ROTTERDAM.- For Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen an extraordinarily successful year has drawn to a close. More than 320,000 people visited the 30-plus presentations that the museum organised in its own building and on location. The museum made exceptional…
Museum Of Contemporary Art San Diego Presents David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego joins dozens of arts organizations and universities across the United States in protesting the Smithsonian Institution’s decision to remove a video by David Wojnarowicz from the National Por…
About Face: A Group Exhibition at Two Window Project in Berlin
BERLIN.- One subject and three artists; they all have their own story to tell and each has their own unique approach to this classic genre of art: portraiture. While all three artists have taken concepts from two different time periods and fused them t…
China Builds Sichuan Earthquake Museum
BEIJING (AP).- Chinese state media says construction has begun on a museum commemorating the nearly 90,000 people who died during a 2008 earthquake. Xinhua News Agency says the museum is located in the worst-hit region of Beichuan in Sichuan province i…
A New, Vetted Art Fair Focused on Emerging Artists and Galleries to Be Held in Washington
WASHINGTON, D.C.- (e)merge, a new, vetted art fair focused on emerging artists and galleries with emerging art, will launch September 22 – 25, 2011, at the Rubell Family’s modernist, Morris Lapidus-designed Capitol Skyline hotel in Washington, DC,…
Kunsthalle Mannheim Establishes a Flexible Platform for Exhibiting Contemporary Art
MANNHEIM.- “Premiere” is the name that Kunsthalle Mannheim has given its new exhibition format dedicated to current international trends in contemporary art. The start is made by Enrique Marty, one of the shooting stars of the Spanish art sce…
Hungary to Sell Communist Relics to Benefit the Victims of Last Month’s Red Sludge Flood
BUDAPEST (AP).- Hungary will auction off 230 communist-era relics, including a life-size bust of former Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin, to benefit the victims of last month’s red sludge flood. The objects, which also include paintings in the Socialist …
Kate’s Excellent Adventure: A Month at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry
CHICAGO (AP).- Nights at the museum aren’t always as quiet as you’d think. There are parties and corporate events. Sometimes, dozens of kids and their parents are allowed in for one big, fairly sleepless sleepover. But then the place can go from busy …
Kate’s Excellent Adventure: A Month at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry
CHICAGO (AP).- Nights at the museum aren’t always as quiet as you’d think. There are parties and corporate events. Sometimes, dozens of kids and their parents are allowed in for one big, fairly sleepless sleepover. But then the place can go from busy …
Jonas Lipps’ "Available Material of the Necessary Time" at Klosterfelde
BERLIN.- It was my first time in the studio/home (or home/studio) of Jonas Lipps. I was certain of entering a living condition in which the artist proceeds in total harmony with the work. I imagined as much not only because Jonas Lipps lives in the spa…