The Fine Art Dealers Association and the Los Angeles Art Show, LLC announce that an agreement in principle has been reached with the Fine Art Dealers Association to acquire all of the assets of the Los Angeles Art Show, including the new LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary, the Los Angeles Fine […]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
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Anna Barriball’s first major survey exhibition at MK Gallery, on view 30 September–27 November 2011, brings together drawing, video, photography and sculpture made over the last decade. Barriball’s early work often involves transforming ordinary items: Bag drawing, 2000, a disposable, white plastic bag is completely covered with red marker pen to create […]
SculptureCenter presents Sanford Biggers: Cosmic Voodoo Circus, on view through November 28, 2011. In Cosmic Voodoo Circus, Biggers exploits the carnival aesthetic to address profound issues of identity, the power of objects, as well as spiritual and cultural transmigration. At the center of Biggers’ installation is a new video titled Shake, the […]
FotoFest is to present the 14th International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art, with a focus on Contemporary Russian Photography, from March 16 through April 29, 2012. Organized in conjunction with Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, IRIS Art Foundation and RIA Novosti, Russia’s leading news information agency, the FotoFest 2012 Biennial […]
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces a Juried Art Competition with the theme “The Elements” for the Month of October 2011. All 2D artists, including photography and excluding video from around the world are called upon to make online submissions to the gallery. The winners of this art competition will […]
Gagosian Gallery Rome presents Dan Colen’s first major exhibition in Rome, on view SEPTEMBER 19 – OCTOBER 29, 2011. I’m interested in using the “real world” as a material and a force within my process. I like how these materials take some control away from me, allowing for a more uncertain future […]
The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) announce that Alberta-based writer, critic and curator Nancy Tousley will curate the 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art. The exhibition, presented by ATB Financial, will be on view at the AGA from January 26-May 6, 2013. A Call for Submissions is now open to resident Alberta […]
The FLAG Art Foundation presents Jane Hammond: Fallen, a monumental ongoing installation consisting of over 4,000 unique handmade leaves each inscribed with the name of a American soldier killed in the war in Iraq, on the 10th floor. The exhibition will be on view through December 17, 2011. Each leaf is unique, […]
The Showroom presents Petra Bauer: Sisters! on view 29 September–19 November 2011. Preview: 28 September, 6.30–9pm, with film screenings at 6.30pm and 7.40pm. Petra Bauer, “Sisters!,” film still, 2011 A new video-installation, Sisters! is a collaboration between Swedish artist Petra Bauer and the Southall Black Sisters—the radical, pioneering London-based feminist organisation, who […]
The jury of the International Contemporary Art Prize Diputació de Castelló, gathered on September 13th 2011, has decided to give the prize to the artist Esmé Valk (Wijhe, The Netherlands, 1977) “because her installation is an aesthetic and historical exploration of the artistic correspondence between the geometry of designs for display cases […]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has acquired Frank Stella’s Palmito Ranch (1961) from the artist’s landmark “Benjamin Moore” series, which ushered in a new current of Minimalism in American art. The acquisition is a combination museum purchase from the Caroline Wiess Law Accession Endowment and gift from the artist, who made […]
From October 6th to October 16th 2011, the second edition of EVENTO offers carte blanche to Michelangelo Pistoletto and his foundation Cittadellarte, to initiate an original, surprising and festive event of contemporary creation. Every two years, EVENTO offers international artists a chance of taking a fresh look at the city of Bordeaux, […]
The meeting of the ARCOmadrid 2012 Organising Committee was held last Monday 11 July and Tuesday 12 July. We are particularly happy with the quality and quantity of applications received. In the upcoming months we will continue working on the various phases before reaching the definitive list of galleries to take part […]
The Nottingham Contemporary announces a solo exhibition by Klaus Weber alongside an exhibition of equal size he has curated. If you leave me I’m not coming features a number of new works and is Weber’s largest exhibition since Secession in 2008. Already there! features some 200 objects from the last 1 million […]
Gagosian Gallery presents Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010), two new sculptures by Richard Serra. Serra has pushed the unique sculptural syntax that he developed over the last fifteen years to arrive at entirely new forms in two of his most complex and challenging works to date. Born in 1938, Richard Serra is […]