TOP 10 ARTICLES OF 2017
Happy New Year Contemporary Lynx Readers!
It’s time to summarise the last year! What were your favorite articles of 2017? Let’s go back to the most-read interviews and articles!
ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI PRESENT: YOUNG POLAND
Nine Polish fashion photographers crossed borders to New York for a first-ever Polish fashion photography exhibition in NYC. Curated by Alexi Lubomirski, YOUNG POLAND served as an insight to…
POLISH ART TOMORROW: HISTORY, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Polish Art Tomorrow is a project based on a virtual platform. It aims to promote Polish art in a local and global context. The platform is a growing database of more than two hundred artists…
LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING?
Stuck with your gift ideas? Feel inspired by our gift recommendations to surprise your loved ones this Christmas. We selected some special and unique products by visual artist and designers, some of which you can find in our Lynx Concept Store.
WHY IS MIAMI THE BEST PLACE FOR ART LOVERS IN DECEMBER?
Beginning of December, all the key players in the art world are in Miami. That’s because Art Basel Miami Beach and more than ten other satellite art fairs are taking place at the same time…
‘QUEERING’ IS THE ALCHEMY OF TURNING A WHITE CUBE INTO A DISCO BALL’
The new queer modes of inquiry – camp, kitsch, and tongue-in-cheek aesthetics generate new possibilities and meanings, which make it a fascinating form of art to engage with.
OUR SUBJECTIVE GUIDE TO ART FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS IN MIAMI BEACH
The 16th edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach is coming! Alongside the shows staged in Basel, Switzerland and Hong Kong, it is one the most important annual art fairs offering a comprehensive look…
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ: THE FABRIC OF ART
The exhibition ‘Metamorphism’ at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź is a presentation of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s work with a focus on the artist’s fascination with textiles.
D-FILE #8: THE TROUBLE WITH THE FONT IS…?
„Contrast is the source of form” – Władysław Strzemiński once said. I say: “Contrast creates the sense”. Sounds like a perfect conversation starter if we ever had a chance to grab a cup of coffee. In reality, I have a better shot of having a coffee with…
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW: HUMAN LANDSCAPES REVIEW – EXPERIENCE TRANSLATED THROUGH BODY
At the entrance to the gallery lies a leg, the limb of the artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973), cast in plaster. This modest and early in her career sculpture…
ART AND FILM LOVERS UNITE
We have not seen such a slew of successive films about art – and contemporary art to boot – in a very long time. This autumn, distribution companies are busy catering to cinema and art aficionados and presenting to them the premiers of…
BETWEEN FACTUAL AND FICTITIOUS ASPECTS OF LENS-BASED PRACTICE
A Conversation with Darek Fortas – a lens-based artist with a strong interest in politics, aesthetics and distribution of power. His practice can be characterised as bridging documentary-style fieldwork…
June 1 - December 31
Online: "Solidarity and Agency" project
May 21 - October 1
Online: The 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2)