Marc Lafia 马克·拉菲亚 United States, b. 1955

BANK was born 10 years ago out of a happy mistake. It started with the discovery of a special space, a whim, and some hutzpah. It is now a global...

https://www.artsy.net/viewing-room/bank-slash-mabsociety-marc-lafias-drawing-cov-2/works BANK is honored to announce that Marc Lafia's Drawing CoV-2, online show is now on view on Artsy's viewing room. Marc Lafia's recent drawings were made between January and...

In 1947, André Malraux proposed the idea 'Le Musée Imaginaire' (the Imaginary Museum), whereby actual artworks no longer had to be presented in a physical museum. Instead, with the advent...

Red is the warmest of all colors, the color of prosperity and joy but also of temper or anger. Red is the color of Mars, known as the God of...

In his seminal book, Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud enumerates what he sees as the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction, he asserts, stems from...

LAOWAI 老外 is a Chinese colloquial term for ‘foreigner’. For a culture that is overwhelmingly dominated by the Han Chinese ethnicity, laowai simply denotes those who are not Chinese, and...