Fine Art News

Lisson Gallery presents a major survey show of work by Ai Weiwei to be held across both Bell Street spaces, London. The broad selection of key works from the past six years was agreed with the artist at the beginning of 2011. [Read More]

For the first time in three years, The Merton D. Simpson Gallery, located at 38 West 28th Street, will be officially open to the public from May 17-June 30, 2011, with Encore!, a Merton D. Simpson tribute exhibition. Encore!, a passion project [Read More]

Mark Lyman, president of The Art Fair Company, producer of the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (SOFA) Fairs in Chicago, New York and Santa Fe, NM, today announces that The Art Fair Company is now accepting proposals for the second recipient of [Read More]

S.M.A.K. Presents TRACK on view through 16 September 2012 in Ghent, Belgium. 1. A city has no boundaries. 2. Art has no boundaries. 3. TRACK has no boundaries. 4. TRACK is an exhibition that serves as a tool with which to act, [Read More]

Agora Gallery is proud to be the sponsor of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, a prestigious annual fine art contest which generally takes entries in February and March. Art competitions can be very valuable to artists who are seeking to establish [Read More]

Tamara Kvesitadze’s reflection on visual art surpasses any medium-specific category. The way she is dealing with various media can be described most aptly by the term “whatever,” in the positive sense of “being such that it always matters.” One could indeed argue [Read More]

For the 54th Venice Biennale, the Danish Pavilion will host an international group exhibition, curated by Katerina Gregos, which will explore the very timely and complex issue of freedom of speech. The question of freedom of speech is one that is being [Read More]

Von Lintel Gallerypresents its fourth exhibition of new paintings by Australian artist Tim Maguire. On view through June 4, 2011. Tim Maguire’s large canvases are full of lush plant life—tightly cropped angles of multi-colored poppies in various stages of bloom and decay. [Read More]

Office for Contemporary Art Norway presents ‘The State of Things’ at the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia on 1 June–17 November 2011. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), as commissioner of Norway’s representation at the 54th Biennale di [Read More]

Art is the attempt to mend a bereavement, the loss of completeness and the descent into a partial and fragmentary world. In this regard, creation is the development and healing process of the artist who uses form as the crystal-clear evidence of [Read More]

Announcing Open to the Elements, an intensive week-long research and design residency presented by Headlands Center for the Arts for those who are and would like to be architects, philosophers, environmental designers, artists, and ecologists. Headlands’ urban wilderness, situated in a military [Read More]

The sixth annual artLA, the original Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair, will be staged at a breathtaking new location at the J.W.Marriott Ritz Carlton in Downtown Los Angeles. artLA, the original Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair, showcases innovative work from [Read More]

Ctrl+Z Publishing and Gallery USF, Bergen present “We Who Feel Differently” (wewhofeeldifferently.info) a new database documentary, book, and online journal by artist Carlos Motta. …People are not provoked by those who are different. What is more provoking is our insecurity: When you [Read More]

Three special art events will take place in June 2011. Shortly after the opening of the Venice Biennale on the 4th of June, the major survey exhibition based in Berlin will begin on June 8th in various locations throughout Berlin, followed by [Read More]