Sentences with phrase «idea at art fairs»

We often post work we see by General Idea at art fairs and that's because it's one of the few examples of socially minded art - making that regularly gets exhibited.

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Around a year later I approached him at the Expo Chicago, an art fair in which we both participated, and suggested the idea of hosting a group show in tribute to his career.

First shown at the London Art Fair in January, we are pleased to now present here, Eric Great - Rex «Islands, a series of ceramic tiles where the artist plays with the idea of metaphorical islands and the enigmatic territory of emotions and feelings.

Efficient markets and perpetual art fairs have eaten away at both — giving new meaning to Kant's idea of beauty as «purposiveness without a purpose.»

Recent artistic work has been seen at Exit Art (Collective / Performative), EIDIA House / Plato's Cave, IV Soldiers, Panoply Performance Laboratory, SCOPE Art Fair (Us vs. Us), Fountain Miami (Grace Exhibition Space survey of Contemporary Visual Performance), Agape Enterprise (Tea Will Be Served), and the New Museum's Festival of Ideas for the New City (Farm City) as well as throughout public spaces in New York City.

Just take a look at exhibitions, at art auctions, fairs — different forms of abstract art appear everywhere, and it's impossible to follow contemporary art without respecting the important place abstract ideas have in today's world of the arts.

His good friend and fineartmultiple gallery partner, Carolina Nitsch, hosted a special celebratory dinner for the artist — who helped redefine contemporary art alongside his collective General Idea and set up the NY Art Book Fair — at his favorite restaurant in Basart alongside his collective General Idea and set up the NY Art Book Fair — at his favorite restaurant in BasArt Book Fair — at his favorite restaurant in Basel.

2011 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, US Litos Grafere, Danish Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, DE; Museum of Stavanger, NO Freeriding, East / West Galleries, Woman's University, Denton, Texas, US Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960 - 75, Ziehersmith, New York, US Intrusions, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, FR Compagni Di Viaggio - Traveling Companions, Mestna Galerija Ljubliana, SI L'Insoutenable Légéreté de L'Être, Yvon Lambert, VIP Art Fair, Online Art Fair, New York, US Box is a Box is a Box, Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris, FR Drawn / Taped / Burned Abstraction on Paper, Kotonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich, DE Works from the Pentti Kouri Collection, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, US Picasso: Guitars 1912 - 1914, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US Berlin International Film Festival, various theaters around Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE Observadores - Revelaҫões, Trânsitos e Distâncias, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT Market Art Fair, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE Feuille à Feuille, Musée de Vence, FR TextVideo / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Gallery, Seoul, KR Topography / Topography, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, US Bidoun Project, Mercer Street, New York, US Temporary Stedelijk 2 - Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Push Pull, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL Bild / Objekt: Neuere Amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH Tod's Art Plus Drama Party 2011, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, US CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US 100 Briques Pour Madagascar Œuvres Contemporaines, Hotel Marcel Dassault, Paris, FR Bomb 30th Anniversary Gala and Silent Auction, Capitale, New York, US Benefit Auction from the Icelandic Wetlands, The Culture House, Reykjavik, IS Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Arratia, Beer Gallery, Berlin, DE After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum and Art Production Fund, New York, US A Place to Which We Can Come, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, New York, US The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Designing the Whitney of the Future, Hurst Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, CN Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT Jeff Wall The Crooked Path, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE Through the Warp, Regina Rex, Ridgewood, New York, US Interloqui, National Glass Center, The University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, IT Arte in Movimento, La Galleria, Venice, IT Middle Age, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Brooke Alexander Editions, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, DE Void if Removed: Concrete Erudition 4, Le Plateau - Fonds Régional d'art Contemporaind «Ile - de-France, Paris, FR As Far as the Eye Can See, The Field Sculpture Park, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York, US 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, DE Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1975 - 1979, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, FR Play Time, Lieu D'art Contemporain, Sigean, FR Plot: Plan: Process Works on Paper from the 1960's to Now, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, US Distant Star / Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US 15 Minutes Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, US Seoul International New Media Festival, various cinemas in Seoul, KR Art = Text = Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Henrico, US Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Belvedere.

