The National Gallery of Scotland presents The Artist Up Close: Portraits of Scottish Artists from the Prints and Drawings Collection on view 10 February through 5 June 2010. The Artist Up Close will bring together a broad range of portraits of some [Read More]
A nonprofit institution founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is internationally renowned for enabling artists’ visions by initiating, supporting, and preserving extraordinary art projects. Dia presents public and education programs, exhibitions, and its collection of works from the 1960s through the present [Read More]
Carnegie Museum of Art presents Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, the critically acclaimed first major exhibition to explore the work of the legendary artist. Defying classification, Paul Thek (1933 –1988)—the sculptor, painter, and creator of radical installations who was hailed for his [Read More]
International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) announces the first annual Art Naples International Contemporary Art Fair taking place at the newly renovated Naples International Pavilion, March 18th-21st, 2011with a Preview evening Thursday, March 17th to benefit the Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum [Read More]
Tthe Albertina presents an exhibition of drawings and watercolor paintings of the Blue Rider from the collection of Munich’s Lenbachhaus. On view through 15 May 2011. The Blue Rider (“Der Blaue Reiter”) was a loose grouping of artists, named after the almanac [Read More]
The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main presents Felix Gonzalez-Torres Specific Objects without Specific Form on view through APRIL, 25, 2011. The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main hosts the final leg of the traveling retrospective, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres. [Read More]
Artist Dora García has been selected by Katya García-Antón, curator for the Spanish Pavilion, to represent Spain in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale in 2011. Dora García, “Real Artists Don’t Have Teeth,” performance, 2010. Performer: Jakob Tamm. Courtesy Moderna Museet [Read More]
ARCOmadrid opens its doors on February 16th to art world professionals from noon to 9 pm, who can now get their passes to the fair online in the Request for Professional Access section on our web. After two professional preview days, the [Read More]
The term “anti-form” in the 1960s represented the abandonment of the traditional concept of art and sculpture. It was a radical challenge that opened doors to new aesthetic worlds, and was followed in the 1980s and 1990s by a further wave of [Read More]
The Crocker Art Museum presents a survey of the work of artist Gottfried Helnwein in the new exhibition “Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents,” on view through April 24, 2011. Organized by the Crocker, the exhibition features 70 major paintings and photographs [Read More]
Charles Garabedian’s paintings and works on paper explore themes of war, music, the body, dismemberment, heroism, comic pretension, love, and death—all conveyed with a sense of immediacy, intimacy, and poignancy. While ancient characters and tales, including Homeric literature, Old Testament stories, Greek [Read More]
This exhibition of the radical plastic oeuvre of the American artist Bill Bollinger (1939-1988), who almost slipped into obscurity, will be the first of its kind since the 1970s. On view through 8 May 2011 Bill Bollinger, “Cyclone Fence.” Exhibition view, Castelli [Read More]
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Tokyo native, Fumitoshi Kamura, in Matrix of the Mind: Contemporary Fine Art by Japanese Artists. The exhibition is scheduled to run from March 1, 2011 through March 22, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, March 3, 2011). Using simple [Read More]
The Goldstein Museum of Design presents small architecture, BIG LANDSCAPES on view through March 6, 2011 at HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, Minneapolis Campus. One billion leftover people—typically called squatters or self-builders or homeless (it’s a big category)–claim leftover spaces in cities and [Read More]