The Hugo Boss Prize 2012 has been awarded to Danh Vo, announced Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Claus-Dietrich Lahrs, Chairman and CEO, HUGO BOSS AG. Vo is the ninth artist to receive the biennial honor that was [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Sandro Pezzi’s digital photo collages combine the untouchable with the tantalizing, pairing closely-framed flesh with panoramas of brilliant but indifferent cityscapes, fields, and sky. His figures are warm, approachable and unthreatening, but they inhabit indefinable dreamscapes in which shadows can be negative [Read More]
Brigitte Halewitsch, who was born 1940 in Ostrava/CSR, and attended the Academy of Arts in Saarbrücken, uses etching and photographs to create her art. By personal as well as professional experience as psychoanalyst she is deeply convinced that crisis management is a [Read More]
The American Photographic Artists has elected their new officers that will all take office in calendar year 2013, in a meeting in New York City on Sunday, October 28th, 2012. “It’s quite an honor to have been elected by my fellow photographers [Read More]
Jewish Museum presents Ori Gersht. Two Videos, an installation in the Museum’s Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center on view through through March 24, 2013. Ori Gersht, Dew, 2001, digital video, 3 min., 17 sec. The Jewish Museum: Purchase: The Andrea [Read More]
The International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana is delighted to announce the appointment of Deborah Cullen as a curator of the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. The jubilee Biennial will take place from 14 September to 24 November 2013. [Read More]
TheLos Angeles County Museum of Art presents Mapplethorpe. XYZ an exhibition of three portfolios created by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). On view October 21, 2012–March 24, 2013. Robert Mapplethorpe Cedric, N.Y.C., 1978, from X Portfolio, gelatin silver print, jointly acquired by [Read More]
The Paris Photo Platform will take place at the Grand Palais in Paris from Thursday 15 November to Sunday 18 November. Structured as an experimental platform for critical exchanges, performances, and interactions, the Platform engages in dynamic presentations about the expanded field [Read More]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt opens Gustave Caillebotte An Impressionist and Photography, an exhibition on view October 18, 2012–January 20, 2013. Gustave Caillebotte, Raboteurs de parquet (Floor Scrapers), 1875. Oil on canvas, 102 x 145 cm. © Paris, Musée d’Orsay, gift of the heirs [Read More]
The Commissioner of the Russian Pavilion, Stella Kesaeva, announced the appointment of the curator of the Pavilion for the 55th Venice Biennale. The curator of the Russian Pavilion will be Udo Kittelmann, Director of the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (State Museums [Read More]
Throughout history, follies have been used widely in architecture, visual arts, and literature as a provocation, a frivolous diversion or strategic place of madness and satire freed from the constraints of societal norms. Follies have been employed as a critical medium or [Read More]
Phoenix Art Museum presents The Big Picture, a special installation of large-scale photography from Phoenix Art Museum’s collection, on view through December 2012. These 15 large-scale photographs, some measuring as big as five feet by seven-and-a-half feet, represent trends in large scale [Read More]
This year the highly renowned award—bestowed “for outstanding achievements in the field of architecture and the arts that conform to Frederick Kiesler’s experimental, innovative conceptions and his theory of correlated arts”—will be presented by the Vienna City Councillor for Cultural Affairs, Andreas [Read More]
Brooklyn, NY – You take your kids to an art exhibit, and they squirm, get bored in 3 minutes and want to leave– or not. Maybe your kids are the ones dragging you into museums. Philomena Marano, Swingin’ Stationary, cut paper collage, [Read More]