la maison rouge presents My Joburg an exhibition on view 20 June–22 September 2013. In June 2011, la maison rouge launched a series of exhibitions focusing on the art scenes of cities said—erroneously—to be “peripheral” [Read More]
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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Sobey Art Foundation have announced the five artists shortlisted for the 2013 Sobey Art Award, the pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian Art. The 2013 short list: West [Read More]
Earlier this year, the Getty Research Institute (GRI) added nearly 100,000 art sale records from more than 1,200 British auction catalogs of the period 1780–1800 to its free online art historical research resources. These important [Read More]
Guggenheim Museum presents James Turrell an exhibition on view June 21 to September 25, 2013. James Turrell’s first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980 focuses on the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of perception, light, [Read More]
Centre d’art contemporain – la synagogue de Delme presents Susan Hiller Channels on view through June 12–September 29, 2013. An American artist who has lived in London since 1969, Hiller has been one of the [Read More]
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) unveiled Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s monumental sculpture series Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze in the reflecting pool of Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square. The installation precedes the AGO’s [Read More]
Secession presents Rossella Biscotti The Side Room on view July 5–September 1, 2013. Rossella Biscotti’s installations are generally highly complex and comprise sculptures, performances, documents, and audio works. Based on archival research and personal conversations [Read More]
Secession presents Robert Irwin: Three Volumes an exhibition on view July 5–September 1, 2013. For over 40 years now, seeing, or more specifically, perception, has been the foundation of Robert Irwin’s artistic practice. At the [Read More]
Secession presents Thomas Locher Homo Oeconomicus an exhibition on view July 5–September 1, 2013. A pioneer of neo-conceptual art since the late 1980s, the German artist Thomas Locher examines the rules of language and the [Read More]
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announces LaToya Ruby Frazier: WITNESS open June 22–October 13, 2013. LaToya Ruby Frazier’s documentary practice focuses on her family and her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Braddock was [Read More]
Present Tense exhibition will be taking place nineteen years after the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, twenty-one years after the peace agreements in Mozambique, twenty-three years after Namibia declared independence and eleven [Read More]
Brandywine River Museum presents Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent and Monhegan an exhibition on view June 15 through November 17. A small island off the coast of Maine, Monhegan has long lured artists to its remote [Read More]
The Victoria and Albert Museum presents a monumental three-figure sculpture by Georg Baselitz, one of Germany’s most celebrated living artists, will be installed in the John Madejski Garden, on view 15 June – 8 September [Read More]
The Hillman Photography Initiative will serve as a living laboratory for photography, exploring the intersections among artistic practices and technological research. It will further these explorations by supporting the development of projects that break down [Read More]
Delfina Foundation announce Points of Departure on view 26 June–21 July 2013, the culmination of a year-long collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), ArtSchool Palestine and the British Council. Presented at the ICA, [Read More]
Whitechapel Gallery presents Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before? on view 18 June 2013 – 8 September 2013. A bear with soft fur made of fluffy chicken down forms the central work [Read More]
Trondheim Kunstmuseum presents Lips Painted Red: Strategies to Create and Maintain Female Identities & Teresa Burga an exhibition on view 22 June–15 September 2013. Lips Painted Red is a project examining how female identities are [Read More]
Havremagasinet – Boden Art Center presents Elemental an exhibition on view June 6–October 20, 2013. At the core of Elemental are not only select Icelandic artists, but Iceland altogether, with its special and indeed “elemental” [Read More]