Christie’s fine art auctioneers will offer an acclaimed masterpiece by Cindy Sherman consigned by the Akron Art Museum, Ohio. All proceeds from the sale will be directed to the museum’s acquisition fund to allow for future strategic purchases that will augment the [Read More]
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Joseph Bellows Gallery presents Nick Veasey From Rocks and Reefs… an exhibition of photographs on view April 21 – June 2, 2012. Nick Veasey Halidrys Siliquosa, 2011 Inspired by the seminal work of one of the pioneers of photography, Anna Atkins, British [Read More]
Reykjavík Arts Festival 2012 announces (I)ndependent People, a large-scale collaborative international visual arts project that will involve many of Reykjavík’s exhibition spaces, museums, galleries, and public spaces during the festival season and throughout the summer. Focusing on contemporary visual art from the [Read More]
National Museum of Norway – Museum of Contemporary Art presents Unfinished Journeys, on view through 20 May 2012. Isaac Julien, “Yishan Island, Voyage (Ten Thousand Waves),” 2011. Courtesy the artist & Victoria Miro Gallery) Ten Thousand Waves, 2011, collection: Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo Unfinished [Read More]
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Sobey Art Foundation are pleased to announce the long list for the 2012 Sobey Art Award, the pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian Art. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Award. Following a [Read More]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents 35mm. Photographs from the Collection, on view through May 27, 2012. Joel Meyerowitz, Mexico City, 1962 (detail), American, born 1938. Chromogenic print, Sheet: 20 1/2 x 25 1/8 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the [Read More]
KM Fine Arts is pleased to announce the opening of PICASSO and BEYOND presenting 28 works from some of the most iconic 20th century artists who were instrumental, or participated in the infamous School of Paris: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, [Read More]
The Museum of the City of New York presents Stories the City Tells Itself. The Video Art and Photography of Neil Goldberg, an exhibition on view through May 28, 2012. Stories the City Tells Itself Subway Trapezoids, 2011-2012 Giclee print Courtesy of [Read More]
On November 8, under the direction of Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Artissima 19 will be inaugurating a far-reaching programme that features an outstanding selection of cutting-edge contemporary art galleries. The Oval pavilion will host top-tier booth presentations by established and emerging galleries from [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art presents Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes” an exhibition on view April 09, 2012. Eugène Atget, Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève, June 1925. Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print, 6 11/16 x 8 3/4″ (17 x 22.2 cm). The Museum of [Read More]
The Aachen Art Prize for 2012 is scheduled to be awarded to British artist Phyllida Barlow. Born in Newcastle in 1944, Phyllida Barlow primarily works with sculpture, her works being characterised by a forceful connection to place. With prize money of 10,000 [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced a generous donation of 25 photographs by acclaimed 20th century photographer Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). A gift of Carol Vernon and her husband Robert Turbin in memory of Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, “The Museum Set” was [Read More]
Wyspa Institute of Art announces Alternativa 2012 a project that seeks diverse modes of knowing and explores possible ways of being and acting in contemporaneity. This year’s programme comprises two exhibitions, entitled respectively Materiality and Wyspa. Now is Now. Aneta Szyłak, the [Read More]
The Hague Museum of Photography presents Pieter Hugo. This must be the place, an exhibition on view 3 March 2012 – 20 May 2012. The South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s (Johannesburg, 1976) monumental photographs, centred around contemporary Africa, are now well known [Read More]