Author Archives: jolanta
8th Annual “Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art” Kicks off During Asian Contemporary Art Week
8th Annual “Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art” Kicks off During Asian Contemporary Art Week (New York, NY – February 10, 2011) The Indo-American Arts Council’s 8th Annual Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora features work by 43 artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian subcontinent. This group […]
45th Art Cologne Stays on Top
When a small group of German gallery owners organized the first Cologne art fair in 1967, they aimed to establish a new art centre — at least temporarily. Their long-term goal was to promote the creation of art in Germany — in other words, young German artists — and to position them in the international […]
ACAW Program Schedule
MON. MAR 21 The Museum of Modern 7:00 pm: Art Dialogue with Artist + Screening TUE. MAR 22 Sotheby’s 6:00 pm: Dialogue with Artists + Book Launch + Reception WED. MAR 23 (Signature Event) Asia Society and Museum 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists MON. MAR 21The Museum of Modern 7:00 pm: Art Dialogue with Artist […]
Video 2011 PART V: Patty Chang
Momenta Art 359 Bedford Avenue, between S. 4th and S. 5th, 718-218-8058, March 17 – March 27, 2011 Opening: Sunday, March 20, 3 – 5 PM Momenta Art is pleased to present a new video installation by Patty Chang on view from March 17- March 27, 2011. Patty Chang examines the psychic and physical […]
The Light Show
Kate Werble Gallery 83 Vandam Street, 212-352-9700, March 19 – April 23, 2011 Opening: Saturday, March 19, 6 – 8 PM Kate Werble Gallery presents The Light Show, new work by nine New York City-based artists who were asked to make a self-illuminating sculpture specifically for this exhibition. Featured Artists: CHRISTOPHER CHIAPPA, BROCK ENRIGHT, RACHEL […]
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Protests
A group of more than 130 artists, including many prominent figures in the Middle Eastern art world, says it will boycott the $800 million Guggenheim museum being built in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, unless conditions for the foreign laborers at the site are improved, Nicolai Ouroussoff reports for the New […]
Leo Steinberg (1920–2011)
Leo Steinberg, one of the most brilliant, influential, and controversial art historians of the last half of the twentieth century, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan, reports Ken Johnson for the New York Times. He was ninety. Johnson writes that the titles of his two best-known books, Other Criteria: Confrontations With Twentieth-Century Art […]
Two Riparian Tales of Undoing
Duke RileyMagnan Metz Gallery521 West 26th StreetChelseaFebruary 26 – April 9, 2011 Friday, February 25, 6 – 10 PM Magnan Metz Gallery is proud to announce Two Riparian Tales of Undoing, Duke Riley’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and first since his critically acclaimed exhibition After the Battle of Brooklyn in 2007. The […]
Riding the Crest of the Latin American Art Wave
It was only a few years ago, 2007 to be exact, that ‘The Pinta People’ taking a big gamble took the art world by surprise by mounting the world’s first international Latin American Modern & Contemporary Art Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. With 35 international galleries and countless Hispanic artists from […]
Women Without Men
Shirin Neshat has for over a decade fascinated us with the beauty, sensuous, timelessness of both her photographic works, and single and multi-channel video works. Born in Qazvin, Shirin Neshat left Iran just before the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent fall of the Shah. Since l983, Neshat’s art works have raised important questions […]
