Deceitful Mask

“Whenever the media covers stories of the movement of people as a result of economic, social or religious reasons, these people are mostly portrayed as both faceless and nameless and as an audience there is sometimes a detachment from the people in question,” concludes Raphael. “We decided, therefore, to use still life images as an…

“John Keane’s reputation as a political artist has been established through a sustained artistic inquiry into military and social con icts around the world, from Northern Ireland to Central America and the Middle East, where he was commissioned as the Of cial British War Artist of the Gulf War. A new exhibition at Flowers Gallery,…

Grotesque creatures welcomed visitors to the Städel Garden of the Städel Museum. Rondinone transformed the prominent hill above the Garden Halls into a strange landscape. For his group of works sunrise east, Rondinone assigned a head with characteristic, highly reduced facial features to represent each calendar month. Larger than life and cast in shiny silver…