Financial Times
Don McCullin on photographing war — and collecting antiques
‘Somerset is full of history,’ he says. ‘You feel the energy of the land.’
NZZ
I want a woman with a plan
‘But to put it briefly: art is good when we are fascinated, moved, and informed by it. When it transports us to another place. We want to be changed by art.’
WSJ China
Hauser & Wirth’s ‘Relationship Model’
‘The gallery that never stops progressing is already looking to the future and aspiring to the innovation and development that is to come.’
How To Spend It
Not Vital brings his transcendental structures to Hauser & Wirth
‘Not Vital brings his transcendental structures to Hauser & Wirth. From an excavated cave on a Patagonian island to surreal Saharan watchtowers, Swiss artist Not Vital melds sculpture and architecture to transcendental effect. Now it’s time for a major British show.’
Sculpture Magazine
Suffering and Desire: A Conversation with Berlinde De Bruyckere
‘United by ambiguity, the works are neither abstract nor representational, animate nor inanimate, neither portraits, still-lifes, nor landscapes. None and all of the above, they are something else altogether.’
Frieze
How Hauser & Wirth Took Over the World
‘From Somerset to Menorca, H&W’s ‘art centre’ model has redefined what a commercial gallery can be. Can our public institutions compete?’
Culture Trip
Lasting Imprint: The Rebirth of a Radical Bookshop
‘The building’s history makes it a natural home for the gallery’s publishing arm, according to Dr Michaela Unterdörfer, who, since 2005, has overseen its growth. ‘Our hope is that this new headquarters and bookshop will once again be a site for imaginative discourse,’ says Unterdörfer. ‘And that it will attract a similarly diverse audience, from artists and bibliophiles to art publishers and scholars.’’
The Guardian
Rashid Johnson on broken men, the black body and why Trump is bad for art
‘How does the black body function in space, when it’s being witnessed, versus when it’s not?’