1989 Concept - Decoratif (Anti-Formalist Art of the 70s), Nahan Contemporary, New York, US The Presence of Absence: New Installations, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, US; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, US; Laumeire Sculpture Park and Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, US; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, US; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, CA; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, US; Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, Texas, US; Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Idaho, US; Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, US; The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, US; University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, MX; Otis / Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, California, US Words, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, US Inedits / I, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, FR; APAC, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Nevers, FR Micro Sculpture, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, US Early Conceptual Works, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, US From Concept to Context, The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, CA Saga 89, Eric Linard Editions, Grand - Palais, Paris, FR Un Choix dans les Collections du Nouveau Musee de Villeurbanne, Palais de Beaux Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi, BE Collections du Frac Nord Pas - de-Calais, Santa Scolastica, Bari, IT Group Show, San Francisco University Art Department Gallery, A&I Room 201, San Francisco, US Word / Image, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, US Ad Usum Dimorae, Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice, IT Bilderstreit, Ludwig Museum, Rheinhallen, Cologne fair grounds, Cologne, DE From the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, US Open Mind - Circuit Ferme, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE Ohne Auftrag, Mai 36 Gallery, Art Frankfurt, The New International Art Fair, Frankfurt, DE Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou and Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, FR Competition Diomede, The Clocktower Gallery, New York, US; San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery, A&I Room 201, San Francisco, California, US Ideas and Ephemera, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conneticut, US Geometrie Meridienne, Chateau Coquelle, FRAC Nord Pas - de-Calais, Dunkerque, FR Noise et Fenetres en Vue, Musee d'Art Moderne, Liege, BE Locus Solus XII, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Fondation Daniel Templon, L'Exposition Inaugurale, Capitou, FR Furkart 1989, Furkapasshoehe, CH Analytic to Poetic, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California, US Skulpturen für Krefeld I, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, DE John Miller / Gary Mirabelle / Lawrence Weiner, American Fine Arts Co, New York, US In Other Words, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, DE Gran Pavese: The Flag Project, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, BE; Druot Montaigne, Paris, FR Another Group Show, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Forum, Stalke Gallery, Hamburg, DE Hier Wird Getanzt, XPO Galerie, Hamburg, DE Group Show, Elizabeth Kaufman, Basel, CH Lineart»89 Gent, Galerie B. Coppens and R. Van De Velde, Flanders Expo, Brussels, BE «Dreams» and Other Works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Moscow - Vienna - New York, Wiener Festwochen, Messepalast, Vienna, AT Minimal and Conceptuel, Oeuvres Anciennes, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, FR The Library - Artists» Books, A / D, New York, US Hamburg Projekt 1989, Hamburg, DE Einleuchten, Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon / Werke aus der Sammlung, Stadtische Galerie Goppingen, Goppingen, DE Sculptures de Kabakof, et al, ELAC, Lyon, FR Conceptual Art - Une Perspective, ARC, Paris, FR; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid, ES Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Bel voor de Laatste Ronde, Art and Project, Amsterdam, NL Die Letzen 22 Jahre, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE Acchrochage für Tatlin, Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, US; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, US; Laumeire Sculpture Park and Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, US; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, US; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, CA; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, US; Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, Texas, US; Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Idaho, US; Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, US; The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, US; University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, MX; Otis / Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, California, US Words, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, US Inedits / I, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, FR; APAC, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Nevers, FR Micro Sculpture, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, US Early Conceptual Works, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, US From Concept to Context, The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, CA Saga 89, Eric Linard Editions, Grand - Palais, Paris, FR Un Choix dans les Collections du Nouveau Musee de Villeurbanne, Palais de Beaux Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi, BE Collections du Frac Nord Pas - de-Calais, Santa Scolastica, Bari, IT Group Show, San Francisco University Art Department Gallery, A&I Room 201, San