BILBAO.- From January 31 to September 2, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will be hosting The Inverted Mirror: Art from the Collections of ”la Caixa” Foundation and MACBA, a superb selection of works belonging to two outstanding contemporar…
Israeli artist Ruven Kuperman opens exhibition at Kit Schulte Contemporary Art
BERLIN.- Kit Schulte Contemporary Art announces an exhibition by Israeli artist Ruven Kuperman to the Berlin audience. In New Mythologies, Kuperman attempts to connect japanese elements of tradition and culture with a heroic contemporary imagery, based…
Frederick’s Montezuma: Power and Meaning in the Prussian Court Opera opens in Berlin
BERLIN.- The exhibition centres around the ‘tragedy for music’, Montezuma, composed in 1755 by Carl Heinrich Graun and performed for the first time in the royal opera house on Unter den Linden. Frederick the Great personally wrote the opera’s libretto….
Egyptians move to reclaim streets through graffiti
CAIRO (AP).- The conflict between Egypt’s ruling military and pro-democracy protesters isn’t just on the streets of Cairo, it’s on the walls as well, as graffiti artists from each side duel it out with spray paint and stencils. Earlier this month, supp…
Media pioneer Zbigniew Rybczynski and Gábor Bódy in an exhibition at the ZKM Media Museum
KARLSRUHE.- Zbigniew Rybczyński and Gábor Bódy have never met, and yet they are connected by a pioneering development: from the early 1970s both welcomed the challenge that the new media technologies represented for art – initially as …
MoMA P.S. 1 announces a solo exhibition of Darren Bader
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana Marx / Stuff: the precise affinity between the generic and the specific –Ford / I see you’ve gone and changed your name again –Cohen Sculpture’s everywhere. It’s…
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announces recipients for the inaugural round of its artistic grants
NEW YORK, NY.- The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announced the recipients of its new Artistic Innovation and Collaboration grant program (AIC) to advance the values promoted by artist and activist Robert Rauschenberg during his lifetime and career. Th…
Exhibition on the production and culture of tobacco as seen through the eyes of Xu Bing
RIDGEFIELD, CT.- Xu Bing: Tobacco Project explores the production and culture of tobacco as seen through the eyes of one of China’s most ground-breaking contemporary artists. Organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition’s onl…
Celebrities and unknowns alike star in presentation of nearly forty rarely or never-seen Andy Warhol Polaroids
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240. The exhibition features a selection of Warhol’s Polaroid portraits drawn from an extraordinary gift of The Andy…
Kunsthalle Zurich announces opening date in new permanent home in the Lowenbrau art complex
ZURICH.- The Kunsthalle Zürich will re-open to the public in its new permanent home in the Löwenbräu art complex in Zurich on 10 June 2012 with the special exhibition, Looking Back for the Future. Since it was founded in 1985, the Kunsthalle Zürich…