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A poignant story of hope, love and loss

Jean-Luc Mylayne (born in 1946) has spent his life projecting himself into the world to photograph "the bird" in rural settings where he invests weeks, sometimes months, to achieve the composition he seeks. The Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles presen

During the Rwandan genocide in 1994 up to one million Tutsi were murdered by members of the Hutu tribe. Eighty percent of the women who survived were raped. Today, victims and perpetrators live side by side. Although women have gained social status s

Zac Langdon-Pole's Art Journey Constellations has taken him across a world that humans and birds have been navigating through millennia. He followed the flight paths of birds like the white stork or the arctic tern, traveling along the earth

That incomparable melancholy in Edward Hopper's pictures occasionally leads us to look at the details of his life. Where exactly did this master of loneliness live and work? What were his most important influences while he was working on his great pa

»Heiter bis wolkig« lautet jene Formulierung der abendlichen Wettervorhersage am Ende der Tagesschau, die alles und nichts verspricht. Heimat - was ist das und wo lässt sie sich erkennen oder identifizieren? Drei junge Fotografen durchstreifen das La

Gerhard Richter is one of the most famous painters of our time. Worldwide. His fascinating visual spheres are characterized by a unique originality and quality, in which the abstract and the figural intertwine and permeate each other. This extensive

Zwischen 1561 und 1562 trug Georg Bocskay, Sekretär von Kaiser Ferdinand I., in der Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta eine große Auswahl zeitgenössischer und historischer Schriften zusammen, um sein technisches Können als Schreiber am Hofe zu dem

Die neue Fotoserie Zwischen den Zeiten von Alfred Seiland zeigt den Iran als historisch vielschichtige Kulturlandschaft, die sich gerade im Wandel in die Moderne befindet. Das einst als Persien bekannte Gebiet gilt nach wie vor als eines der

For centuries, what lies above the Arctic Circle has been a source of intrigue for those who live below its border. Stories from the ancient Greeks mixed with Norse mythology and reports from early voyages have given rise to lively conceptions of ice

Can a sculpture be a river? Can contemporary art unite conflicting systems of belief? Do other species appreciate culture? And can public art revive communities and ecosystems? Cristina Iglesias' horizontal fountains, submerged rooms and tropical maz

What public institutions are capable of

Displacement and Migration as an urban issue

Eons ago, the theory goes, back when human beings first began planning structures, the buildings they designed were of two types. There were houses, to satisfy everyday needs, and there were temples, to satisfy the need for something beyond the every

The Day May Break, photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, is the first part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. The people in the photos were all affected by

Zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs zog sich die Dada-Künstlerin Hannah Höch (1889-1978) in ein abgelegenes Haus am Rande Berlins zurück, um der Verfolgung wegen ihrer radikalen Collagearbeit und ihrer unermüdlichen Opposition gegen den Faschismus zu en

Snapshots of exit signs: Over a period of nearly ten years, Florian Reinhardt captured a total of 1,024 examples of this genre around the world with his iPhone camera. Intentionally affectless, depersonalized, and repetitive, these photos offer a con

Sie faszinieren uns heute wie vor 500 Jahren: kunstvolle Arrangements exotischer Früchte, genauso wie gewöhnliche Speisen, auserlesene Blumengestecke oder mahnende Totenköpfe, kostbar verzierte Musikinstrumente und wissenschaftliche Apparaturen. Die

They fascinate us today as they did 500 years ago: elaborate compositions of exotic fruits or platters with oysters, foral arrangements and skulls, exquisitely decorated musical instruments and scientific instruments. Magical things testify to exuber

Renowned art historian John C. Welchman provides the first in-depth study of more than 30 years of creative activity by the Royal Book Lodge (RBL), a nimble and richly innovative network of international artists. Chapters examine the history and cont

Carol Rama is one of the most exciting artistic rediscoveries of the 20th century. Her creative period spanned more than 70 years - tirelessly testing different materials, styles, and media. Among other things, the artist created a body of graphic wo

Female View puts the focus on women fashion photography. Although this medium has been shaped by female photographers for decades, a large number of publications or exhibitions have focused primarily on the male gaze of the female body. Nume

Music videos are signs of our times, integral parts of contemporary culture, available worldwide, produced worldwide - a nucleus of the global entertainment industry. In this brilliant book, musical world culture meets an icon of German industrial cu

Travel is a fundamental experience of human existence. For Max Beckmann it was of existential importance both in a symbolic, but also in a deeply personal sense. In the 1920s, he regularly traveled to the noble health resorts and palace hotels on the

Few materials have experienced a similar reevaluation in contemporary art as clay has in the past few years. This timely publication accompanies a large-scale exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London, exploring how contemporary artists are using clay an

Guido Reni was the star painter of the Italian Baroque, one of Europe's most successful artists, sought after by prominent patrons. Whether his subject matter was the Christian heaven or the world of classical mythology, Guido Reni was unmatched in h

The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam's south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009. This book recounts the event through the eyes of its "Ambassad

Following on the widely read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today's generation of museum directors, New York-based author and cultural strategy advisor András Szántó

One of the most important artists of his generation, Erwin Wurm is internationally recognized for his unique way of reinventing sculpture through performance, video, drawing and photography. Accompanying the exhibition One Minute Forever at the Museu

Why are we creative? Why are we not? In The Dialectic of Creativity, Hermann Vaske explores these questions in conversations with Marina Abramovic, Vivienne Westwood, David Hockney, Georg Baselitz, Björk, Jeff Koons, Zaha Hadid, Christo, Yok

Art and Objecthood illuminates the role of found objects and unconventional materials in the oeuvre of world-renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. His creative fervor saw no bounds, he painted and drew on everything around him-from chairs to

Antony Gormley - international bekannt als einer derbedeutendsten Bildhauer der Gegenwart - ist ein großerBewunderer der Werke Wilhelm Lehmbrucks: ihrer Innerlichkeit,Konzentration und Ruhe. Gormley / Lehmbruck.Calling on the Body erscheint

Zhao Gang is a wanderer between two worlds. At the age of just 18, he was the youngest member of legendary avant-garde artist group The Stars, which also included Ai Weiwei. Their 1979 group exhibition, and the protests that followed, are of

Occasionally, when something seems very familiar you lose sight of what makes it so special: Flemish Masters. From van Eyck to Bruegel sets out to counteract this effect and opens our eyes once again to the revolution that took place in the

Josef Albers's groundbreaking series Homage to the Square comprises roughly two thousand oil paintings. His continuous reflections and refinements for more than 25 years inspired numerous young minimal and conceptual artists in their search

Als autodidaktische Künstlerin und angestellte Büroleiterin in Ost-Berlin nutzte Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt ihre Schreibmaschine, um Buchstaben und Zeichen zu Grafiken zwischen Konkreter Poesie, Grafikdesign und Konzeptkunst zu verdichten. Ihre ins Abstrakte