Francisco, US Word / Image, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, US Ad Usum Dimorae, Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice, IT Bilderstreit, Ludwig Museum, Rheinhallen, Cologne fair grounds, Cologne, DE From the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, US Open Mind - Circuit Ferme, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE Ohne Auftrag, Mai 36 Gallery, Art Frankfurt, The New International Art Fair, Frankfurt, DE Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou and Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, FR Competition Diomede, The Clocktower Gallery, New York, US; San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery, A&I Room 201, San Francisco, California, US Ideas and Ephemera, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conneticut, US Geometrie Meridienne, Chateau Coquelle, FRAC Nord Pas - de-Calais, Dunkerque, FR Noise et Fenetres en Vue, Musee d'Art Moderne, Liege, BE Locus Solus XII, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Fondation Daniel Templon, L'Exposition Inaugurale, Capitou, FR Furkart 1989, Furkapasshoehe, CH Analytic to Poetic, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California, US Skulpturen für Krefeld I, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, DE John Miller / Gary Mirabelle / Lawrence Weiner, American Fine Arts Co, New York, US In Other Words, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, DE Gran Pavese: The Flag Project, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, BE; Druot Montaigne, Paris, FR Another Group Show, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Forum, Stalke Gallery, Hamburg, DE Hier Wird Getanzt, XPO Galerie, Hamburg, DE Group Show, Elizabeth Kaufman, Basel, CH Lineart»89 Gent, Galerie B. 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Van De Velde, Flanders Expo, Brussels, BE «Dreams» and Other Works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Moscow - Vienna - New York, Wiener Festwochen, Messepalast, Vienna, AT Minimal and Conceptuel, Oeuvres Anciennes, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, FR The Library - Artists» Books, A / D, New York, US Hamburg Projekt 1989, Hamburg, DE Einleuchten, Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon / Werke aus der Sammlung, Stadtische Galerie Goppingen, Goppingen, DE Sculptures de Kabakof, et al, ELAC, Lyon, FR Conceptual Art - Une Perspective, ARC, Paris, FR; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid, ES Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Bel voor de Laatste Ronde, Art and Project, Amsterdam, NL Die Letzen 22 Jahre, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE Acchrochage für Tatlin, Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorffair grounds, Cologne, DE From the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, US Open Mind - Circuit Ferme, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE Ohne Auftrag, Mai 36 Gallery, Art Frankfurt, The New International Art Fair, Frankfurt, DE Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou and Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, FR Competition Diomede, The Clocktower Gallery, New York, US; San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery, A&I Room 201, San Francisco, California, US Ideas and Ephemera, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conneticut, US Geometrie Meridienne, Chateau Coquelle, FRAC Nord Pas - de-Calais, Dunkerque, FR Noise et Fenetres en Vue, Musee d'Art Moderne, Liege, BE Locus Solus XII, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Fondation Daniel Templon, L'Exposition Inaugurale, Capitou, FR Furkart 1989, Furkapasshoehe, CH Analytic to Poetic, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California, US Skulpturen für Krefeld I, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, DE John Miller / Gary Mirabelle / Lawrence Weiner, American Fine Arts Co, New York, US In Other Words, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, DE Gran Pavese: The Flag Project, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, BE; Druot Montaigne, Paris, FR Another Group Show, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Forum, Stalke Gallery, Hamburg, DE Hier Wird Getanzt, XPO Galerie, Hamburg, DE Group Show, Elizabeth Kaufman, Basel, CH Lineart»89 Gent, Galerie B. Coppens and R. Van De Velde, Flanders Expo, Brussels, BE «Dreams» and Other Works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Moscow - Vienna - New York, Wiener Festwochen, Messepalast, Vienna, AT Minimal and Conceptuel, Oeuvres Anciennes, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, FR The Library - Artists» Books, A / D, New York, US Hamburg Projekt 1989, Hamburg, DE Einleuchten, Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon / Werke aus der Sammlung, Stadtische Galerie Goppingen, Goppingen, DE Sculptures de Kabakof, et al, ELAC, Lyon, FR Conceptual Art - Une Perspective, ARC, Paris, FR; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid, ES Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Bel voor de Laatste Ronde, Art and Project, Amsterdam, NL Die Letzen 22 Jahre, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE Acchrochage für Tatlin, Stadtische Kunsthalle DusseldorfFair, Frankfurt, DE Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou and Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, FR Competition Diomede, The Clocktower Gallery, New York, US; San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery, A&I Room 201, San Francisco, California, US Ideas and Ephemera, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conneticut, US Geometrie Meridienne, Chateau Coquelle, FRAC Nord Pas - de-Calais, Dunkerque, FR Noise et Fenetres en Vue, Musee d'Art Moderne, Liege, BE Locus Solus XII, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Fondation Daniel Templon, L'Exposition