The Daimler Art Collection: A Conversation with Renate Wiehager

Originally formed in 1977, the Daimler Art Collection includes about 1,800 works by approximately 600 German and international artists, focusing on abstract and geometrical painting. In the 1980s, the collection also began acquiring sculpture by internationally recognized modern and contemporary artists, including Jeff Koons, Heinz Mack, Keith Haring, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, and Mark

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Stephen Antonakos: Complex Simplicity

The new Benaki Museum Annex, re-designed by architects Maria Kokkinou and Andreas Kourkoulas and situated in an industrial section of Athens, hosted a retrospective of the work of Stephen Antonakos last year. Although the building’s stone façade seems formidable, it wraps around a courtyard that offered a protective intimacy for Antonakos’s neon chapel.

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Catherine Burgess: Eloquent Enigmas

“Austere, elegant. Uncompromising, ambiguous. Stern, seductive. Lucid, mysterious. Lean, sumptuous.” This stream of adjectives comes from notes that I took on my most recent visit to Catherine Burgess’s studio in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The inherent contradictions in this list are not indications of indecisiveness on my part or that of the artist.

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