Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012 Winners Announced

The Abraaj Capital Art Prize, now in its fourth year, is delighted to announce its five winning artists for 2012. The artists, who were selected from a record number of submissions, have begun working on realizing the artworks they proposed which will [Read More]

Design Matters Wins the 2011 People’s Design Award

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum presented its sixth People’s Design Award to Design Matters, a show about design and culture, Thursday, Oct. 20, at its 12th annual National Design Awards gala in New York. White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard and [Read More]

Gerard Sekoto Paintings of Sophiatown for Bonhams Sale

Images by Gerard Sekoto of Sophiatown, once his home outside Johannesburg, demolished and renamed ‘Triumph’ by the apartheid regime, and now resurrected once more as Sophiatown, go on sale at Bonhams next week. The two images are listed among the South African [Read More]

MIT List Visual Arts Center Opens Otto Piene. Lichtballett

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s List Visual Arts Center presents Otto Piene: Lichtballett an exhibition of the light-based sculptural work of Otto Piene (b. 1928, Bad Laasphe, Germany), on view October 21, 2011 – December 31, 2011. Piene is a pioneering figure [Read More]

Joshua Liner Gallery Opens Ryan McLennan Abominations

Joshua Liner Gallery presents Abominations, an exhibition of new paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist Ryan McLennan, on view October 20 to November 19, 2011. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. McLennan’s acrylic and graphite on paper works depict [Read More]

KALEIDOSCOPE Project Space Announces An Image. Group Show

Kaleidoscope Project Space presents “An Image,” a group show including works by Bernadette Corporation, Anders Clausen, Roe Ethridge, Harun Farocki, Nikolas Gambaroff, Massimo Grimaldi, David Jablonowski, Oliver Laric, Graham Little, Mathias Poledna, Timur Si-Qin, Lucie Stahl, Ger van Elk, and Ian Wallace. [Read More]

2011 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Awards

His Imperial Highness Prince Hitachi, honorary patron of the Japan Art Association, presented the Praemium Imperiale art awards at a formal ceremony in Tokyo to an esteemed class of Laureates who have shown extraordinary achievement in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, [Read More]