Portland Art Museum presents Cyclepedia an exhibition on view June 8 – September 8, 2013. Drawn from the collection of Vienna-based designer and bike aficionado Michael Embacher, this special exhibition features some 40 bicycles, each chosen by Embacher as examples of pivotal [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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In recent years the concept of resilience has grown out of the global trend of developing sustainability in the societies of the global North. In natural sciences or physics, a resilient body is described as flexible, durable, and capable of springing back [Read More]
Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve presents a retrospective of work by Gianni Piacentino, one of the most inventive Italian artists of the second half of the 20th century. Initially associated with the Arte Povera movement, he went on to develop a vocabulary of [Read More]
Here’s a new definition for “art on the move.” The “T-Guardian” sculpture, designed by artists Christoph Luckeneder and Manfred Kielnhofer, currently on a global tour of the world’s museums and exhibition spaces, has made its way to Venice for La Biennale—and it’s [Read More]
The Art Institute of Chicago presents Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door an exhibition on view from June 1 through September 2, 2013. Over the course of the past 25 years, Cuban-born American artist Abelardo Morell has become internationally renowned for works [Read More]
The Dallas Museum of Art announced the acquisition of a major work of postmodernism, the Miss Blanche armchair by Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata (1934–1991). An integral addition to the Museum’s decorative arts and design collection, the chair’s acquisition honors outgoing DMA Board [Read More]
Fotohof Salzburg presentss Annelies Oberdanner / Ingeborg Strobl an exhibition on view through 13 July 2013. Annelies Oberdanner and Ingeborg Strobl do not regard themselves as photographers in the traditional sense; rather, they are both visual artists with an oeuvre spanning multiple [Read More]
Laura Rathe Fine Art will present a dynamic exhibition of current and past works by notable contemporary photographer, George Krause, with an artist reception on Saturday, July 13th from 6-9pm. That evening, as part of the opening night to his exhibition, patrons [Read More]
Fine art photographer Steve Giovinco will discuss photographing on the rugged, breathtaking coast of remote Newfoundland, Canada in moonlight, or in a strangely quiet Beijing Park at dawn – without looking through the camera at all. The results are surprising, stunning, beautiful [Read More]
Gasworks presents the exhibition RESOLUTION 978 HD by Model Court, an ongoing collaboration between London-based artists and researchers Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Lorenzo Pezzani and Oliver Rees, whose practice explores the shifting infrastructures of international justice. Until 7 July 2013. [Read More]
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art presents Giorgio Casali Photographer Domus 1951-1983 Architecture, Design and Art in Italy an exhibition on view through 8 September 2013. For over thirty years, Giorgio Casali (1913-1995) photographed the work of the greatest post-war Italian [Read More]
Brooklyn, NY — While activists, politicians, and scientists promote being green and sustainable, and argue about fracking and climate change, 440 Gallery hosts Earth, a group exhibition for artists to present their side of the story. A vast landscape, the fragile environment, [Read More]
Friedman Benda presents Campana Brothers: Concepts an exhibition on view June 5-July 3, 2013. The exhibition will introduce several new bodies of work that demonstrate a different direction for the brothers, while offering a complex and in-progress view of their practice as [Read More]
London Art Week is an exciting joint venture that unites Master Paintings Week and Master Drawings and Sculpture Week (formerly Master Drawings London). The new collaboration will provide a coherent platform, sharing advertising and creating a new online portal through which the [Read More]