STUK arts centre presents Playground Live art festival, 4-12 November 2010. In the Playground exhibition, the installations and videos focus on performance in all its guises. Candice Breitz shows an improvised theatre performance featuring twins, Johanna Billing documented a choreographed routine performed [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts celebrates the centennial of legendary choreographer Alwin Nikolais in the multimedia exhibition Alwin Nikolais’ Total Theater of Motion. Curated by dance history scholar Claudia Gitelman, this exhibition brings to light the career of [Read More]
The Art Institute of Chicago opens Richard Hawkins – Third Mind, on view through January 16, 2011. Since the early 1990’s, Richard Hawkins has developed an emphatically diverse art practice that resists easy classification. Offering alternate histories through the juxtaposition of decidedly [Read More]
The fair will commence on November 30, 2010 with Art Miami’s highly anticipated Opening Night Preview Party benefiting The Lotus House Women’s Shelter, a quiet enclave in downtown Miami offering a sanctuary where the minds, bodies and spirits of homeless women and [Read More]
The Menil Collection presents Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, on view through January 30, 2011. The German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) remains one of the most influential figures of the international avant-garde. In the years following the First World War he coined [Read More]
Bonhams auctioneers will offer Fine Photographs on November 2, 2010. Simulcast between the New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms, the auction will feature a diverse selection of important works by 19th and 20th century American and European photographers, as well [Read More]
Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection, has announced the appointment of Klaus Ottmann as the museum’s first Curator at Large, a newly created position supported by a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He will direct the activities of [Read More]
Stephen Haller Gallery presents a solo exhibition of dynamic new work by NOBU FUKUI – canvases vibrant with invention. The exhibition opens October 21st and runs through the 27th of November. Fukui’s work reads as non-objective painting at a distance, yet on [Read More]
The Model presents Angelology: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, op[en 23 October 2010 – 16 January 2011. Angelology is a new large-scale installation project by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at The Model. This project takes the theme of angels—humanity’s imagination and romanticisation of [Read More]
Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin’s premier contemporary art center, celebrates its public reopening with festivities October 24, 2010, noon-8:00 p.m. Arthouse opens its doors after an extensive renovation and expansion project designed by award-winning New York-based Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects. Exhibitions planned for [Read More]
The exhibition Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers makes its final stop at the Walker Art Center October 23, 2010-February 13, 2011, following its premiere at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Yves Klein, People Begin to [Read More]
The 2nd Annual ArtShare for HeartShare, featuring artwork created by individuals with autism, cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities runs November 2 through November 13, 2010. It is being held at the New Century Artists Gallery, located at 530 W. 25th Street, [Read More]
For the past six years, Urban China has been engaged in a unique multidisciplinary inquiry into the rapid state of change in China, presented in the format of a magazine — the only one devoted to issues of urbanism published in and [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 November 2010 will offer Housatonic, a painting by Arshile Gorky, Est. $800,000/1.2 million*. The auction also includes major works by many of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Mark [Read More]