The “Contemporary Mexican Cinema” cycle is programmed in collaboration with the MAPFRE Foundation’s 4+1 Festival, which has created a circuit of five cities for screening auteur movies to have participated at international festivals but not yet released in commercial cinemas. Its venues [Read More]
The Kunstmuseum Basel presents Max Beckmann. The Landscapes on view 09.04.2011–01.22.2012. Max Beckmann, Riviera-Landschaft, 1942, Oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York) is one of the titans of modernism, even though he saw himself as the [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum has acquired the prototype to the now world-famous Bone Chair by Joris Laarman. Designed in 2006 by the Dutch designer Joris Laarman (1979), the Bone Chair soon became an icon. Commissioned by Droog Design and the Friedmanbenda gallery, twelve chairs [Read More]
The autumn season of 2011 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt belongs to Ulrike Ottinger. The renowned filmmaker, photographer, and collector of images and texts from around the world displays various aspects of her creation in a huge collage. Water, the central [Read More]
Malmo Konsthall presents Misaki Kawai Big Bubble on view 10 September–27 November 2011. The Japanese artist Misaki Kawai (b. 1978) works with painting, drawing, sculpture, installations and artists’ books. Her works are filled with colourful characters that appear to come from the [Read More]
The Art Fair Company, based in Chicago, announcess two art fairs under one roof at Chicago’s historic Navy Pier (600 E. Grand Avenue) Friday, Nov. 4 – Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. Don Reitz, stoneware, 15 x 12.5 x 11.5″. Lacoste Gallery, Concord [Read More]
This display, on view 17 August 2011 – 18 March 2012, marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Dobson (1611-46), described by the antiquary John Aubrey as ‘the most excellent painter that England hath yet bred’. His career was tragically [Read More]
The Museum Of Russian Icons has extended it’s exhibition “Exploring Sanctity: Paths to Sainthood Unveiled” until October 1. The new exhibition showcases twenty-four icons in the Museum of Russian Icons collection that illustrate the unique and iconoclastic journeys of ordinary people to [Read More]
The anniversary issue celebrates the past and the future. For the 20th anniversary issue frieze asked 20 artists whose work has been on the cover of frieze to nominate a contemporary artist whose work inspires them. Artists, including Doug Aitken, Charles Atlas, [Read More]
Exhibition presenting Japanese artists Hideaki Kawashima, Makiko Kudo and Toru Kuwakubo on display from September 14 to October 14, 2011 fordPROJECT announces the opening of Reflections, a group exhibition showcasing three young Japanese artists, Hideaki Kawashima, Makiko Kudo and Toru Kuwakubo. The [Read More]
The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Artistic Directors, Seung H-Sang and Ai Weiwei, are pleased to announce the fourth edition of Gwangju Design Biennale, opening September 1, 2011. Titled Design is Design is not Design, the Gwangju Design Biennale will present 130 designers [Read More]
For the fourth time, from September 10–November 11, 2011 the three cities of Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg will host Germany’s most exceptional photography festival. Entitled THE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER: IMAGES OF HUMANKIND, the exhibition will include 56 artists from 32 [Read More]
This exhibition, on view September 16 – November 13, 2011, highlights work from the permanent collection created by former Museum School Faculty along with recent works made by current Faculty members. Exhibition organized by the Arkansas Arts Center. Arkansas Arts Center 501 [Read More]
Scrap Electronics Repurposed as Art by Arizona artist Joe Drag uses computers to be junked at the local recycling center, reports Wired. Joe Drag Memory “Seeing the stack of old computers, the idea just struck me,” he says. “The motherboards can make [Read More]