After a successful first year, Legacy Trust and VSA Michigan-Grand Rapids are again looking for adult artists with disabilities to compete in this year’s Legacy Trust Award Collection for ArtPrize 2011. A statewide art competition designed to encourage participation in ArtPrize, the […]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
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The Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes Ppresents Hans Schabus Nichts geht mehr open 25 February–24 April 2011. Hans Schabus, “Demolirerpolka,” 2006. View of the exhibition “Fabricateurs d’espaces,” 17 October 2008 – 4 January 2009, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes. © Blaise Adilon The Institut […]
The G2 Gallery presents Boreal Future: Our Last Great Forest and The Threat of The Tar Sands, a solo exhibit of photography by Garth Lenz on view through March 27, 2011. At 1.3 billion acres, the Canadian Boreal Forest is perhaps the […]
Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening sale in London was led by Pablo Picasso’s iconic 1932 painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter, La Lecture, which sold to a round of applause for £25,241,250 /$40,711,612 / €29,744,296, more than double the low estimate (est. £12 – […]
The second edition of INDEPENDENT, the award winning temporary exhibition forum devised by and for gallerists will take place at the former DIA Center for the Arts and building at 548 W 22nd Street March 3-6, 2011 during New York Art Fair […]
M.C. Escher: Impossible Realities, on view at the Akron Art Museum now thriugh May 29, 2011, presents the rare and thrilling privilege of examining first-hand the masterworks of Maurits Cornelis Escher. One of the most brilliant yet enigmatic artists of the 20th […]
De Appel presents Mika Rottenberg “Dough cheese squeeze and tropical breeze. Video works 2003-2010” on view 12 March–8 May 2011. Exceptional women, such as the powerful Heather Foster, the sizeable Queen Raqui (‘Her body Utterly Amazing, Her agility astounding’), and the super-tall […]
Venezuelan-born Luis Pérez-Oramas will be responsible for the 30th São Paulo International Biennial to be held in 2012. Pérez-Oramas is expected to begin working as soon as the appointment is made public, putting together the curatorial team that will accompany him in […]
The University of Virginia Art Museum presents Excavating New Ground: American Art in the 1970s on view through August 14, 2011. The 1970s opened with three momentous occurrences: the announcement of the breakup of the Beatles in April, the Kent State shootings […]
Ayse Erkmen will represent Turkey at the Venice Biennale 2011, 54th International Art Exhibition. Erkmen was selected for the Pavilion of Turkey by the international curator Fulya Erdemci. The pair will be working with London-based curator Danae Mossman, as curatorial collaborator, and […]
Magasin 3′s exhibition spaces will be filled with works by internationally acclaimed artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Fischli & Weiss, Claire Fontaine, Jeff Koons, Sigalit Landau and Sherrie Levine—many of them being shown in Sweden for the first time. Exhibition on view 17 […]
The Fundación Juan March Ppesents COLD AMERICA Geometrical Abstraction in Latin America (1934-1973) open through 15 May 2011. The exhibition sets out to chart the complex and fragmented path of geometric abstraction in Latin America so as to reveal the way in […]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the J. Paul Getty Trust have announced their joint acquisition of art and archival materials by or associated with Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the great photographers of the second half of the twentieth […]
Beginning in March, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) will present 13 exhibitions and projects, including work by more than 25 leading and emerging contemporary artists such as Terence Koh, Marysia Lewandowska, Tevor Paglen, and A.K. Burns, all […]