For a decade now, Art Basel Conversations has offered the public a chance to see dynamic dialogues between prominent figures of the international art world, offering their firsthand perspective on producing, collecting and exhibiting art—and debating the key issues facing the art [Read More]
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India’s first biennale, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, is open 12 December, 2012–13 March, 2013. The three-month-long exhibition and cultural programme, the largest contemporary art event in the country, will take place across a string of venues in the Fort Kochi area. Aspinwall House, Fort [Read More]
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation announces daily programming during Art Basel Miami Beach 2012, open December 5–9, 2012. Activities during the tenth-anniversary celebration include daily breakfasts, an exhibition opening, curatorial talks, guided tour, and a book launch. Tatiana Blass, Metade da fala [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]
With the coming of the post-media or post-conceptual age, artists have become more concerned with creating new narrative structures for their stories, whether real or imaginary, and for their experiences, whether major or minor. The starting point is no longer the matter [Read More]
“Inventing the World” is the modest theme of the first official edition of the Biennale Regard Benin, which had informally premiered in June 2010 on the 50th Anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Benin. The first billboards in Cotonou announcing the [Read More]
Valentina Chiappini sees what she refers to as the “scratch” as her artistic signature. Using blades on her canvases lets her paint in what she calls a “nervous” style, adding a level of energy to her works that enhances their appeal to [Read More]
The Hugo Boss Prize 2012 has been awarded to Danh Vo, announced Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Claus-Dietrich Lahrs, Chairman and CEO, HUGO BOSS AG. Vo is the ninth artist to receive the biennial honor that was [Read More]
Brigitte Halewitsch, who was born 1940 in Ostrava/CSR, and attended the Academy of Arts in Saarbrücken, uses etching and photographs to create her art. By personal as well as professional experience as psychoanalyst she is deeply convinced that crisis management is a [Read More]
The American Photographic Artists has elected their new officers that will all take office in calendar year 2013, in a meeting in New York City on Sunday, October 28th, 2012. “It’s quite an honor to have been elected by my fellow photographers [Read More]
The International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana is delighted to announce the appointment of Deborah Cullen as a curator of the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. The jubilee Biennial will take place from 14 September to 24 November 2013. [Read More]
The Paris Photo Platform will take place at the Grand Palais in Paris from Thursday 15 November to Sunday 18 November. Structured as an experimental platform for critical exchanges, performances, and interactions, the Platform engages in dynamic presentations about the expanded field [Read More]
The Commissioner of the Russian Pavilion, Stella Kesaeva, announced the appointment of the curator of the Pavilion for the 55th Venice Biennale. The curator of the Russian Pavilion will be Udo Kittelmann, Director of the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (State Museums [Read More]
Throughout history, follies have been used widely in architecture, visual arts, and literature as a provocation, a frivolous diversion or strategic place of madness and satire freed from the constraints of societal norms. Follies have been employed as a critical medium or [Read More]