The shortlist for the sixth Artes Mundi Prize was announced by Karen Mackinnon, Artes Mundi’s Director & Curator. It includes outstanding artists from eight countries: Carlos Bunga (Portugal), Karen Mirza and Brad Butler (UK), Omer Fast (Israel), Theaster Gates (USA), Sanja Iveković […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Brooklyn, NY – They say great things come in small packages. As 440 Gallery presents its Ninth Annual Small Works Show this December, this adage may just prove true. The 80 pieces of artwork in the gallery, each piece no larger than […]
For years, online customers of fine art, antiques and collectibles have had to take a fingers-crossed, hope-for-the-best attitude when they clicked the BUY button, only half-trusting that what they paid for was the real McCoy and genuinely worth the price. Now, there’s […]
n 2014, Art Dubai’s Marker programme is curated by the artists Slavs and Tatars and takes Central Asia and the Caucasus as its focus. Celebrating the complexities of faith, identity and language in these regions, Marker 2014 includes booth exhibitions, educational initiatives […]
The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten is a renowned international residency program based in Amsterdam. We offer outstanding opportunities for talented artists from the Netherlands and abroad to develop their work at the highest level. Resident artists work in an individual studio surrounded […]
From 17 December 2013, at January 9, 2014 Matilde Calamai exhibits her works at the Agora Gallery in Chelsea, in New York at an exhibition titled “The Odyssey Within”. Italian artist Matilde Calamai creates abstract visions as compelling as they are mysterious. […]
Miguel Pineiro, a hyperrealist painter, uses acrylics and other media to achieve a level of detail and realism that is truly extraordinary. Most of his work has two components – a background panel and a foreground panel – to create a three-dimensional […]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents David Hockney: Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos, 2011 on view through January 20, 2014. David Hockney: Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos, 2011 introduces to American audiences Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos (2011, total duration of 12 minutes, […]
Oscillating between a thoroughly meticulous technique and fluid, ethereal abstraction, Italian painter Roberto Del Fabbro draws from his dreams. His compositions structured yet organic, the artist conjures illusory images that are as natural as they are imagined. His palette is limitless, dexterously […]
Italian artist Sergio Boldrin paints with oils on canvas to create elongated abstract paintings of jesters juxtaposed with the architecture of his home city, Venice. Boldrin is driven to depict and denounce the cultural and social decline of Venice through his art. […]
The National Gallery of Canada presents Michel Campeau: Icons of Obsolescence an exhibition on view through 05 Jan 2014. In this exhibition, Campeau—poet, archeologist, and photo-documenter—presents the quickly disappearing world of analog photography through its obsolescent remains: darkrooms and their paraphernalia, film […]
The exuberant abstract work of Shireen Mussa is at once playful and highly conceptual. Mussa’s paintings, done in oil on canvas and linen, use pure color as their subject. Bright teals, yellows, and crimsons take shape as closed, organic-looking dollops and dance […]
As she blurs the divide between inner and outer realities, the Iranian artist Masoome Moradkhani known as Masi distills a darkly atmospheric and dreamlike vision of a life without borders. Within Masi’s surreal and abstracted landscapes of the soul linger the influences […]
Lili creates high-impact abstract acrylic and collage paintings that immediately impress the viewer. Loose black lines sweep gracefully atop bold color, drawing the eye around each piece; the artist prefers to work on a large scale to maximize the effect of her […]