Fine Art News

First held in November 2005, the Marrakech Biennale is the first major trilingual (English, Arabic and French) festival in North Africa focusing on cutting-edge contemporary art, cinema and video, literature, performing arts and architecture. Jurgen Meyer, Satellite, 2012. Photo: Raimar Weinskowski 2012. [Read More]

Brooklyn, NY – An indigo sea, a yellow plain, purple mountains and a salmon sky: the vivid colors and painterly contours of Gail Flanery’s recent monotype prints may bring these landscape images to mind. However, this new body of work, Elements of [Read More]

American artist Helen S. Cohen takes up the thread of Abstract Expressionism in her mixed media compositions. Helen S. Cohen, Echo 1 The scratched marks, diffuse washes, collage elements and broad brushstrokes fleetingly evoke landscapes and figures, but very quickly retrain our [Read More]

Utilizing and expanding the tenants of Abstract Expressionism, American fiber artist Kathleen Barefield uses wool to create objects that exhibit the passions and poeticisms of her own mind. Kathleen Barefield, Rabbit Hole Choosing a material which is naturally intensely textured, Barefield allows [Read More]

Spurred by an innate, passion-fueled desire to create works of art, painter Laura Almerico fuses spiraling, exuberant forms with a vivacious, intoxicating palette. Completely self-taught, Almerico relies on her natural, fanciful understanding of color, technique and composition in order to create harmonic [Read More]

Liverpool Biennial 2012, the largest international contemporary arts festival in the UK, has just finished its successful ten-week run programme of exhibitions, commissions and events involving 242 artists in 27 galleries, museums and different locations across the city. This year’s Biennial was [Read More]

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, India’s first Biennale, presents the work of 94 artists from 23 countries, exhibited in over 60 spaces across 14 sites, in Kochi, Kerala, India, from December 12, 2012 to March 3, 2013. Curators of the inaugural edition; Bose Krishnamachari, [Read More]

ARCOmadrid has started a discussion about art criticism on the internet with our ARCO Bloggers Forum at arcobloggers.com/blog. During the fair, there will be two roundtables to analyse its results in the same venue as the Forum about collecting, which expands to [Read More]

Brooklyn, NY – They say great things come in small packages. As 440 Gallery presents its Eighth Annual Small Works Show this December, this adage may just prove true. The artwork on the gallery walls, each piece no larger than 12″, represents [Read More]

Alfredo Jaar will represent Chile with a major new site-specific installation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Alfredo Jaar (b.1956; Santiago, Chile) is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. With an expansive commitment to art [Read More]

Artists Mahmoud Khaled from Egypt and Claudio Bueno from Brazil are at the final stages of producing their works commissioned by the Videobrasil em Contexto Prize. During three-month residencies in São Paulo and London, they are developing pieces which relate to the [Read More]

Relief 2.0, an organic movement of volunteers and organizations to promote efficient disaster response and sustainable disaster recovery will be running Relief 2.0 – Tohoku: Road to Recovery — a photo and photography exhibit. Paintings, photos and handicrafts will be for sale [Read More]

Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents Mark Manders Room with Broken Sentence, on 1 June–24 November 2013. Preview: 29–31 May 2013. The Mondriaan Fund has selected the presentation Room with Broken Sentence by curator Lorenzo Benedetti (b. 1972) and visual artist [Read More]

440 Gallery presents Holiday Affordable Art Sale on November 29 – December 2, 2012. Don’t buy that reindeer-print sweater, avoid those ironic doo-dads. Be noticed and remembered for your thoughtful, yet original and appropriate gift. Give art this year, art created by [Read More]