Inaugurale, Capitou, FR Furkart 1989, Furkapasshoehe, CH Analytic to Poetic, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California, US Skulpturen für Krefeld I, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, DE John Miller / Gary Mirabelle / Lawrence Weiner, American Fine Arts Co, New York, US In Other Words, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, DE Gran Pavese: The Flag Project, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, BE; Druot Montaigne, Paris, FR Another Group Show, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Forum, Stalke Gallery, Hamburg, DE Hier Wird Getanzt, XPO Galerie, Hamburg, DE Group Show, Elizabeth Kaufman, Basel, CH Lineart»89 Gent, Galerie B. Coppens and R. Van De Velde, Flanders Expo, Brussels, BE «Dreams» and Other Works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Moscow - Vienna - New York, Wiener Festwochen, Messepalast, Vienna, AT Minimal and Conceptuel, Oeuvres Anciennes, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, FR The Library - Artists» Books, A / D, New York, US Hamburg Projekt 1989, Hamburg, DE Einleuchten, Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon / Werke aus der Sammlung, Stadtische Galerie Goppingen, Goppingen, DE Sculptures de Kabakof, et al, ELAC, Lyon, FR Conceptual Art - Une Perspective, ARC, Paris, FR; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid, ES Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Bel voor de Laatste Ronde, Art and Project, Amsterdam, NL Die Letzen 22 Jahre, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE Acchrochage für Tatlin, Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, AT Fondation Daniel Templon, L'Exposition Inaugurale, Capitou, FR Furkart 1989, Furkapasshoehe, CH Analytic to Poetic, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California, US Skulpturen für Krefeld I, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, DE John Miller / Gary Mirabelle / Lawrence Weiner, American Fine Arts Co, New York, US In Other Words, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, DE Gran Pavese: The Flag Project, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, BE; Druot Montaigne, Paris, FR Another Group Show, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Forum, Stalke Gallery, Hamburg, DE Hier Wird Getanzt, XPO Galerie, Hamburg, DE Group Show, Elizabeth Kaufman, Basel, CH Lineart»89 Gent, Galerie B. Coppens and R. Van De Velde, Flanders Expo, Brussels, BE «Dreams» and Other Works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Moscow - Vienna - New York, Wiener Festwochen, Messepalast, Vienna, AT Minimal and Conceptuel, Oeuvres Anciennes, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, FR The Library - Artists» Books, A / D, New York, US Hamburg Projekt 1989, Hamburg, DE Einleuchten, Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon / Werke aus der Sammlung, Stadtische Galerie Goppingen, Goppingen, DE Sculptures de Kabakof, et al, ELAC, Lyon, FR Conceptual Art - Une Perspective, ARC, Paris, FR; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid, ES Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Bel voor de Laatste Ronde, Art and Project, Amsterdam, NL Die Letzen 22 Jahre, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE Acchrochage für Tatlin, Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, AT Forum, Stalke Gallery, Hamburg, DE Hier Wird Getanzt, XPO Galerie, Hamburg, DE Group Show, Elizabeth Kaufman, Basel, CH Lineart»89 Gent, Galerie B. Coppens and R. Van De Velde, Flanders Expo, Brussels, BE «Dreams» and Other Works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Moscow - Vienna - New York, Wiener Festwochen, Messepalast, Vienna, AT Minimal and Conceptuel, Oeuvres Anciennes, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, FR The Library - Artists» Books, A / D, New York, US Hamburg Projekt 1989, Hamburg, DE Einleuchten, Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon / Werke aus der Sammlung, Stadtische Galerie Goppingen, Goppingen, DE Sculptures de Kabakof, et al, ELAC, Lyon, FR Conceptual Art - Une Perspective, ARC, Paris, FR; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid, ES Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Bel voor de Laatste Ronde, Art and Project, Amsterdam, NL Die Letzen 22 Jahre, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE Acchrochage für Tatlin, Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, AT Minimal and Conceptuel, Oeuvres Anciennes, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, FR The Library - Artists» Books, A / D, New York, US Hamburg Projekt 1989, Hamburg, DE Einleuchten, Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon / Werke aus der Sammlung, Stadtische Galerie Goppingen, Goppingen, DE Sculptures de Kabakof, et al, ELAC, Lyon, FR Conceptual Art - Une Perspective, ARC, Paris, FR; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid, ES Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Bel voor de Laatste Ronde, Art and Project, Amsterdam, NL Die Letzen 22 Jahre, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE Acchrochage für Tatlin, Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, DE

My favourite Basel art experiences was visiting the Volta art fair which was situated in an industrial suburb of Basel and had a very exciting showing of international cutting edge galleries that took big risks with new avenues of exploration or had novel ideas on curation — new art stars could be seen forming among the interstellar dust — it was good to see my art friend Martin Brown here with a good one man show at his London based gallery — Fred who were showing here.

Elsewhere, cocking a snook at the idea of art as commodity, Matthew Darbyshire has redesigned the fair's ticket office in lurid pink (inspired, apparently, by the interior of a certain mobile - phone store) and Gabriel Kuri has replaced the ashtrays with sculptures.