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Luxembourg & Dayan

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 / 1 Mar 2018

What’s in a kiss? Artists explore the expression of love in a new show

‘Kissing, like painting, never dies – but the perfect kiss, like a perfect painting, is almost impossible,’ says Francesco Bonami, curator of Luxembourg & Dayan’s new exhibition on the art of kissing in the 20th century, ‘Kiss Off’. The...

Art / 26 May 2017

Double act: Daniel Libeskind takes on modern masters of abstract sculpture

If there’s one thing abstract art is not, it’s straightforward. Packed with meaning, often beguilingly simple in design, the style has the power to simultaneously inspire and bewilder. Some may think a series of seemingly arbitrary curves and lines are...

Art / 19 Oct 2016

Monuments man: race car driver turned artist Salvatore Scarpitta’s radical realist works

While fighting for the US navy during the Second World War, Italian-American artist Salvatore Scarpitta was a ’monuments man’ – part of a team that traced and catalogued artworks stolen by the Nazis. This name now takes on new meaning, as...

Art / 23 Jun 2016

Horsing around: Luxembourg & Dayan brings ’Melodrama’ to its London gallery

Prolific Italian curator Francesco Bonami has a penchant for performance. Earlier this month, we saw his his avant-guard work inaugurating Joseph Nahmad’s new London space, and this time last year at Luxembourg & Dayan’s ’language as artistry’ exhibition. This summer, Luxembourg &...

Art / 29 Feb 2016

Helping hand: Luxembourg & Dayan explores the role of the artist’s assistant

Be it Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens, the notion of artists commanding workshops with a fleet of assistants to produce a plethora of paintings is an age-old tradition. Yet there’s been little exploration of the degree to which contemporary artists have...

Art / 9 Nov 2015

Renaissance man

’When I came here the other day, I entered this room and saw this painting,’ explained Roberta Cerini Baj, the widow of the Italian artist Enrico Baj. The painting she was referring to was The Double Grande Jatte, a 1971 mural...

Art / 16 Oct 2015

New vocabularies: Alberto Burri at Luxembourg & Dayan

A while back, the pioneering Italian artist Alberto Burri had slipped into the shadows, so to speak. But now with the Guggenheim Museum’s ‘Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting’ – the first retrospective in more than three decades – opening...

Art / 30 Jun 2015

The power of words: an exhibition of language as artistry at Luxembourg & Dayan

The power of the written word is being celebrated at London’s Luxembourg & Dayan gallery this summer, with an exhibition of poignant artworks that feature text as their focus. In the installation, titled ‘Word by Word,’ curator Francesco Bonami...

Art / 12 Aug 2014

That Obscure Object of Desire: Luxembourg & Dayan gallery explores sexuality, fetishism and obsession

Things are set to get racy in New York City when Luxembourg & Dayan opens its new show tomorrow. ’That Obscure Object of Desire’ - inspired by Luis Brunel’s 1977 film of the same title - will transform the gallery’s...

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