Swann Galleries’ auction of Important Photobooks and Photographs on Thursday, May 19, offers outstanding collection of 21ST Editions books from the fine art photography publisher and creator of The Journal of Contemporary Photography based in South Dennis, Mass. These 26 oversized, hand-bound and fully signed monographs and portfolios range from 1998 to 2010 and are […]
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it,” said American author Henry David Thoreau more than 150 years ago. Time and Money: Using Federal Data to Measure the Value of Performing Arts Activities is a new research note from the National Endowment for the Arts that looks at the value […]
The Republic of Macedonia is represented by two projects at the 54. International Art Exhibition in Venice– La Biennale di Venezia. One of them is the installation LEAP, which should take place in Palazzo Pesaro Papafava in Venice. LEAP is a story based on the ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche about man’s struggle […]
The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Co-Artistic Directors Seung H-Sang and Ai Weiwei would like to announce the fourth edition of the Gwangju Design Biennale. It is most regrettable that Ai Weiwei, Co-Artistic Director of the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale, has been detained since April 3rd and his whereabouts are still officially unknown. Ai Weiwei has […]
The Design Exchange presents Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba, on view through June 14, 2011 The exhibition is comprised of 49 images from Guy Tillim’s (South African, b. 1962) series Avenue Patrice Lumumba (2007-08). In this project Tillim records the architecture and infrastructure of colonial and postcolonial Africa. Guy Tillim, Apartment building, Beira, Mozambique, 2008, […]
The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), recognized three recipients of the 2011 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards. The categories of the program include (1) Excellence in Affordable Housing Design (2) Creating Community Connection […]
After twenty years of contradictory transition toward democracy, in the Eastern European contemporary art, the moralizing neoliberal paradigm has generated a counter-paradigm that aims to accommodate the structural discontinuity of the East, questioning the very legitimacy of the project of modernity with renewed understanding and a heightened degree of responsibility. With the intention of articulating […]
The rhythm of the seasons often brings a sense of renewal and inspiration to transform and change that can lift and awaken the human spirit. These artists have come together to rejoice in that inspiration and to remind us of nature’s beauty and inherent mystery. Noerdlinger’s travels to Iceland inspired her to paint Icelandic summer […]
Straat van Sculpturen is a five-part apparition that manifests itself within the public realm of the Bijlmermeer, an area in the Southeast of the Amsterdam. As one of the purest forms of modern utopia/distopia, the Bijlmer is now one of Europe’s largest urban renewal planning. The foundation critically examines these progressions by appointing another curator […]
Jim Goldberg (b.1953, USA) has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, which marks the 15th year of the Prize and the 40th anniversary of The Photographers’ Gallery. The prize was announced on Tuesday 26 April 2011 when the broadcaster and critic Miranda Sawyer presented the £30,000 award at a special ceremony. The Deutsche Börse […]
Ten days of contemporary art events devoted to Alighiero Boetti, 20–29 May 2011. Turin and Piedmont. Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994), one of the most enigmatic Italian artists of the 20th century, is the focus of this year’s Giorno per Giorno / Day by Day. The project consists in a calendar of exhibitions, video screenings, talks, and […]
The exhibition entitled “ARTIFICIAL PEACE (Contemporary Landscape)” showcases artist Kristaps Ģelzis—one of the most unique and brilliant personalities in Latvian contemporary art. EXHIBITION The “Artificial Peace (Contemporary Landscape)” strides the borderline between monumental painting and conceptualism while belonging to both. The works are in watercolour technique, using luminescent water-based acrylic paints. The interaction between colour, […]
