BILBAO, SPAIN – The year 2011 marks the centenary of the birth of Roberto Matta, one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century art because of his importance as a member of the Surrealist group and his enormous influence on the development…
Exhibition Featuring Objects Never Before Seen in Canada to Be Presented in Toronto
TORONTO.- In a media event held today at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), the ROM and the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) have announced that the two institutions will host Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World, a remarkable exhibition highlighting…
AnArte Gallery Displays "Yvette Shadrock: Easrthsongs" in May
San Antonio, TX.- AnArte Gallery eagerly anticipates the opening of artist Yvette Shadrock’s newest exhibit, “Earthsongs”, on Thursday, May 12 from 6:00 until 8:00. The opening reception will feature live music by violinist Rob Jimenez, r…
Dundee Contemporary Arts Opens Manfred Pernice’s First Solo Show in the UK
DUNDEE.- Dundee Contemporary Arts presents new and recent works by Manfred Pernice – one of the most outstanding German artists of his generation. This is the first solo exhibition in the UK in partnership with Modern Art Oxford and SMAK, Ghent. Concei…
Film, Two-Dimensional Images and the Structural Use of Color by Liz Larner at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents the gallery’s first exhibition of work by Liz Larner. Bringing film, two-dimensional images and the structural use of color to bear on sculptural expression, Larner’s work demonstrates an innovat…
KUB Arena Presents Living Archives in Cooperation with the Van Abbemuseum
BREGENZ.- What is an archive? What is a collection? What are the relationships between the documents stored in archives and objects stored in collections concerned with memory, identity, history, and politics? What narrations are implied in them and to…
Vlatka Horvat Opens the Spring Season at Bergen Kunsthall with Major Installation
BERGEN.- Her exhibition can be seen as a stage in an ongoing process for the artist, since she is here continuing her long-term iterative investigations of spatial qualities and relations. With a well established artistic strategy, where the method inv…
"Counter Space" Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art Seeks Utopia in the Kitchen
NEW YORK, NY.- It’s considered the heartbeat of the home and an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art provides a fresh perspective on kitchens and the emotional and ideological hold they have on cooks and non-cooks alike. “Counter Space: Design and the M…
Bonnefantenmuseum Shows Exhibition by BACA Laureate 2010: Francis Alÿs
MAASTRICHT.- The BACA is the only major award for international visual art in the Netherlands. The 2010 jury, comprised of Enrico Lunghi, Dirk Snauwaert and Alexander van Grevenstein, decided unanimously to give the award to Francis Alÿs (B – 1959), f…
ATLAS: How to Carry the World on One’s Back? on Display at the Museo Reina Sofía
MADRID.- The exhibition Atlas proposes to shed light on the new framework of thought that Aby Warburg introduced to Western knowledge of history and images. The exhibition aims to demonstrate that after Warburg and his “Bilderatlas”, images w…