St. Patrick’s School Library and Music Room in London has won the RIBA’s 2011 Stephen Lawrence Prize. St Patrick’s School Library and Music Room, Architect: Coffey Architects, Client: St Patrick’s School The RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize is funded by the Marco Goldschmied [Read More]
The Howard Greenberg Gallery presents Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker, an exhibition on view through October 22, 2011. The exhibition is curated by Elisabeth Biondi, the former visuals editor of the magazine. The New Yorker Magazine began to publish photographs [Read More]
Contemporary artistic production from the geopolitical south and the work of the Danish/Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson are the focal points of the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, scheduled to open on September 30 in three separate cultural venues across São Paulo. [Read More]
ART IN LA: Where, exactly, is Los Angeles? Somewhere between the studio lot and the Eagle Rock studio, Chinatown and Chinatown? Between the “playfield of the devil,” as Richard Neutra called it, and the “hyperurban configuration” described by Fredric Jameson? On the [Read More]
The Evelyn Grace Academy, London by Zaha Hadid Architects has won the prestigious £20,000 RIBA Stirling Prize 2011. Evelyn Grace Academy Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects Client: ARK Schools Photographer: Hufton Crow This is the second year running that Zaha Hadid Architects have [Read More]
André Kertész (1894-1985) is today famous for his extraordinary contribution to the language of photography in the 20th century. This retrospective, the touring exhibition of the Jeu de Paume, which travels after Winterthur and Berlin to Budapest, marshals a large number of [Read More]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Moderna Museet present De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde an exhibition on view 30 September 2011 – 13 November 2011 in Stockholm. Fifty years of intense studies to find the key to [Read More]
The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart presents the first major retrospective in Germany of the renowned British architect, teacher and Pritzker Prize laureate James Frazer Stirling (1924–1992). James Frazer Stirling, House for the Architect: model, probably late autumn 1948, © James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds, Canadian [Read More]
For more than a century, the city of Pittsburgh has been the subject of some of America’s most important photographers. The exhibition Picturing the City: Downtown Pittsburgh, 2007–2010, on view through March 25, 2012 at Carnegie Museum of Art, adds to this [Read More]
49 Nord 6 Est FRAC Lorraine presents The least of the world on view 7 October 2011–8 January 2012. In search of The least of the world [1]… The FRAC Lorraine invites you into an exploration of your inner sensations stimulated by [Read More]
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents MATRIX 239 Silke Otto-Knapp A light in the moon, on view now through January 15, 2012. Silke Otto-Knapp: Two Figures (white), 2006; watercolor and gouache on canvas; 39 1/2 x [Read More]
Charlie Smith Gallery presents “John Stark: Apiculture an exhibition on view at the gallery from October 7th through November 12th. John Stark The Islander, 2011 Oil on wood panel, Charlie Smith Gallery In this exhibition, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the [Read More]
The British Ceramics Biennial opened on 30 September and is on view through 13 November 2011. Building on the success of the inaugural festival in 2009, this international cultural event once again presents the very best in contemporary ceramics. Six weeks of [Read More]
The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK presents the first retrospective of the career of Daniel Meadows photographer, documentarian, digital storyteller and unofficial co-founder of a uniquely British photography movement. On view from 1 October 2011 through 19 February 2012. Butlin’s, Filey, [Read More]