The Crucible, Oakland’s nonprofit fine and industrial arts and education center, is adding twenty-eight hours of studio access each week and increasing space and equipment for popular classes. The changes are designed to make The Crucible’s unique resources more accessible to a [Read More]
An archive of material pertaining to the famous counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb – including a pair of original hand-drawn personal greeting cards and a 13-page sketchbook – sold for $16,950 at a multi-estate sale held March 4-6 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The [Read More]
NEW YORK – Since its opening on March 16 for Asia Week New York 2011, “Birds of Dawn: Pioneers of Japan’s Sôdeisha Ceramic Movement,” the exhibition currently on view at Joan B. Mirviss Ltd. at 39 East 78th Street, has been attracting [Read More]
The Ferrin Gallery presents “The Pursuit of Porcelain” — an installation of ceramic sculpture, photography, video and works on paper — at the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair in New York, April 14 – 17, 2011, at the Park Avenue Armory. [Read More]
Lehmann Maupin Gallery announces its second solo exhibition of works by Tim Rollins and K.O.S., on view 24 March – 30 April, 2011 at 540 W. 26th Street. The exhibition will continue the artists’ extensive practice of challenging notions of art through [Read More]
Out of the Silent Planet, on view through 29 May 2011, consists of ten media art pieces from museum collection by the following revolutionary media artists from 1970s to present; Park Hyun-ki, Yook Tae-jin, Kim Seung-young, Kim Ki-chul, Cho Duck-hyun, Kim Young-jin, [Read More]
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents The Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund: Conversations with Contemporary Artists. Omer Fast Tuesday, April 5 Omer Fast works with film, video, and television footage to examine the complex interplay between personal and public histories. In his [Read More]
American artist Jeff Guess looks into the pinhole concept via a three-part presentation: an installation comprising two video projections – Disambiguation (2004 [2011]) and Untitled (2011) – and the photographic object Partially Instantiated Object (2011). The two latter pieces have been specially [Read More]
Alan Cristea Gallery presents an exhibition of rare portrait lithographs by Pablo Picasso, from 24 March until 21 April 2011. Lithography, a method for printing using a stone or metal plate, was a medium which fascinated Picasso; this exhibition charts the decade [Read More]
de Appel arts centre and The Fair Gallery announces The Gallerist Programme: A professional development programme for aspiring gallerists September 2012–June 2013. Presenting a week of intensive workshops in the Fall of 2011. de Appel arts centre and The Fair Gallery are [Read More]
he Pergamonmuseum presents A Collector’s Fortune. Islamic Art Masterpieces of the Keir Collection, open 18 March 2010 – until further notice. Known around the world as the ‘Keir Collection’, Edmund de Unger’s collection of Islamic art will, over the coming years, enrich [Read More]
The Museo Amparo presents an exhibition of work Dr. Lakra on view now through 9 May 2011. Jerónimo López Ramírez (born 1972, Oaxaca, Mexico) is a self-taught illustrator and tattoo artist who signs his work as Dr. Lakra. This alias reflects the [Read More]
Established in 1987, Toronto’s Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen. Alongside film and video screenings, the festival [Read More]
Christie’s auctioneers, and the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai’s leading contemporary art museum, will present “BEING”, an exhibition featuring about 30 iconic works by Zeng Fanzhi (born in 1964), one of the world’s best known Chinese contemporary artists. Sponsored by the François Pinault [Read More]