Taryn Simon

The art of the beautiful game: football moves off pitch and into the museum

Football has many guises. It is a pastime where schoolboys scrape knees in a courtyard; a tear-jerking symbol of national pride; a multi-billion dollar industry with corporate interest; a global franchise with a zealot-like devotion to the athletes – the...

Taryn Simon on the art of mourning and how social media is shaping grief

Having gathered professional mourners from around the world to perform their laments in New York in 2016, artist and erstwhile Wallpaper* Guest Editor Taryn Simon is now bringing her groundbreaking artwork to London, opening this evening. We caught up with...

Taryn Simon to bring her seminal installation on mourning rites to London

London-based arts organisation ArtAngel announced today that multidisciplinary artist Taryn Simon will bring her 2016 work An Occupation of Loss to London this April. Originally staged at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, the project saw Simon bring professional mourners from some...

A cataloguer of truth, Taryn Simon reveals the patterns behind seemingly random images

21 years, 21 Guest Editors: from Dieter Rams to Jeff Koons, via Zaha Hadid and Hedi Slimane

A hole in one: celebrating 21 years of life-enhancing stuff

This month marks Wallpaper’s coming of age: our 21st anniversary. It’s also my tenth year as editor-in-chief, having switched from being creative director in April 2007. I must confess that my coming of age came a number of years earlier...

The art of mourning: Taryn Simon explores performance, grief and death in Manhattan

Multidisciplinary artist Taryn Simon’s work is known for its many layers of complexity, often requiring years of research and hours of intense organisation to realise. So when Simon describes the process behind her first-ever directed performance, ‘An Occupation of Loss’...

Flower power: Taryn Simon explores politics and global wealth at the Gagosian

When artist Taryn Simon came across a photo of Adolf Hitler signing an agreement surrounded by dignitaries, she was struck by a seemingly incongruous floral centerpiece in the middle of the scene. Later, she noticed another flower arrangement in a...

’Black Square’ exhibition by Wallpaper* guest editor Taryn Simon, Athens

Taryn Simon’s last show, ’A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII’, opened at Moma in New York and travelled on to Tate Modern via Moca in LA. It was a tour that established Simon - one of the...