VOLTA NY returns for its fourth consecutive year, filling its borders with an array of cutting-edge artists from 83 galleries, representing 23 countries and 45 cities, in its central midtown Manhattan location opposite the iconic Empire State Building. Forty-five European dealers will [Read More]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
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The 14th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA NEW YORK) will open to the public on Thursday, April 14, and continue through Sunday, April 17, 2011, at the Park Avenue Armory. “This year, SOFA NEW YORK welcomes a number of [Read More]
A self-portrait by Jack Vettriano will go on show in the new Scottish National Portrait Gallery when it reopens in the autumn of 2011. Jack Vettriano’s painting, The Weight, which has been offered on long-term loan to the national collection from a [Read More]
Hauser & Wirth Zurich presents Louise Bourgeois Alex Van Gelder Armed Forces on view through 14 May 2011. Gnarled, sinewy and wrinkled with age, Louise Bourgeois’s hands were fascinating. Her hands are the subjects of portraits taken by the artist Alex Van [Read More]
The jury of the 2011 Joan Miró Prize has granted the award to the Palestinian-British artist residing in London and Berlin, Mona Hatoum, for her great skill in connecting personal experience with universal values. Hatoum’s sculptures, installations, performances and videos set her [Read More]
Everything is coded, nothing is really explained. That’s why you have to watch it a second time. But the underlying theme is the battle between history and the fleeting beauty of music – Douglas Gordon Gagosian Gallery pesents “k.364,” an exhibition by [Read More]
The title of the next Biennale de Lyon, A Terrible Beauty Is Born, is a verse from the poem Easter, 1916 written by W.B. Yeats on September of that year on the uprising by which hundreds of Irish rebels claimed emancipation from [Read More]
Now entering its fifth season, the Sunroom Project Space in Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in the Bronx, commissions emerging New York-area artists to create a new body of work or site-specific project as a solo [Read More]
This exhibition, on view Apr 17, 2011, is not so much a mid-career coverage of Vicky Civera’s work over the last twenty years but it is rather a celebratory focusing on major aspects and key incidentals of her work. It picks up [Read More]
Google has unveiled the Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Over the last 18 months Google has worked [Read More]
On the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, the Schirn presents an exhibition that focuses exclusively on the Surrealists’ three-dimensional production, which has never been on display in its full range before. Comprising about 180 works by 51 artists, the show with its [Read More]
The Colomb Art Gallery in London now represents the Norwegian sculptor Fredrik K.B. Fredrik K.B is a fellow of the Norwegian Sculptors Association and of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. In 2009 a jury elected him “young artist of the year” [Read More]
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art presents an exhibition of Prints by Edvard Munch on view through April 30, 2011. The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) is world-famous for his evocative depictions of universal human emotions and experiences––love, attraction, separation, [Read More]
A major solo exhibition dedicated to VALIE EXPORT opens Museion’s 2011 exhibition programme, continuing in the direction initiated in 2010, with the focus on female artists and the language of sculpture in a broader sense. On view 19 February – 1 May [Read More]