Gauri Gill Wins Grange Prize 2011 for Photography

The Art Gallery of Ontario and Aeroplan announces that Delhi-based artist Gauri Gill is the winner of The Grange Prize 2011. The $50,000 prize is Canada’s largest photography prize, also granting $5,000 and an international residency to each of the runners-up, and [Read More]

800,000 Visitors Attend the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale

The 4th Gwangju Design Biennale hosted by Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Untae Kang) and Gwangju Biennale Foundation (President Yongwoo Lee), and co-directed by Korean architect Seung Hyosang and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, held its closing ceremony on October 23rd with a record [Read More]

Frank To Exhibit Cycling Diptych at Edinburgh Art Fair

Frank To, the young Glasgow-based artist with a growing international reputation as a leading contemporary figurative painter, will exhibit ‘The Collision of Eras’, a diptych featuring legendary Scottish cyclists Sir Chris Hoy and Graeme Obree, at this year’s Edinburgh Art Fair. Frank [Read More]

Afterall issue 28 Autumn/Winter 2011

Afterall 28, featuring: Ricardo Basbaum Jean-Luc Moulène Lia Perjovschi Emily Wardill has been announced. Afterall issue 28, Autumn/Winter 2011, looks at the mediation of relationships by objects—artistic objects, pedagogical tools or commodities. A prolific writer, educator and art practitioner, Ricardo Basbaum has [Read More]

Artforum November 2011

Alternately grotesque and ethereal, Alina Szapocznikow’s casts haunt the history of sculpture and figuration today. Curator Adam Szymczyk carves a path through the Polish artist’s uncategorizable corpus on the occasion of a major survey of her work from the mid-1950s to the [Read More]

Kunsthaus Bregenz Presents VALIE EXPORT Archive

Kunsthaus Bregenz presents VALIE EXPORT Archive on view 29 October 2011–22 January 2012. The exhibition, VALIE EXPORT / Archive, provides the opportunity to rediscover new aspects of an internationally renowned artist whose works are counted among the canon of 20th century art [Read More]

Paris Photo 2011 Live Platform

The Paris Photo Platform is exploring different aspects of these changes and their links to the medium. 10–13 November 2011. Four days on Geography, Technology, Society / Media, and Body. For its 15th edition, Paris Photo invites you to: • A daily [Read More]