Martin Boyce

The title of Martin Boyce’s current show is two sentence fragments—four words, two nouns activated by one adjective each: one on human endeavor, the other a natural phenomenon—pared down to the most essential elements required to animate nature and architecture into a sullen narrative.

As The Marciano Foundation opens in Los Angeles, we look at 11 exceptional private collections open to the public — from a chain of art malls to a museum built into a rock face

The private collection-turned-public museum may not be a new phenomenon, but it is one that keeps growing. Museums grab headlines with splashy new buildings by star architects or impressive renovation projects of historic industrial buildings. But beyond their often-impressive exteriors, each private museum functions as an extension of its founder’s personality and taste, in how the collection is presented, and how the museum engages with its surrounding community.

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York is hosting an exhibition “Sleeping Chimneys. Dead Stars” by artist Martin Boyce, on view through June 10, 2017.

The Artist Pension Trust, a mutual assurance fund that provides long-term financial security for artists, withdrew eighteen lots from an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s London after several artists decided that the sale “was not in their best interests,” Colin Gleadell of The Telegraph reports.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

Last week, 18 lots estimated to sell for as much as £200,000 were withdrawn from a contemporary art sale in London.

The fourth edition of ART021 opened to Shanghai today, bringing crowds of primarily local and regional collectors to the city’s Shanghai Exhibition Centre.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

If you’re planning on leaving the metropolis for your staycation, Artlyst has put together a selection of the best UK shows outside of London.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

The RISD Museum will present the first solo exhibition at an American museum by Scottish artist Martin Boyce.

Art Basel’s unique platform Unlimited, a section dedicated to artworks that transcend the traditional art-fair stand, will this year present 74 projects

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

The cat was out of the bag seven hours before the announcement, when anyone with access to Twitter and an interest in art was able to find out,

There was only one way the Turner Prize judges could have got a rise out of public opinion this year, says Mark Hudson. It had to be George Shaw.

On Monday December 5 the Turner Prize judges will announce the winner of the controversial award, but will their choice reflect that of the gallery

Tate and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art have announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for The Turner Prize 2011.

In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our selection includes an exhibition focusing on the effects of the hurricane Sandy in New York, an artist who protests against urban societies through art, a project gathering different artists who addressed the subject of Minimalism by using contemporary tools, a film combining urban and rural landscapes from East to West, and a Japanese artist showing his creations assembling painting, sculpture and collages.

A woman who once based a work around Star Wars character Jabba the Hutt is one of the four artists shortlisted for this year's £25,000 Turner Prize.

Next month, the 2011 nominees for this year’s Turner Prize will go on show. Known to spark controversy annually, the contemporary art prize is often plagued by the question “But is it art?” To help sort out the debate before the exhibition opens and the judging commences (by jury and public opinion), MutualArt brings you an all-encompassing summary of the Turner Prize and 2011’s shortlisted artists.

Tyneside's upbeat hosting of the UK's most-noticed arts prize - only the second outside London in the Turner's 27 years - sees 149,770 visit

George Shaw should have won the Turner. That he didn't shows art is now judged by criteria that are pretentious and empty.

Favorite Martin Boyce won the Turner Prize on Monday, claiming a 25,000 pound ($40,000) check and one of the art world's most prestigious

Flying tables, a sofa that lights up and other furniture turned into unusual and enchanting objects can be seen at “The New Decor” exhibition

This celebration of Scottish art from the last quarter century offers an absorbing variety of styles and mediums, says Alastair Sooke.

The Frieze Art Fair is over. Time for the Turner Prize! This Friday the exhibition of the 2011 nominees

As millions of voters living in Scotland prepare to take part in the country’s referendum

Karla Black’s Story of a Sensible Length, 2014 at the Scottish National Gallery, ‘a Tiepolo dream made real’. Photograph: Edinburgh art festival