Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick is an expert at suggestion. In “Were People This Dumb Before TV?

Because we believe that two heads are better than one, the new joint effort between Equator Production and Henzel Studio – both respected manufacturers of artist-designed carpets – is especially worth celebrating.

Exhibitions

Several years ago, a well-known international artist gave a talk at at a major Dallas museum about his work.

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.

Last week, 18 lots estimated to sell for as much as £200,000 were withdrawn from a contemporary art sale in London.

Following on the success of the first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection at Sotheby’s New York earlier this month, further artworks from the collection will be offered at Sotheby’s London Contemporary Curated sale on April 12, 2017. These include a strong selection of works by beloved British artists like Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, and Bob & Roberta Smith, as well as other international artists, at a wide range of price points, with low estimates from $1,200 (1,000 GBP) to high estimates of up to $35,000 (30,000 GBP).

After former Artists Space director Stefan Kalmár took up a new post as director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the ICA today announced the appointment of Katharine Stout as deputy director and Richard Birkett as chief curator, who will both start their roles in spring 2017.

Today a wide-ranging group of artists, curators, critics, and other art types signed an open letter opposing President Trump’s executive order, which places restrictions of varying timespans on non-U.S. citizens traveling from seven majority-Muslim countries.

Last year, curator Robert Storr, then the dean of the Yale School of Art, went on a tirade about the state of art criticism on a Yale radio show, lambasting everyone from New York magazine’s Jerry Saltz—a “class clown,” Storr said—to academics Hal Foster and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, who “know very little about art history.” “Critics,” Storr concluded, “have gotten confused about the issue of what their role is.”

Welcome to Part 2 of ‘How to Fix the Art World.’

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

The latest Hyundai commission to adorn the interior of Tate’s Turbine Hall is a new site-specific installation by French artist Philippe Parreno.

Liam Gillick’s “The Red Wood Pigeon Meets Some Meetings” is on display at Air de Paris and will continue to run through October 29, 2016.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

An exhibition, titled 'Campaign', presenting the sculptural interventions by well-known British artist Liam Gillick is on view at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, and will run through January 8, 2017.

It’s a sunny autumn day in the small Japanese city of Okayama, and two British men born in the 1960s are conversing about cameras.

The length and height of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is alive with ripples and rivers of pulsing light.

When Herzog and de Meuron’s highly anticipated Switch House extension opened at the Tate Modern in June this year, the cavernous Turbine Hall that was once a ‘dead end’ within the museum became its heart; a space that leads visitors across from the original riverside building to the new galleries.

Grizedale’s collaborative model village comes to Dublin.

In southern France, LUMA Arles is a new experimental contemporary art center that brings together artists, researchers, and creators from every field to collaborate on multi-disciplinary works and exhibitions.

A new triennial contemporary art exhibition will soon be held in Okayama, Japan. Okayama Art Summit 2016 will have its first edition from October 9 through November 27, 2016, organized by the Okayama Art Summit Executive Committee and directed by New York artist Liam Gillick.

The Arts Council Collection is delighted to announce details of a major new touring exhibition which sees leading British artist, Ryan Gander, selecting work from this world-class national collection of modern and contemporary British art.

In case you missed out, here’s a digest of the top stories on e-flux conversations from June–July 2016.

Liam Gillick is an artist of context. His life's works have strayed from the ivory tower of autonomy and made the assertion that everything is part of something; that you can't see the one without understanding the whole.

On a recent morning at 8:20 a.m., Jens Hoffmann and Rachel Rose were talking about David Foster Wallace.

The “Expanded Fields” group show at Nymphius Projekte in Berlin investigates contemporary approaches to sculpture.

A new exhibition titled “Don’t Follow the Wind” might not be open to the public for quite some time, because the area around it — that is, in the blast radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant — likely won’t be safe for years, even decades.

Art and nature: the outdoor sculpture park offers the best of both worlds. Especially during the summer holidays, when we’re eager to trade in weary museum-legs for the invigorating effects of the nature hike, without sacrificing the need to view and appreciate great artworks. Here we’ve collected a selection of some of the best sculpture parks in Western Europe, combining idyllic settings with contemporary artworks by renowned artists. Located outside of major urban centers and off the beaten track, these art destinations are worth the trip.

London life is about to get infinitely better.