Graduation Fever 3: ArtEZ Arnhem

reviews  13.07.10  Jane Boddy

Arnhem
ArtEZ
07/07/10 - 11/07/10

A photo report from the graduation show of the Artez Academy in Arnhem.

Read more..

Graduation Fever 2:
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag

reviews  07.07.10  Alexander Mayhew

Den Haag
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunst
26/06/10 - 03/07/10

A photo report from the graduation show of the KABK in The Hague.

Read more..

Graduation Fever 1: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht

reviews  27.06.10  Domeniek Ruyters

A photo report from the graduation show of the HKU in Utrecht.

Read more..

Basel 2010
The Highs and Lows

reviews  21.06.10  Alexander Mayhew

Basel
Art Basel, Art Statements, Volta, Liste, Art Public, Art Unlimited, Design Miami/Basel
16/06/10 - 20/06/10

Who's hot and who's not? Alexander Mayhew reports from Art Basel 2010 and all its satellite fairs.

Read more..

Italy comes to terms with contemporary art
MAXXI opens in Rome

reviews  09.06.10  Pieternel Vermoortel

After decades of neglecting contemporary art, Italy opens its first national museum dedicated to it. Pieternel Vermoortel describes the new venue designed by Zaha Hadid.

Read more..

Politics on Display
Dak’Art 2010

reviews  07.06.10  Kerstin Winking & Jelle Bouwhuis

Dakar
Dak'Art 2010, Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain
07/05/10 - 07/06/10

That there is a relation between political powers and exhibition spaces is old news. However, Dak’Art 2010, the biennial of contemporary African art which has taken place in Dakar, Senegal since 1992, once again audaciously exploited this relationship to an uncomfortable degree.

Read more..

Happy Birthday Tate Modern
A celebration with No Soul for Sale

reviews  20.05.10  Pieternel Vermoortel

London
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
14/05/10 - 16/01/10

It was the weekend of artists' initiative festivals. While Amsterdam's Art Pie is mostly focussing on Dutch contributions, No Soul For Sale in London brought together a more international crowd. ‘A pop-up village in a dogville like setting’.

Read more..

Exhibitions of the nineties in perspective
Former West: Art and the Social

reviews  14.05.10  Pieternel Vermoortel

London
Tate Britain
30/04/10 - 30/04/10

Is it already possible to write the history of exhibitions in the nineties or are we too close and should we act as an engaged spectator?

Read more..

Berlin Gallery Weekend
Johann König, Max Hetzler, Hamish Morrison

reviews  10.05.10  Judith Vrancken

Berlin
Johann König, Max Hetzler, Hamish Morrison
01/01/10 - 05/06/10

As the opening night of a proper Berlin Gallery Weekend requires, the art was somewhat secondary to the ubiquitous wine and networking by its fashionable and multilingual audience. In terms of art however, this year, the participating galleries seem to put a collective focus on exceptionally theatrical pieces and forms of presentation. Here are some highlights from our Berlin correspondent.

Read more..

The Secret Painter
Hilma af Klint at MMKA

reviews  22.04.10  Jenny Wilson

Arnhem
MMKA
07/03/10 - 30/05/10

Hilma af Klint's paintings, now on show in Arnhem, demonstrate abstraction even before Kandinsky's and Mondrian's works did. In retrospect, should we revisit our understanding of the early development of modern art?

Read more..

 
« 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 »

Fresh signals Fresh Signals RSS feed

News & links from Metropolis M & co.

The Kunstverein Amsterdam is setting a sterling example for museums and galleries worldwide with its announcement for its upcoming show “Larry Bell and Sarah Crowner meet Marlow Moss.” This is how you get people excited, folks. DR - 12.04.13

George W. Bush: the artist? Art critic Jerry Saltz on the paintings of the president: “I actually think the Whitney Museum of American Art could give him a very small survey. I would write about it!” DR - 09.04.13

Liverpool Biennial Appoints Curators for 2014 08.04.13
Liverpool Biennial announces the joint appointment of Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman as curators of the 2014 Biennial, which will take place from 5 July to the end of October 2014.
Read more..

Jerry Saltz on The Death of The Gallery Show: 'These days, the art world is large and spread out, happening everywhere at once. Selling happens year-round, at art fairs, auctions, biennials, and big exhibitions, as well as online via JPEG files and even via collector apps. Gallery shows are now just another cog in the global wheel. DR - 07.04.13

William Eggleston's photographs of eerie Americana – in pictures. DR - 07.04.13

From Justin Bieber to the Obamas and Madonna, the self-taken cameraphone photo – now a staple of Instagram and Twitter – has become one of the cultural markers of our time DR - 03.04.13

Quote of the Day: “Culture is also something personal; it is cultivation with respect to the appreciation of ideas and art and broad human interests. When efficiency is identified with a narrow range of acts, instead of with the spirit and meaning of activity, culture is opposed to efficiency.” —John Dewey, Democracy and Education, 1916 (via TripleCanopy) DR - 02.04.13

Spring Breakers, the new film by Harmony Korine, opens with an impressively staged shot of pure pulchritude—a mass of golden bodies gyrating on a Florida beach—rendered somewhat absurd by the cartoonish sounds of Skrillex’s wacky techno distortions... Review by J. Hoberman in NY Review of books. DR - 01.04.13

Nicole Klagsbrun To Close Gallery 28.03.13
New York art dealer Nicole Klagsbrun will close her gallery of thirty years, reports Charlotte Burns of the Art Newspaper, citing overwhelming changes to the structure of the gallery system.
Read more..

Pablo de la Barra on the 8th Central American Bienal in Panama Biennial. Lot's of images. David Bade is also present in Panama - not in the report. DR - 26.03.13

« 2 3 4 5 6 »

Book blog

Colorfull Books

Read more..