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Overtime: May 27 – June 2

Posted by sleepboy, June 2, 2019

Ellsworth Kelly stamps released by USPS this week. Photo by @Yngaling. Banksy’s Port Talbot stencil to be moved to a gallery. Another stellar addition to INSA’s GIF-iti series of works. KAWS last collaboration with Uniqlo ignites a frenzy. Quatre Caps reinterprets classic still life paintings to highlight plastic pollution. Charlie Adlard, comic artist behind The Walking Dead series to have exhibition in hometown. Original drawing for the first-ever cover of Tintin could fetch over $1m at auction. Nine curators share their favorite wall colors to display […]

Overtime: May 1 – May 7

Posted by Khoi, May 7, 2017

More stories from the week that ended May 7 (click on bolded words for more information): Matthew Marks Gallery exhibiting the last paintings Ellsworth Kelly made before he died. RIP: A. R. Penck, who passed away at the age of 77. RIP: Jordan Vaughn, aka Tead, who passed away at the age of 34. RIP: Stephen McKenna, who passed away in his home in Co Carlow. Matt Furie kills off Pepe the Frog. Man with a knife slashes Christopher Wool painting at Opera Gallery in Aspen. Visions Gallery […]

Overtime: Dec 21 – Dec 27

Posted by Khoi, December 27, 2015

More stories from the week that ended Dec 27 (click on bolded words for more information): RIP: Ellsworth Kelly, who passed away today at the age of 92. RIP: Alain Jouffroy, who passed away at the age of 87 after being hospitalized for two weeks. Archivists in Paris working hard to preserve murals created in response to terrorist attacks in the city. Attendence at the Lourve and Centre Pompidou down drastically since terrorist attacks in Paris. The Bardo National Museum strengthens links to Italian institutions following terrorist […]

Rewind: Nov 23 – Dec 22

Posted by sleepboy, December 22, 2015

For out latest Rewind feature we are highlighting a video from INSA featuring his work with Pepsi in creating a moving peace sign (formed of painted cars) that can be seen from space. This particular form of art is right down the UK-based street artist’s alley as he has plenty of experience as the inventor of the Gif-iti series of works. Other notable videos include: Jeff Gillette working in the desert. Timelapse of Odeith at work. Daniel Arsham’s Future Relic 04. An online video installation […]

Openings: Ellsworth Kelly – “At Ninety” @ Matthew Marks Gallery West 24th Street

Posted by juggernut3, June 6, 2013

Matthew Marks Gallery is currently celebrating the 90th birthday of American artist Ellsworth Kelly with an exhibition aptly entitled At Ninety, which spans all three of the gallery’s Chlesea spaces. For over 60 years, Kelly has expressed his own style of minimalist art through painting, sculpting and print-making, often focusing on simple forms and monochromatic colors. In the gallery on W. 24th, the space is dominated by four large relief paintings from 2011, respectively consisting of a red, blue, yellow or green shaped panel overlapping […]

Basel Week Miami ’12: Matthew Marks Gallery @ Art Basel

Posted by Khoi, December 19, 2012

The only thing you need to know about Matthew Marks Gallery is that it represents Jasper Johns, (arguably) the greatest living artist in the world. Looking further, you will see that the gallery also represents other top artists as well. Its booth at Art Basel this year includes an orange, two-panel painting by Ellsworth Kelly, new sculptures by Charles Ray and Katharina Fritsch, three recent paintings by Paul Sietsema, new sculptures by Darren Almond, as well as pieces by Willem de Kooning, Luigi Ghirri, Thomas Demand, […]