The Museum of the City of New York presents Stories the City Tells Itself. The Video Art and Photography of Neil Goldberg, an exhibition on view through May 28, 2012. Stories the City Tells Itself Subway Trapezoids, 2011-2012 Giclee print Courtesy of [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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On November 8, under the direction of Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Artissima 19 will be inaugurating a far-reaching programme that features an outstanding selection of cutting-edge contemporary art galleries. The Oval pavilion will host top-tier booth presentations by established and emerging galleries from [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art presents Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes” an exhibition on view April 09, 2012. Eugène Atget, Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève, June 1925. Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print, 6 11/16 x 8 3/4″ (17 x 22.2 cm). The Museum of [Read More]
The Aachen Art Prize for 2012 is scheduled to be awarded to British artist Phyllida Barlow. Born in Newcastle in 1944, Phyllida Barlow primarily works with sculpture, her works being characterised by a forceful connection to place. With prize money of 10,000 [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced a generous donation of 25 photographs by acclaimed 20th century photographer Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). A gift of Carol Vernon and her husband Robert Turbin in memory of Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, “The Museum Set” was [Read More]
Wyspa Institute of Art announces Alternativa 2012 a project that seeks diverse modes of knowing and explores possible ways of being and acting in contemporaneity. This year’s programme comprises two exhibitions, entitled respectively Materiality and Wyspa. Now is Now. Aneta Szyłak, the [Read More]
The Hague Museum of Photography presents Pieter Hugo. This must be the place, an exhibition on view 3 March 2012 – 20 May 2012. The South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s (Johannesburg, 1976) monumental photographs, centred around contemporary Africa, are now well known [Read More]
The tenth edition of the Dakar Biennale takes place in a particular context. 2012 is the year of the elections, as was 2000. This year also marks the twentieth anniversary of the longest-established biennale on the African continent. The theme chosen for [Read More]
LONDON – Sophie Dickens’ work as a sculptor is figurative, not conceptual, and she describes her subjects as ‘within the context of traditional art.’ Her inspiration comes from Michelangelo, ancient Greek tradition and the ‘kinematic” skills of photographer Eadward Muybridge, with an [Read More]
London – Gerry Farrell and Edward Horswell of Sladmore Gallery London (www.sladmore.com) love the quirky appeal of the contemporary sculptures created by EDOUARD MARTINET (Le Mans, France b. 1963) from “found” objects he collects from second-hand markets, garage sales and car-boot events. [Read More]
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, an exhibition of photographs, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by contemporary artists who invent humanlike, animal or hybrid creatures to symbolize life’s mysteries, desires and fears, on [Read More]
ArteEast announce the release of the Spring 2012 edition of ArteEast Quarterly, an online publication that offers readers a critical forum for contemporary artistic practices in the Middle East, North Africa and their diaspora. Consisting of 3 sections—ArteZine, Shahadat and Gallery—ArteEast Quarterly [Read More]
The Museum Morsbroich presents Michael Schmidt. Lebensmittel on view through 13 May 2012. Michael Schmidt, “Untitled, # 22,” from: “Lebensmittel,” 2006–2010. Photography, 54,1 x 81,8 cm. © Michael Schmidt From 2006 to 2010, Michael Schmidt travelled the continent of Europe photographing the [Read More]
The Pavilion of Turkey at the Venice Biennale will be coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with the contribution of the Promotion Fund of the Turkish Prime Ministry, and sponsored by Fiat in 2013, as it was in [Read More]