Brooklyn, NY – They say great things come in small packages. As 440 Gallery presents its Eighth Annual Small Works Show this December, this adage may just prove true. The artwork on the gallery walls, each piece no larger than 12″, represents [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Vancouver Art Gallery presents Ian Wallace. At the Intersection of Painting and Photography, on view through February 24, 2013. Ian Wallace Lookout, 1979 (detail) hand-coloured silver gelatin prints Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisition Fund Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of [Read More]
During RijksakademieOPEN 2012, on 1 and 2 December, 56 artists present their work and offer a view on the future of art. The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten offers emerging artists from all over the world the possibility to focus on further developing [Read More]
Artes Mundi 5, Britain’s largest visual arts prize, continues to explore an exciting range of distinctive practices drawn from a community of international contemporary artists. Within this year’s shortlist, there are threads of commonality but also divergences in form, narrative and conceptual [Read More]
For a decade now, Art Basel Conversations has offered the public a chance to see dynamic dialogues between prominent figures of the international art world, offering their firsthand perspective on producing, collecting and exhibiting art—and debating the key issues facing the art [Read More]
India’s first biennale, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, is open 12 December, 2012–13 March, 2013. The three-month-long exhibition and cultural programme, the largest contemporary art event in the country, will take place across a string of venues in the Fort Kochi area. Aspinwall House, Fort [Read More]
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation announces daily programming during Art Basel Miami Beach 2012, open December 5–9, 2012. Activities during the tenth-anniversary celebration include daily breakfasts, an exhibition opening, curatorial talks, guided tour, and a book launch. Tatiana Blass, Metade da fala [Read More]
Relief 2.0, an organic movement of volunteers and organizations to promote efficient disaster response and sustainable disaster recovery will be running Relief 2.0 – Tohoku: Road to Recovery — a photo and photography exhibit. Paintings, photos and handicrafts will be for sale [Read More]
Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center presents Annie Leibovitz. Pilgrimage Photography Exhibition on display through January 20, 2013. The exhibition features more than 70 photographs, includes 2 images from Gettysburg. Annie Leibovitz Jacob Lott’s farm, East Cavalry Field, Gettysburg National [Read More]
Denver Art Museum presents Laura Letinsky. Still Life Photographs, 1997–2012, an exhibition on view October 28, 2012, through March 24, 2013. Laura Letinsky, Untitled #49, from the series hardly More Than Ever, 2002. © Laura Letinsky, Courtesy of the artist and the [Read More]
With the coming of the post-media or post-conceptual age, artists have become more concerned with creating new narrative structures for their stories, whether real or imaginary, and for their experiences, whether major or minor. The starting point is no longer the matter [Read More]
Paris Photo, Europe’s most celebrated art fair for works created in the photographic medium, launches in Los Angeles, California on April 25 – 28, 2013. A selection of 80 international galleries to come together at the historic Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. [Read More]
“Inventing the World” is the modest theme of the first official edition of the Biennale Regard Benin, which had informally premiered in June 2010 on the 50th Anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Benin. The first billboards in Cotonou announcing the [Read More]
Valentina Chiappini sees what she refers to as the “scratch” as her artistic signature. Using blades on her canvases lets her paint in what she calls a “nervous” style, adding a level of energy to her works that enhances their appeal to [Read More]