Subscribe to our newsletter

Subscribe to receive videos daily, and for news and events.

“Art is a way that one comforts oneself. It’s a way that I find solace and balance and quiet in my life. And that it reassures me that I can manifest something physical outside of myself. that then I can look at. It’s like a ‘proof’ of myself, but it’s also something I can turn around and look at these different facets of my consciousness or something like that. Or it can still remain inexplicable, or something that just occurs to you to do and you do it. ” — Kiki Smith

Occupying a former cinema in the small Tuscan town of San Gimignano since 1990, Galleria Continua some of the most unique series of exhibition spaces around the world (now also in Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana, and Rome). Ending soon at their historic space in San Gimignano is an exhibition of the American artist Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg, West Germany). Compass is open through February 9, 2020.

From Continua:

‘Compass’ refers not only to a navigational instrument but also a drawing instrument; a linguistic crossover and a functional crossover that is neatly representative of this exhibition which presents some of the artist’s most recent works alongside previously unseen ones.

In this video, Smith talks about the role of art in her life and in the world, accompanied by a walkthrough of the exhibition in Continua’s remarkable space.

Museums

Sponsor
8:04

MUSEUMS: Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine

5:24

MUSEUMS: For Walter J. Hood, Architecture Means Power

4:28

MUSEUMS: Fabric Workshop and Museum Explores Clay and Fabric

8:08

MUSEUMS: Julie Mehretu Behind-the-Scenes With Checkerboard Films

2:09

MUSEUMS: Alice Neel Paints Life “Hot off the Griddle”

Galleries

5:24

GALLERIES: Alec Soth Takes the Measure of Photography

6:09

GALLERIES: Pablo Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing

3:41

GALLERIES: For Landon Metz, Failure is an Option

4:17

GALLERIES: Jacob El Hanani Is a Line-Maker

1:09:20

LONGFORM: Sheila Hicks Reflects From Home in Paris

Studios

1:53

VAULT: Philip Guston Biopic Trailer (1981)

3:32

STUDIOS: Joep van Lieshout on Going Beyond Beautiful Design

5:02

STUDIOS: Peter Beard: “Nature is the best thing we’ve got”

10:34

STUDIOS: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Material Instinct (2000)

3:00

STUDIOS: Billy Childish Gets Out of the Way of the Picture

Community

36:17

PODCAST: ‘Barbara London Calling’ Launches Season 2

Sponsor
47:07

LONGFORM: Hughie O’Donoghue in Conversation with Charles Saumarez Smith

3:31

COMMUNITY: William Eric Brown Applies New Processes to Old

58:08

PODCAST: Heidi Zuckerman in Conversation with Adam Pendleton

22:57

LONGFORM: ‘To Cast Too Bold a Shadow’ Exhibition Walkthrough

Market

3:39

MARKET: For Kimsooja, Immaterial Art Achieves Memory

15:35

MARKET: How Christie’s and Sotheby’s Dominate the Art Market

3:00

MARKET: Ghada Amer on Being a Woman Artist

4:37

MARKET: Catherine Petitgas is an Enabler

2:34

MARKET: Kunsthalle Basel Is of Its Time