First held in 1940, Colombia’s longest-running and best-known platform for contemporary art, the National Salon of Artists, presents its 43rd edition (SNA43) in the city of Medellín from Friday, September 6 to November 3, 2013. Saber Desconocer (To Know Not To Know) [Read More]
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The 2013 edition of the Contemporary Art Festival celebrates an important moment in the history of the biennial show. It is the three-decade anniversary of Brazil’s sole international contemporary festival whose platform combines exhibitions, public activities and awards. As in past editions, [Read More]
The World of Art Showcase (WOAS) (http://www.worldofartshowcase.com), an international art show dedicated to exhibiting talented artists and creating a community where artists have direct access to their market, has announced that The Scott-Free Scholarship Foundation (http://www.scott-free.org) will be the beneficiary for the [Read More]
Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival 2013: With Songdo : Remembrance· Marks·People on September 14–October 13, 2013. Sea Art Festival was first held in 1987 as the cultural event of the Pre-Olympics for the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and was held annually until 1993. [Read More]
Belgian artist Vera L.P. Cauwenberghs’ slice-of-life oil paintings explore people, nature studies, and landscapes of the earth and sky, all with the same exuberance and attention to detail. Cauwenberghs’ genius is to flit effortlessly between interior and exterior, small objects and sprawling [Read More]
Boisterously beautiful and alluringly abstract, the paintings of French artist Joelle Lagier are impressive in their bold verve. Large sweeps of rich primary colors grace fields of dark tones, dripping and swirling in an intriguing, organic painterly pattern. Tempting figuration in her [Read More]
Project Hermès is a site-specific installation in a vacant house in La Jolla, California based on transcribed conversations between Eloisa Haudenschild in La Jolla and Mark Bradford in Los Angeles that took place from January to July 2013. From Haudenschild were stories [Read More]
Working with a variety of styles, media and techniques, Canadian artist Guy St-Pierre presents paintings inspired by the subjects of the European masters, infused with a contemporary flourish. Primarily self-taught, St-Pierre blends graphic aesthetics and new media practices with the traditional tenets [Read More]
California-based artist Jane Magarigal creates incredibly complex and dynamic compositions of swirling abstract forms using the often overlooked medium of scratchboard, which gives her works added sharpness and texture. Created by cutting into layers of ink applied to a sheet of clay, [Read More]
Smoothly articulating his acrylic paintings in vivacious primary colors, Chilean-born artist Guillermo Del Valle depicts the mystery in everyday life. Almost surrealistic in aesthetic and theme, Del Valle creates a world populated with the ghosts of people. His works emanating a palpable [Read More]
Fogo Island Arts present Fogo Island Dialogues: Belonging to a Place open 19–21 July 2013. Islands have long been considered laboratories for the study of evolution. Their restricted scale, isolation, and clear boundaries create unique selective pressures. As such, the requirements to [Read More]
West Bund 2013 ia an emerging Biennale that combines experimental architecture with contemporary art, West Bund 2013 is Asia’s first international, interdisciplinary avant-garde art exhibition. We will invite over a hundred architects and artists of international renown to create an avant-garde architectural [Read More]
2013–2014 Unsolicited Proposal Program (NYC) winners: Martin Waldmeier: Death of a Cameraman, on view at apexart September 2013 Ceren Erdem, Jaime Schwartz, and Lisa Williams: Private Matters, on view at apexart January 2014 Avi Lubin: The Hidden Passengers, on view at apexart [Read More]
New York: There is good news for all early-career, professional artists who need a financial helping hand. Making a recent announcement about the trail-blazing goal of The Clark Hulings Fund For Burgeoning Visual Artists was Elizabeth Hulings, daughter of its namesake, Clark [Read More]