Hauser & Wirth

Art / 27 Jul 2018

Watch this space: the best NYC art galleries to know

NYC has some of the best art galleries in the world‚ but with over 1,500 to choose from, the sheer number is overwhelming. Not to worry, we’ve narrowed them down to some of our blue-chip favourites. David Zwirner Cologne native...

Art / 20 Jun 2018

At home with Calder: the artist’s hidden knack for domestic design

In September 1933, Alexander Calder and his wife Louisa purchased a property in Roxbury, northwest Connecticut. This 1760 farmhouse became the artist’s long-time home and studio: the American sculptor constantly adapted it to fit his growing family and built three...

Smiljan Radic’s 2014 Serpentine Pavilion.

Architecture / 7 Jun 2018

Where do the Serpentine Pavilions go after the summer season?

It won’t be long now before this year’s Serpentine Pavilion appears in Kensington Gardens, on the lawns outside the Serpentine Gallery. The latest edition has been designed by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, at 38 by far the youngest to...

Art / 4 Jun 2018

Roni Horn talks remote control in her upstate New York retreat

To get to Roni Horn’s home and studio in upstate New York, you drive through farm villages, past horses grazing on meadows, and after a few turns, reach a gate leading to a rugged dirt road. Even on a balmy...

Art / 23 Apr 2018

Art dealers Iwan and Manuela Wirth to open hotel in Scottish highlands

Having recently celebrated the opening of their first Asian outpost during Art Basel Hong Kong, Swiss art dealers Iwan and Manuela Wirth, of Hauser & Wirth, show no signs of slowing down. The power dealers have now set their sights...

Art / 22 Mar 2018

Anj Smith: making sense of desire and anxiety through a painter’s forensic language

British artist Anj Smith unveils her latest body of work in the exhibition ‘If Not, Winter’ at Hauser & Wirth’s Zurich gallery. The process has not been easy; most of her recent paintings were created while recovering from a period...

Art / 28 Feb 2018

A new show by artist Lorna Simpson summons fire, ice and history in reverse

Lorna Simpson can’t quite say where her practice is heading. ‘I don’t know,’ she exclaims with a big belly laugh, a frequent register for the artist. ‘And maybe that’s my response to even having a response to the work...

Art / 30 Jan 2018

Hauser & Wirth Somerset’s latest show celebrates rural life

What does a German illustrator at the turn of the 20th century have in common with American rock band the Grateful Dead? The answer: more than you might think, as established by ‘The Land We Live In – The Land...

Art / 24 Jan 2018

Larry Bell transforms Venice Beach fog into works of sheer beauty

‘Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse,’ wrote Joan Didion, referring to the caprice of the Santa Ana fog, proclaiming a kind of pathetic fallacy for the flittish and fickle rhythm of life in the city...

Art / 15 Nov 2017

Conversation piece: Hans Josephsohn and Peter Märkli meet at Hauser & Wirth

In the early autumn sunlight, the Piet Oudolf-designed garden at Hauser & Wirth in Somerset looks ephemeral with the deep browns and purples of the fauna muted by the cold. The air feels fresh and the complex of barns, with contemporary...

Watches & Jewellery / 13 Jun 2017

From Bourgeois to Baldessari, last chance to see Hauser & Wirth’s unmissable jewellery show

This week presents a last chance to see Hauser & Wirth’s blinder of an artist-jewellery show at its New York outpost. Curated by the former model and London-based jewellery designer Celia Forner, The Portable Art Project is a moveable design...

Art / 12 Jun 2017

Battle lines: in two new shows, artist Jenny Holzer proves that words are weapons

For nearly four decades, the American artist Jenny Holzer has put unexpected things into unlikely locations. She has projected verses of poetry onto the banks of the Tiber in Rome; relayed slogans across the electronic billboards in New York’s Times...