The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Hans Richter: Encounters, the first museum exhibition to examine the evolution of German artist Hans Richter’s practice based on his interaction with other artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers. In Richter’s most significant retrospective since the 1980s, the… Read More
To ring in the new financial year, Film and Video Umbrella is opening MerzBank – a repository of artists’ online works that draw their inspiration from that trailblazing exponent of collage, Kurt Schwitters. Guided by his innovations in the visual arts, in spoken word, in… Read More
IMAGO: Meret Oppenheim from 1996 is a 90-minute art film by Pamela Robertson-Pearce (director) and Anselm Spoerri (producer). The narration by Glenda Jackson is based on texts, letters, dreams and poems by Meret Oppenheim. It has been shown in cinemas in Europe and America, and… Read More
“Klänge” is a book by Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky, published in an edition of 345 in Munich in late 1912. The work is a famous early example of an artist’s book, containing both poems and woodcuts by the artist, forming two parallel strands, each… Read More
The Albertina devotes an exhibition – his first retrospective in Austria – to Max Ernst, the great pictorial inventor. Presenting a selection of 180 paintings, collages, and sculptures, as well as relevant examples of illustrated books and documents, the exhibition will assemble works related to… Read More
Schwitters in Britain is the first major exhibition to examine the late work of Kurt Schwitters, one of the major artists of European Modernism. The exhibition focuses on his British period, from his arrival in Britain as a refugee in 1940 until his death in… Read More
In the last years of his life, German artist Kurt Schwitters lived in exile in the Lake District, where he set about creating what he hoped would be his ultimate artwork, the ‘Merz Barn’. Schwitters’ original ‘Merzbau‘ is an icon of modernism and an early… Read More
Imagine the feeling of uncovering a Marcel Janco mural that hasn’t been seen in half a century. That’s precisely what happened to Eli Shaltiel as he was working on the restoration of the Janco’s former studio in Ein Hod, Jerusalem. It all began with a… Read More
Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976), born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although… Read More
The Dada movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society. Dada was an international movement, and it… Read More
