Artist Dan Colen takes his latest exhibition Dead Flowers to KARMA's Amagansett location on Long Island this August. The show is comprised of three flower paintings, M&M-painted rock sculptures and a metamorphosed park bench. "This collection of artworks seems to exist as in a dream or altered state; mutations and disruptions can be acknowledged without affecting our ability to wholly accept the resulting phantasmagoric landscape. The planar world contorts, stained and bent, into a world of vortices.

Jack Smylie

Ana Kraŝ has just moved from Serbia to New York. She is a maker of alluring objects and illustrations, and a taker of seductive photographs. Whatever she turns her mind to has an earthy and simplistic appeal, nothing too showy or sterile, but rather works that are imbued with the hand of the artist behind them.

Clementine Widdowson – de Pressigny: Ana can you tell me about growing up and studying in Serbia, and how youthink this has informed your work?

Clementine Widdowson - de Pressigny

Britain Creates 2012, an initiative prompted by the British Fashion Council and The Vinyl Factory, brings together leading designers and artists across various disciplines. Among those who are taking part in the project are Mary Katrantzou with Mark Titchner, Giles Deacon with Jeremy Deller, and Hussein Chalayan MBE with Gavin Turk. Turk and Chalayan collaborated and produced a song, 'Four Minute Mile', which takes it's name from Roger Bannister’s record breaking speed, and begins with the sound of running feet - a nod towards the fast approaching Olympic games.

Jack Smylie

Team presents a new feature-length film by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, the protagonist of which is Sierra's monumental sculpture of the word “NO”, constructed in a generic bolded sans serif typeface. Crossing most of Western Europe, the Eastern United States and touching down briefly in Japan, the six-foot tall, fourteen-foot wide negation distills the artist’s practice of site specific artworks into a single simple gesture adaptable to a variety of settings. As the sculpture travels, its meaning changes with its setting.

// Team Gallery - 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster and Greene, Ground floor.

Source - Team Gallery

Jack Smylie

A part of his ongoing Air-Port-City / Cloud-City project, Tomas Saraceno has taken over the downstairs gallery space at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery with his sprawling, web-like architectural proposals, experiments and models that explore the possibility of a future airborne existence – a literal "cloud city." Informed by the worlds of art, architecture, natural sciences and engineering, his floating sculptures and environmental installations invite viewers to consider geometries and phenomena of the natural world as adaptable models for the ways we live and interact.

// 2 Jun 2012 - 27 Jul 2012

Source - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Jack Smylie

New York based ceramic artist Shino Takeda teamed up with Inventory magazine to create a small line of beautiful handmade pieces, including a cup, planter and bowl. Each item is made with a different balance of red clay, ash, milky pink and turquoise, limited to 10 pieces per style. Available through the Inventory Stockroom. 

Megan Christiansen

Portraits & Murals catalog's the exhibition of the same name by Richard Avedon at The Gagosian Gallery, presented in a scenography by David Adjaye. The exhibition and book allows us to rediscover the works begun between 1969 and 1971, presented on 8 to 10 meter panels they featured iconic figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and the Factory, the Chicago Seven.

Megan Christiansen

"I do not obey any intention, system or trend; I have no programme, style or pretention. I love uncertainty, infinity and permanent insecurity."

// Gerhard Richter: Panorama @ Centre Pompidou - June 6 - September 24, 2012

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Jack Smylie

Sunil Pawar is a freelance illustrator who is not constricted to a particular medium of work, this allowing his creativity to extend the boundaries and capture the attention. Working under the banner Slingshot London ltd, Pawar has worked with some of the leading names in the creative world from from local pirate radio stations to international fashion houses while notable names include Junya Watanabe, Levi"s, Converse and even Atari and BBC. 

James Oliver: Can you tell us about your journey through childhood?

James Oliver

There has been a lot of gab around the Los Angeles art scene recently with respect to the resignation of four important artists from the board of trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Over the last week, John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie and Ed Ruscha have all left in protest of the dismissal/resignation of chief curator Paul Schimmel.

Source - The Breaks: Aaron Rose

Aaron Rose