books in his latest work for his Downriver exhibition at Parentheses Gallery in Halifax. It’s his first solo show in Canada since 2007. -The Human Machine Canadian […]
The Havana-based art collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) has created some of the most important work to emerge from Cuba in the past decade. The duo merges architecture, design, and sculpture in unexpected and often humorous ways, as in these examples of their work. Los Carpinteros website, here. […]
Andrea Dezsö’s superb porcelain art is only a tiny percentage of her extensive body of widely recognized work. But these sketchbook plates and porcelain tiles called out to be posted. You can go to her website here, to see more exceptional work, including drawing, artist’s books, cut paper, […]
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