Fine Art News

Encuentro Internacional de Medellín (MDE11) – To Teach and To Learn. Places of Knowledge in Art. September 1–December 10, 2011 The focal point of the Encuentro Internacional de Medellín (MDE11) centers on the different ways of shaping and creating knowledge within art, [Read More]

Viewpoint: 2011 CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition,open September 9–November 6, 2011, commemorates the eighth annual exhibition dedicated to the foundation’s grants programs at the CIFO Art Space. The emerging artists selected as recipients of CIFO’s 2011 grants are: Laura Belém (Brazil), [Read More]

On June 2, 2012 the ninth edition of Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will open its doors in Genk, Province of Limburg, Belgium. The exhibition will be open for 120 days, from June 2 until September 30, 2012. Former coal [Read More]

ART HK 12, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, will take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 17–20 May 2012. In just four years ART HK has emerged as the leading art fair in Asia, and is fast becoming a [Read More]

Poppy Sebire presents an exhibition of work by Tom Dale on view 2 September – 1 October 2011. For his inaugural exhibition with Poppy Sebire, Tom Dale presents a sculptural series of stunt ramps gone horribly wrong. Setting forth recurring themes in [Read More]

Paris Tableau a new international art fair dedicated to Old Master paintings, is being held from 4 to 8 November 2011 at the Palais de la Bourse, Paris. The fair will feature three paintings loaned by Jeff Koons. Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Jupiter [Read More]

SALT presents Becoming Istanbul, 90 and The Making Of Beyoğlu, 13 September–31 December 2011. Arif Özden SALT Beyoğlu’s second comprehensive exhibition Becoming Istanbul, accompanied by parallel programs 90 and The Making Of Beyoğlu, will open September 13, 2011. Turkey’s aim to find [Read More]

Drawing Room presents The Peripatetic School: Itinerant drawing from Latin America, 22 September–12 November 2011. Private view: 21 September, 6–8pm. This group of artists from across Latin America share an engagement with the landscape, whether urban or rural. More specifically, they are [Read More]

The “Contemporary Mexican Cinema” cycle is programmed in collaboration with the MAPFRE Foundation’s 4+1 Festival, which has created a circuit of five cities for screening auteur movies to have participated at international festivals but not yet released in commercial cinemas. Its venues [Read More]

The Kunstmuseum Basel presents Max Beckmann. The Landscapes on view 09.04.2011–01.22.2012. Max Beckmann, Riviera-Landschaft, 1942, Oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York) is one of the titans of modernism, even though he saw himself as the [Read More]

Malmo Konsthall presents Misaki Kawai Big Bubble on view 10 September–27 November 2011. The Japanese artist Misaki Kawai (b. 1978) works with painting, drawing, sculpture, installations and artists’ books. Her works are filled with colourful characters that appear to come from the [Read More]

This display, on view 17 August 2011 – 18 March 2012, marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Dobson (1611-46), described by the antiquary John Aubrey as ‘the most excellent painter that England hath yet bred’. His career was tragically [Read More]

The Museum Of Russian Icons has extended it’s exhibition “Exploring Sanctity: Paths to Sainthood Unveiled” until October 1. The new exhibition showcases twenty-four icons in the Museum of Russian Icons collection that illustrate the unique and iconoclastic journeys of ordinary people to [Read More]

The anniversary issue celebrates the past and the future. For the 20th anniversary issue frieze asked 20 artists whose work has been on the cover of frieze to nominate a contemporary artist whose work inspires them. Artists, including Doug Aitken, Charles Atlas, [Read More]