PARIS.- Held at the Carrousel du Louvre from 18th to 21st
November 2010, Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair for 19th Century, modern
and contemporary photography will bring together 103 exhibitors including 90
galleries and 13 publisher…
Times Square Alliance Public Art Program Invites Artists Propose Projects
NEW YORK, NY.- After a successful 18 months initiating a public art program for Times Square, the Times Square Alliance enters its second phase with an open call to arts organizations and artists for future contemporary art and performance. Art organi…
Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
BEIJING.- The Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art
(UCCA) presents the exhibition “Feelings are Facts”, from 3 April to 20
June
2010, fruit of the first collaboration between Olafur Eliasson, the
Danish-Icelandic artist, and Ma Yansong, one of …
Art Dubai Appoints Antonia Carver as Its New Fair Director
DUBAI.- The Board of Art Dubai has announced the appointment of Antonia Carver to succeed John Martin as Fair Director of Art Dubai. Antonia Carver is a writer and arts administrator, and has been widely recognized as a leading advocate of contemporary…
Bosnia Turns Marshal Tito Nuclear Bunker into Art Gallery
KONJIC (AP).- It was built to withstand nuclear war, a secret bunker to shelter communist Yugoslavia’s strongman and his inside circle. Decades later, the massive underground complex is about to be reborn as one of the world’s quirkiest art galleries. …
Satellite Fairs Give Galleries the Chance to Show the Work of the World’s Emerging Artists
BASEL.- SCOPE, the art show that has established its name by curating cutting edge contemporary art from around the world, returns to Basel for the fourth year. Running concurrent with Art Basel for the next three years, SCOPE’s new high profile v…
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth hosts a Comprehensive Survey of Works by William Kentridge
FORT WORTH, TX.- William Kentridge: Five Themes, a
comprehensive survey of the contemporary South African artist’s work,
opened at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Featuring more than 75
works in a range of media—includin…
Art Gallery of Ontario Announces Major Julian Schnabel Exhibition
TORONTO.- American art superstar Julian
Schnabel
has spent his life pushing the limits of painting and crossing artistic
boundaries as an award-winning filmmaker. Now, for the first time, a
major
retrospective examines the connections betwee…
The Centre Pompidou Dedicates An Exhibition to Women: elles-at-centrepompidou
PARIS – The new
hang of the permanent collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne is to
be entirely devoted to modern and contemporary women artists – the first
time such a thing will have been done by a national museum…
Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize Launches June 2010
LONDON.- The first of its kind, Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP) is a global search to identify the most talented emerging Iranian artists from both its homeland and the Persian Diaspora. The MOP CAP judging panel is made up of experts …