Features & Interviews
10 Questions for Artist Michael Landy
Monday, 20 May 2013
Much of Michael Landy’s work concerns destruction or decay. The British artist, who recently turned 50 and is part of the YBA generation, came to prominence in 2001 with the Artangel commission Break Down, which saw all his worldly possessions destroyed in an industrial shredder. His next project saw him scale right down, surprising everyone with an exhibition of beautifully executed drawings of weeds.Landy’s love of close observational drawing continued with a series of arresting portraits....
theartsdesk in Warsaw: A New Jewish Museum
Sunday, 19 May 2013
The Ghetto Heroes Square in the Muranow district of Warsaw is a bleak place surrounded by drab apartment blocks. But at its centre there’s now a new building that attracted over 15,000 visitors in the first two days of its opening on 20 and 21 April, the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. It’s particularly remarkable as the building doesn’t yet have any exhibits on show. But Daniel Libeskind’s extension for the Jewish Museum in Berlin also opened so people could experience...
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