This year Gwangju celebrates the freedom of creativity with the second edition of art:gwangju:11. Open 1-4 September 2011. The Fair is the first public cultural project of the newly established Gwangju Cultural Foundation and is supported by Gwangju Metropolitan City Council. With [Read More]
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Bonniers Konsthall presents The Spiral and the Square. Exercises in Translatability on view 24 August 2011–8 January 2012. What happens in translations between cultures, between languages, between a viewer and an artwork? In The Spiral and the Square, the works are varied [Read More]
The Aspen Art Museum has held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new location on Tuesday, Aug. 16. “Construction of the 30,000-square-foot Shigeru Ban-designed art museum will begin early next year. So far, the art museum has raised $45.7 in capital campaign funds [Read More]
Visual artist Benjamin Grosser has developed an “Interactive Robotic Painting Machine” that lets the sounds of its environment be its canvas maneuvering guide. Benjamin Grosser, Interactive Robotic Painting Machine (2011) installation computers, robotics, camera, microphone, mixer, speakers, projector, oil paint, canvas, and [Read More]
The Colomb Art Gallery, London and York Fine Arts are proud to announce their participation in this year’s Newcastle Gateshead Art Fair 2011. For the first time, both galleries will be exhibiting side by side with a superb selection of original paintings [Read More]
A major retrospective is to be devoted to the world-famous Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849). Perhaps his best-known picture is the woodcut: “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” from the series: “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (1823–29). Over 350 loans, which with few exceptions [Read More]
Each year, the Ars Electronica Festival showcases the work of a featured artist. This year, it’s Sam Auinger (AT/DE). Since the 1980s, the Linz native has been working in computer music, sound design and psychoacoustics, fields in which he has been doing [Read More]
On September 23, the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art opens its fourth edition. Titled “Rewriting Worlds,” the Biennale will run until October 30. The main exhibition features 64 individual artists and 16 groups of artists from 33 countries, and is curated by [Read More]
FLOW will deliver an exciting series of new site specific artworks that explore and respond to the journey of water through the county focusing on different aspects of the county’s waterways, from its major canals and rivers, to its iconic water towers [Read More]
From September 9 to 11, 2011, for the seventh time, PREVIEW BERLIN – The Emerging Art Fair will be offering young national and international galleries and project spaces the opportunity to present works by a new generation of emerging artists to a [Read More]
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art announce the acquisition of The Mysterious Garden (1911) by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1865-1933). This stunning work is a superb addition to the Gallery’s holding of early twentieth-century Scottish art. The acquisition has been made in [Read More]
The New York-based arts group, 4heads, is pleased to present the Fourth Annual Governors Island Art Fair, which will be free and open to the public September 2 – 25, 2011 on Fridays from 11am to 4pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art announced that the exhibition Art in the Streets, presented in the first year of MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch’s tenure at the museum, attracted 201,352 visitors from April 17–August 8, 2011, marking the highest exhibition attendance in the [Read More]
Moniker Art Fair will be expanding its 2011 programme to include galleries such as Scream London, who will showcase the iconic art of Andy Warhol alongside LA neo-pop artist, Greg Miller at the fair. Other artists exhibiting include the up and coming [Read More]