The Empty Quarter presents Unguarded Moments by Steve McCurry, an exhibition on view December 10, 2012 – January 10, 2013. Steve McCurry, Stilt fishermen, Weligama, Sri Lanka, 1995 © Steve McCurry The new exhibition at the Empty Quarter celebrates three decades of [Read More]
Fotomuseum Winterthur presents Barrada. Riffs an exhibition of photographs by the French-Moroccan artist. In 2011 she was selected by Deutsche Bank as “Artist of the Year” 2011. The award includes an exhibition made possible by the financial institution, which was presented at [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]
National Gallery of Victoria presents a survey of the work of contemporary photographer Jeff Wall, on view through 17 March 2013. Jeff Wall (Canadian 1946–), Knife throw 2008. Colour photograph, AP, 184.0 x 256.0 cm. Collection of the artist© Jeff Wall Jeff [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]
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Siegen presents Dear Aby Warburg, What Can Be Done with Images? Dealing with Photographic Material on view through March 3, 2013. Simon Wachsmuth, Saba, 2010. © VG Bild-Kunst, 2012. Photo: Rainer Iglar. The exhibition Dear Aby Warburg, What Can [Read More]
Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR) acquires recent work by Elmgreen & Dragset for the city and masterpiece by Henry Moore in storage for four years The city changes and its art keeps pace: Elmgreen & Dragset’s temporary artwork has recently been added to [Read More]
Oklahoma City Museum of Art announces Photorealism Revisited, an exhibition on view January 24 – April 21, 2013. Image: Oklahoma City Museum of Art The exhibition features approximately sixty works from some of the most well known Photorealist artists. Photorealism—the first modern [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]
Qatar Museums Authority has installed ‘Perceval’, a public art made by British artist Sarah Lucas at Aspire Park. Sarah Lucas Perceval Qatar Museums Authority Perceval’ is a life-sized bronze sculpture of a Shire horse pulling a cart with two oversized squash. The [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]
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY. Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath an exhibition open from Sunday, November 11, featureing nearly 500 objects, including photographs, books, magazines, albums and photographic equipment. The photographs were made by more than 280 photographers, [Read More]