SUPERM: BEAUTY and HELL

“I think I’m in hell, and therefore I am” (Arthur Rimbaud)   Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny (aka SUPERM) are beyond doubt one of of the most inspirational and influential power couples in the art world. That’s why it’s no wonder they get so much (deserved) air time on Grateful Grapefruit. For their latest project, BEAUTY and HELL, a two part

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Maurizio Cattelan: All Things Hanging in Guggenheim

Maurizio Cattelan – one of the most influential art pranksters and agent provocateurs today – has turned the Guggenheim’s rotunda into a floating labyrinth with his hanging exhibition featuring effigies, surrogates and taxidermy animals. Nancy Spector, the chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, worked with Cattelan in putting the show All together. She is reassuring that all animals in the

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AA Bronson

You can put many labels on AA Bronson: art veteran, shaman, General Idea’s survivor, gay role model. But in fact I am not really interested in all the cliches spinning around his persona. Of course, this doesn’t mean I won’t tell you about General Idea or mention that AA is all about rituals – everything from ceremonial magic, witches covens, group

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OSTALGIA

When I go back to my roots, it is usually for either food or art. This time, it’s the latter. With an exhibition covering art from all (well, almost all; Bulgaria is not included) the former Eastern block countries, the New Museum New York exposes Eastern artists to Western judgement. In the nineties, the Germans coined a new word, Ostalgie,

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Peep Show: Kurt von Bley

You have to pay closer attention on this one. There are hidden meanings in Kurt von Bley‘s art and if you just look at it and walk by, you wouldn’t see the layers of meanings hidden in the corners and the fine stitching of his artwork. You can see his work exhibited in Tape Modern’s Peep Show in Berlin. RSVP to the

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Peep Show: Sean M Johnson

Sean might be a visual artist, but in fact the medium he always relies on is (his) sensuality. His photographs and videos are always levitating somewhere between sensual eruption, sexual seduction and make you either think about your wicked ways of dating behavior or simply jack off. For Tape Modern’s Peep Show, Sean Johnson presents “Pizza Party” What it is and

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Peep Show: Despina Stokou

Despina Stokou gets bodied. Her work deals with gender roles and identity issues, as well as the underlying sexuality in almost anything. Maybe that’s also the foremost reason why she has been included in the Peep Show this Friday in Tape Modern Berlin. RSVP to the event here. Where do you get inspiration from for your art? My work deals

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