François Meyer’s Portraits D’Artistes

A photography book intimately documenting over 120 artists and their work over the last 40 years

When admiring art, many of us dream of the lives behind the pieces: glamorous, tortured, a life of creation. Even before this current age of voyeurism, not only did artists’ work draw the public eye, so did their lives. At the crossroads of this stands photographer François Meyer—a longtime collector, enthusiast and documentarian of those making it. Meyer himself is a curious, meticulous artist, and …

Grant Nimmo: Dreams That I’ve Thrown Down the Hall

An exhibition of colorful painted works complimented by eccentric sculptures

With his latest Australian exhibition “Dreams That I’ve Thrown Down the Hall,” Melbourne-based artist Grant Nimmo delivers vibrant mixed media works that offer a brief commentary on what he finds to be the frustrating state of contemporary art. Balanced atop large paintings, tiny human and animal busts stare into the distance—an equally important part of each piece. Nimmo blends both in an effort for self-reflection …

Chen Tianzhuo’s Picnic

Stoned astronauts, neon lights and religious iconography combine in this artist's striking works, on display now in Shanghai

An indolent psychonaut walks onto a stage in a brightly colored outfit and loads his bong with the ritual gestures of a tea master. He puts on a helmet—complete with a weed leaf-shaped halo—and as the bowl burns, a cloud of thick smoke fills the headgear. He sits between two flags, between two philosophical mantras: the Latin motto, “Ordo ab chao” (meaning order from chaos) …