Preview Art Basel 2015

The 2015 edition of Art Basel opens Tuesday, June 16, to invited guests. This year's fair includes areorganization of the gallery booth layout, with many of those presenting work that dates from 1900to 1970 grouped together on the lower level of Hall 2.

The fair will include 284 galleries from 33 countries, showing work by more than 4,000 artists.Among the highlights are Carrie Mae Weems at New York's Jack Shainman, Danny McDonald atNew York's Maccarone, Joris van de Moortel at Galerie Nathalie Obadia of Paris and Brussels, andvideo by Julieta Aranda, which will be shown in the film section by Mexico City's Galeria OMR.

Jack Shainman, New YorkCarrie Mae Weems, You Became a Playmate to the Patriarch/And TheirDaughter, 1995-96, C-print with sandblasted text on glass.

©CARRIE MAE WEEMS/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK

Victoria Miro, LondonSarah Sze, Stone Series, 2013-15.

Galerie Guido W. Baudach, BerlinThilo Heinzmann, O. T., 2014, oil and pigment on canvas behindplexiglass cover.

ROMAN MÄRZ/COURTESY GALERIE GUIDO W. BAUDACH, BERLIN

Maccarone, New YorkDanny McDonald, The Thirst, 2014, mixed media.

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New YorkWilliam Klein, Club Allegro, Fortissimo, Paris, 1990, gelatinsilver print.

©WILLIAM KLEIN/COURTESY HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY, NEW YORK

Petzel, New YorkThomas Eggerer, Grey Harvest, 2013, acrylic and oil on canvas.

Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, LisbonRosângela Rennó, from the series "Insólidos - Untitled(bacia)," 2014, digital print on pure silk organza with aluminum structure and other objects.

COURTESY THE ARTIST AND CRISTINA GUERRA CONTEMPORARY ART, LISBON

A arte Invernizzi, MilanMario Nigro, Spazio totale, 1955: divergenze simultanee drammatiche, 1955,varnished tempera on canvas.

Kicken ,BerlinSibylle Bergemann, Gummlin, Usedom, from "Das Denkmal," 1984, gelatin silver print.

©OSTKREUZ/COURTESY KICKEN BERLIN

Galeria OMR, Mexico CityJulieta Aranda, What Right?, 2014, video.

Fraenkel Gallery, San FranciscoChristian Marclay, Silence (The Electric Chair), 2006 silkscreen inkon paper.

©CHRISTIAN MARCLAY/COURTESY FRAENKEL GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO

Galerie Michael Haas, BerlinGeorges Braque, Compotier aux trois pommes, 1941, oil on canvas.

Tanya Leighton, BerlinOliver Laric, Untitled.

Peter Blum Gallery, New YorkYayoi Kusama, Untitled, 1952, pastel on paper.

Buchmann Galerie, BerlinTony Cragg, Stroke, 2014, bronze.

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin and ParisThomas Struth, Vacuum Chamber, JPL, Pasadena, 2013.

Tucci Russo Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, ItalyFrancesco Gennari, Autoritratto nellostudio, 2014, Rosa Portogallo marble.

FRANCESCO GENNARI/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND TUCCI RUSSO STUDIO PER L'ARTECONTEMPORANEA

Dvir Gallery, Tel AvivMircea Cantor, The world belongs to those who set it on fire, 2015, candlesmoke on paper.

Casey Kaplan, New YorkHaris Epaminonda, Untitled #385, 2008, Polaroid.

COURTESY THE ARTIST AND CASEY KAPLAN, NEW YORK

Moeller Fine Art, New YorkAlexander Archipenko, Flat Torso, n.d.

COURTESY MOELLER FINE ART

vera munro, HamburgJanis Avotins, Untitled, 2011, oil on canvas.

COURTESY GALERIE VERA MUNRO

Galerie Thomas Zander, CologneVictor Burgin, Office at Night, 1986, 7 triptyches and one text paneland gelatin silver prints and vinyl film.

©VICTOR BURGIN/COURTESY GALERIE THOMAS ZANDER, COLOGNE

Fergus McCaffrey, New York and St. BarthsTatsuo Ikeda, Oval Space No. 3, 1963-64, oil on board.

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and BrusselsJoris van de Moortel, Amplified vocals (the Ur Gerausch),2014, wood, plexiglass, neon, tube light (green and white), gouache, bronze, steel, and photographicprint.

COURTESY GALERIE NATHALIE OBADIA, PARIS/BRUXELLES

Mitchell-Innes Nash, New YorkJay DeFeo, White Water, 1989, oil on linen.

©2015 THE JAY DEFEO TRUST/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/COURTESYMITCHELL-INNES NASH, NY

Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, B.C.Ian Wallace, The Constructor (VI, VII, VIII), 1976, 3 hand-coloredsilver gelatin prints.

Galerie Hopkins, ParisJean Dubuffet, Chapeau a? rayures, 1955.

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