Richard Billingham

Richard Billingham made his name with a series of photographs showing his dysfunctional parents, Ray and Liz, in their squalid Black Country flat. Now he’s turned their story into an […]

Alexander McQueen

  Born in the East End and the son of a taxi driver, Alexander McQueen was the quintessential bad boy made good. He had brains and brawn, having survived over […]

Mary Ellen Mark

        Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism documentary photography,portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were “away from mainstream […]

Shirana Shahbazi

                   Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974) is an Iranian-born photographer who now lives in Switzerland. Her work includes installations and large conceptualized images of […]

David Brits

    David Brits was born in Cape Town in 1987, and grew up in a 265 year old Cape Dutch Homestead that has been in his family – the de Stadlers – for […]

Michael Heizer

                Working largely outside the confines of gallery and museum, Michael Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. […]

Julio Le Parc

        During the 1960s, Julio Le PARC (born in 1928 in Buenos Aires, lives and works in Cachan, France) was at the origin of numerous aesthetic practices […]

Marilyn Minter

MARILYN MINTER.  American, born 1948.  In visceral and gaudy paintings, photographs, and video works, Marilyn Minter examines the relationship between the body, cultural anxieties about sexuality and desire, and fashion […]

Ruven Afanador

                    Ruven Afanador (Colombian, b.1959) is a photographer. Born in Bucaramanga, La Ciudad de los Parques, he moved with his family to […]

Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami (b. 1963), one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking Japanese artists of the 1990s. His work ranges from cartoony paintings to quasi-minimalist sculptures to giant inflatable balloons to performance […]

BARCELONA in Flow-Motion – A fast moving short film…. by Rob Whitworth

Mind Blowing !!!! In few other cities is it possible […]

Enter Pyongyang by JT Singh and flow-motion videographer Rob Whitworth

Incredible Collaboration! “Enter Pyongyang” is another stunning collaboration between city-­branding […]

Ran Ortner

Ran Ortner’s work consists of paintings of the ocean on canvases that are as much as eight feet tall and thirty-two feet wide. They show no land, sky, boats, figures, […]

Tattoos, The Permanent Art

It seems that no matter how far we advance into the digital age, our bodies remain a place where we want to express ourselves. This episode of OFF BOOK profiles […]

Henrique Oliveira

    Artist Henrique Oliveira Constructs a Cavernous Network of Repurposed Wood Tunnels at MAC USP – Incredible!!!!!  Oliveira was born in Ourinhos, Brazil in 1973. He received a BFA in painting […]

Nanimarquina

“Art forms part of what hasn’t been done yet, what you still don’t believe in. It’s something that is apart from you, in front of you; something you have to […]