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 [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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]
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]