Fine Art News

Under Destruction is a group exhibition featuring 20 internationally renowned contemporary artists that examine the use and role of destruction in today’s art. On view through August 7, 2011. Liz Larner, “Corner Basher,” 1988. Courtesy Private Collection. Fifty-one years after Swiss artist [Read More]

Art Platform—Los Angeles, the modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles, set to launch September 30th for invited guests, will present outstanding work by the region’s most innovative artists and will place emphasis on Los Angeles as a site of historical [Read More]

On Sunday, October 2, 2011 the streets of downtown Los Angeles will erupt in a parade of local artists and residents, complete with music, dancing and performance. The parade is the culmination of Trespass, a collaborative project between Arto Lindsay, Rirkrit Tiravanija, [Read More]

François Ghebaly Gallery and M+B announce The New Verisimilitude, a two-part group exhibition across both gallery spaces, curated by François Ghebaly. This exhibition explores new approaches to realism in the contemporary practices of ten artists working in different mediums (painting, sculpture, video, [Read More]

“The spirit of that conception, astray in the atmosphere haunted him. He proclaimed a republic of dreams, the sovereign territory of poetry… ” —Bruno Schulz (The Republic of Dreams) CRAC Alsace presents POUR UNE RÉPUBLIQUE DES RÊVES (For a Republic of Dreams) [Read More]

Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) presents Proto Anime Cut – Spaces and visions in Japanese animation, on view 9 July–9 October 2011. Opening: Friday, 8 July 2011, 18:00. With works by: Hideaki Anno (JP), Haruhiko Higami (JP), Koji Morimoto (JP), Hiromasa Ogura (JP), Mamoru [Read More]

ARCOmadrid, holding its 31st edition from 15–19 February 2012, will present again its SOLO PROJECTS: FOCUS LATIN AMERICA programme. This year the section will work more than ever as a space showcasing the most recent Latin American creation. To do that we [Read More]

The 38th edition of FIAC will take place from October 20th to October 23rd 2011 (Private view: October 19th) in the Grand Palais. The nave will house galleries specializing in modern, contemporary-modern and contemporary art. The upper galleries will likewise host galleries [Read More]

Francisco Tropa is Portugal’s representative at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The artist whose work occupies the Portuguese Pavilion at the upcoming Biennale was selected by Sérgio Mah, named curator of this official representation at the behest [Read More]

The second edition of Actors, Agents and Attendants, a series of symposia by SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain Social Housing–Housing the Social is a two-day symposium in Amsterdam, November 4–5, 2011, that emphasizes the relationship between the waning political [Read More]

The artist Tom Humphreys presents a group show at Portikus that takes a very personal look back at the exhibition space Flaca he organized at his London home between 2003 and 2007, and reflects on his own artistic position within this structure. [Read More]

19 international artists have created new works for the Folkestone Triennial 2011, which takes place from 25 June–25 September 2011. The Folkestone Triennial is one of the most ambitious public art projects ever to be presented in the UK. The selected artists [Read More]

n celebration of their fifteenth anniversary, Cheim & Read Present The Women in Our Life: a group exhibition of the women artists with whom they work: Ghada Amer, Diane Arbus, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Jenny Holzer, Chantal Joffe, Joan Mitchell, [Read More]

For the second year, Legacy Trust and VSA Michigan-Grand Rapids have co-sponsored a statewide spring art competition for adult artists with disabilities in an effort to bring their voices and vision to ArtPrize. Winners Josh Andrus and Michael Johnson will showcase their [Read More]