The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Jack Spencer: Beyond the Surface a photographs exhibition on view through Oct. 13, 2013. For more than twenty years, Nashville, Tennessee, photographer Jack Spencer (b. 1951) has created a world of shadow and light, theme and variation, beauty and intrigue. His use of rich, subtle tones, evocative […]
Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents Un/Natural Color, an exhibition of color photography on view through September 29, 2013. This exhibition looks at the powerful relationship between color and memory by considering photographs and the ways in which their unique color palettes evoke specific moments of the historical past. From the pastel hues of 19th-century […]
First held in 1940, Colombia’s longest-running and best-known platform for contemporary art, the National Salon of Artists, presents its 43rd edition (SNA43) in the city of Medellín from Friday, September 6 to November 3, 2013. Saber Desconocer (To Know Not To Know) features approximately100 installations, sculptures, videos, audio works, photographs and paintings by as many […]
The 2013 edition of the Contemporary Art Festival celebrates an important moment in the history of the biennial show. It is the three-decade anniversary of Brazil’s sole international contemporary festival whose platform combines exhibitions, public activities and awards. As in past editions, a comprehensive show gives voice to art from the Southern scene. Alongside this […]
Ben Uri Museum presents Looking In: Photographic Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae an exhibition on view through 22nd September 2013. This is the first in a series of Ben Uri exhibitions exploring themes of identity and migration in detail and questioning how contemporary visual artists who consider themselves outsiders express personal feelings of […]
MOCA Geffen Contemporary presents A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California an exhibition on view through September 16th. The museum is excited to bring the architecture community in Los Angeles together in recognition of the world-class architecture that has been and continues to be conceived in the city by some of the most renowned […]
Princeton University Art Museum presents Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography an exhibition on view through Sept. 15, 2013. Shared Vision features more than one hundred thirty iconic images that reflect the rich and diverse nature of the past one hundred years of photography. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary […]
After last year’s High Park wildfire in Colorado, which destroyed hundreds of homes, artist Mark Wharton and his wife Leslie found very little left in the ashes of their self-built solar home and studio. Their mountaineering tools were some of the few remains they were able to recover. The Whartons relocated to Bellingham, Washington to […]
The shortlist for the prestigious 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize for the best new building has been announced today (Thursday 18 July). Six exciting and exceptional buildings will now go head to head for architecture’s highest accolade from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist features the vibrant reinvention of […]
The World of Art Showcase (WOAS) (http://www.worldofartshowcase.com), an international art show dedicated to exhibiting talented artists and creating a community where artists have direct access to their market, has announced that The Scott-Free Scholarship Foundation (http://www.scott-free.org) will be the beneficiary for the masquerade-themed VIP opening reception on Thursday, October 31. The event will take place […]
Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival 2013: With Songdo : Remembrance· Marks·People on September 14–October 13, 2013. Sea Art Festival was first held in 1987 as the cultural event of the Pre-Olympics for the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and was held annually until 1993. Following a five-year gap after the 8th Sea Art Festival in 1995, it […]
Belgian artist Vera L.P. Cauwenberghs’ slice-of-life oil paintings explore people, nature studies, and landscapes of the earth and sky, all with the same exuberance and attention to detail. Cauwenberghs’ genius is to flit effortlessly between interior and exterior, small objects and sprawling scenes, and to draw each narrative together with the beating heart within. Her […]
