Fine Art News

Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to contemporary visual art exhibitions, has named Cosmin Costinas as its new Executive Director/Curator, effective immediately. Mr. Costinas will relocate from his base in the Netherlands in autumn 2011. A writer and critic [Read More]

Caroline Kerrigan Lerch was named Show Director for the Metropolitan Show, it was announced by Mark Lyman, President of the Art Fair Company. The inaugural fair, which debuts January 18-22, 2012, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, at 125 West 18th Street in Chelsea, [Read More]

Art Basel Miami Beach takes place December 1 – 4, 2011. An exclusive selection of more than 250 leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa will exhibit 20th and 21st century artworks by over 2,000 artists. The [Read More]

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Israeli artist, Tsipi Shaish, in Elements of Abstraction. The exhibition is scheduled to run from June 30, 2011 through July 21, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, July 07, 2011). About the Artist Tsipi Shaish’s large-scale paintings are made [Read More]

Some Special Features: Gigapixel Photography and Archival Videos; More Than Twenty Artists Showcased; First Issue of Quarterly Edition – Artists Highlighted in Edition #1: John Chamberlain, John Currin, Vera Lutter, Kazimir Malevich, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Prince, and Rudolf Stingel Gagosian [Read More]

Emel Michael and Emrah Kaleli, two emerging artists practicing differing styles, bring together a Mish Mash of unusual works. Though originating from different cultural backgrounds, both artists tell their tales through the medium of painting, applying within their works mixed themes of [Read More]

REDCAT presents the first solo exhibition in the U.S. by Dublin-based artist Jesse Jones. Exhibition on view July 1–August 28, 2011. Opening: Thursday, June 30 | 6–9pm Artist talk in conversation with Andrea Bowers | 6:30pm Jones’ recent body of work focuses [Read More]

The second edition of the modern and the contemporary Marrakech Art Fair takes place at the Palace Es Saadi from September 30th to October 3rd 2011, with more than fourteen international galleries. As last year, the organizers Hicham and Zineb Daoudi have [Read More]

Tate Britain presents a major exhibition about Vorticism (1914-18), one of the truly avant-garde movements in British history. Led by painter Wyndham Lewis and named by American poet Ezra Pound, the revolutionary Vorticist artists reacted against the culture of Edwardian England with [Read More]

Hit+Run & Townhouse Gallery present a solo show by Los Angeles native and highly prolific street artist CRYPTIK opening June 16,2011. CRYPTIK’S works utilizes his traditional imagery – Buddha, Ganesha, Gandhi, Palm and CRYPTIK’S iconic logo in various ways. The works, which [Read More]

Identities are constantly in a state of construction and deconstruction. While representation through the image of the body and identity permeates art history, it’s nothing new in itself. Except that, at the beginning of the 21st century, in the context of postmodern [Read More]

Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich presents an exhibition of important early works by Robert Indiana, all executed in 1959. The exhibition is on view until view until September 30, 2011. This series of work on plywood, homasote and a single canvas was made [Read More]

Von Lintel Gallery presents Driven to Abstraction a group show of eight contemporary abstract artists who represent a diverse range of entry points into abstraction, on view June 9 – July 23, 2011. Andrea Belag, Shift, 2011, oil on linen, 22 x [Read More]

“Taking the Stage OVER” is a dynamic, year-long exhibition that attempts through series of events, situations, and happenings to activate an important chapter in the history of contemporary art of the last decade. The artists featured in this year-long ongoing exhibition will [Read More]