AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries combined with The Boston Print Fair takes place March 21-24, 2013, at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts in Boston’s South End. AD20/21 features 36 galleries specializing in modern [Read More]
Fine Art News
Performa announce Get Ready for the Marvelous: Black Surrealism in Dakar, Fort-de-France, Havana, Johannesburg, New York City, Paris, Port-au-Prince, 1932–2013, a groundbreaking conference exploring historical Surrealism in the African Diaspora and its relevance to contemporary art. The conference will elaborate on the [Read More]
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announce that its February 2013 online art exhibition is now posted on their website and is ready to view online. Jupiter, Florida, USA – February 1, 2013 — Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery [Read More]
The 28th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition – Begins on February 12, 2013! Here’s what several of the 2012 selected competition artists raved about: “As a New Yorker I was impressed by the truly international nature of the show, and by the [Read More]
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – It was an elegantly simple but universally embraced paper container – the cone-shape Dixie Cup – that enabled millionaire inventor and philanthropist Cesare Barbieri to amass the spectacular collection of European paintings, bronzes, Asian art and Oriental rugs [Read More]
Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia announce that artist Dénes Farkas will represent Estonia at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia with his project Evident in Advance, curated by Adam Budak, on June 1–November 24, 2013. Farkas’s post-conceptual photo-based practice [Read More]
The artist residencies awarded at the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil involving artists and institutions from the North and South Hemispheres have been underway since the second half of 2012. Following the residencies undertaken by Carla Zaccagnini, Dirceu Maués, and Claudia [Read More]
Baltimore—In 2002, philanthropists Eddie and C. Sylvia Brown created The Brown Challenge Grant, donating $500,000 to the Walters Art Museum, to be matched by the museum, creating a $1 million fund for the purchase of art by 18th-, 19th- and early 20th-century [Read More]
With a calmly cool, tranquil color palette and meticulous, controlled brushstrokes, Belgian-born artist Max Werner blends realism with a mystical romanticism. Max Werner-Early Morning Round Up Planes of richly crystalline color meet detailed textures in these works, each one an image of [Read More]
Australian painter Michael Cowdroy eschews the broad vistas and minimal color palettes of many of his compatriots’ landscape paintings, but his small-town streetscapes retain the same sense of sharpness in the air and intensity of light. Michael Cowdroy-Mansell Street Working with delicate [Read More]
Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents Lara Almarcegui on 1 June–24 November 2013 Preview: 29–31 May 2013. Lara Almarcegui to represent Spain at the 55th Venice Biennale Octavio Zaya was appointed curator of the Spanish Pavilion by the Spanish Agency for [Read More]
The large canvases of Patricia Masciotra embrace the true connotation of “home.” The joyful, loving sanctuary that belonged to the artist as a child translates itself now into a mature investigation of the scientific, concrete aspects of this elusive concept. Patricia Masciotra-Levels [Read More]
“The exhibition by ‘art place berlin’ also shows Kaasiks latest works, the most radical abstractions within his oeuvre so far. In mostly large-scale oil paintings the notions of the artificial and the natural are blurring. They seem like a tribute to artists [Read More]
Creative New Zealand announced today the launch of their website for sculptor, photographer and installation artist Bill Culbert’s exhibition as part of the New Zealand Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. Featuring the latest news on Culbert’s Venice exhibition, with regular blogs [Read More]