By Michele Robecchi
In contrast with other art prizes featuring multiple artists, the Baltic Artists Awards has only winners. The four finalists (José Dávila, Eric N. Mack, Toni Schmale and Shen Xin) all received an artist’s fee, a budget to create new work, and a 13-weeks exhibition at the Baltic Art Centre [...]
By Michele Robecchi
Without questioning the sacrosanct necessity of security measures, especially when it comes to protecting a massive, crowded and potentially vulnerable event such as the Olympics, the recent news of missile batteries installed on rooftops of Bethnal Green and many other neighborhoods surrounding London’s Olympic Park have raised a few eyebrows. Battered [...]
Galerie Max Hetzler - Berlin
By Helmut Schuster
What began in the year 2007 as a temporary location for the Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin (originally in Stuttgart and Cologne) is now the major gallery’s sole, central exhibition location. In Berlin, where the crisis in the art market has been successfully resisted by the establishment of new [...]
