SITAC X announces 10th International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory. The Future: The Long Count Begins Again on February 9–11, 2012. SITAC X stakes a claim to the uncharted territory of the future by bringing together artists, theorists, writers, practitioners of the imagination and other adventurers who frequent the future to come together for three […]
Asia Week New York—the collaboration of 34 top international Asian art specialists, five major auction houses, and 17 museums and Asian cultural institutions— will take place March 16–24, 2012, throughout metropolitan New York, it was announced by Henry Howard-Sneyd, Chairman of Asia Week New York 2012, and Sotheby’s Vice-Chairman Asian Art, Americas. “Asia Week New […]
The Mechanical Hall Gallery at the University of Delaware presents Mechanical Hall Gallery announces Magical Visions. Ten Contemporary African American Artists an exhibition on view February 1–June 29, 2012. Magical Visions: Barkley Hendricks, Iconic Dexter, 2008/9, Archival pigment inkjet, 60 x 42 in. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY. Magical Visions: Ten […]
The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet, on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) January 20 – May 6, 2012, presents a series of intimate photographs showing the love and unguarded emotions shared by Richard and Mildred Loving, a shy, nonpolitical married couple whose landmark United […]
The The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major UK survey of British photographer, film-maker and installation artist Zarina Bhimji, open 19 January – 9 March 2012. Zarina Bhimji Your Sadness is Drunk. 2001-2006. Ilfochrome Ciba Classic Print.121.9 x 154.4 cm. Courtesy the artist and DACS, London. Landscapes and buildings haunted by their layered histories are […]
Snap Galleries presents Neal Preston. Gods & Rockers Preston’s first ever UK solo exhibition on view 28th January to 3rd March 2012. Neal’s career has already spanned four decades, and he’s gunning for a fifth. Neal Preston, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Backstage “He is probably best known for his Led Zeppelin archive, and it will […]
La Triennale 2012 announces its collaboration with Bétonsalon, le Crédac, Instants Chavirés, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Musée du Louvre and Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, six institutions based in Paris and the surrounding region. Ranging from large to small scale, the collaboration between La Triennale 2012 and these institutions will expand […]
The shortlist for the Artes Mundi 5 Exhibition and Prize was announced by Ben Borthwick, Artes Mundi’s Artistic Director, following an extensive research process by two selectors—Anders Kreuger, Curator at M HKA in Antwerp, Belgium and Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Curator of Contemporary Art at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and curatorial agent […]
Brooklyn, NY – “I’m going out for a cup of air,” Brooklyn artist Karen Gibbons’s mother would say to her five children as she stepped outside for a reprieve from the stresses of parenting. The free-standing sculpture and sculptural wall pieces in this exhibit, A Cup of Air, express that whimsical metaphor. They are playful, […]
