Author Archives: jolanta
MoMA response to last week’s travel ban on Twitter
In response to last week’s travel ban, we’ve installed #ZahaHadid‘s “The Peak Project, Hong Kong, China”: https://t.co/O1nUU3cPcw#ArtSpeakspic.twitter.com/sqVcdG3yws — Museum of Modern Art (@MuseumModernArt) February 4, 2017 Next to Henri Rousseau’s “The Sleeping Gypsy”, a painting by Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect who died last year. The showcase of contemporary art from Iran, Iraq […]
Luisa Lambri at The Met Breuer, New York
Breuer Revisited: New Photographs by Luisa Lambri and Bas Princen The Met Breuer 945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10021 February 1 – May 21, 2017 Luhring Augustine congratulates Luisa Lambri on her forthcoming two-person exhibition at The Met Breuer, New York. On the occasion of the exhibition Lambri spoke to Artforum about her work: Link to article. […]
Black Power! at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Black Power! On view in the Main Exhibition Hall Curated by Dr. Sylviane A. Diouf The concept of Black Power was introduced by Stokely Carmichael and fellow Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker Willie Ricks in June 1966. Like no other ideology before, the multiform and ideologically diverse movement shaped black consciousness and identity and […]
Fernand Léger was born today on February 4 in 1881
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was born today on February 4, 1881, in Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, where his father raised cattle. Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897 to 1899, before moving in 1900 to Paris, and supported himself as an architectural draftsman. He was rejected at the École des Beaux-Arts, notwithstanding he attended […]
Artist Khaled Akil vows not to seek US visa under Trump
A Syrian artist whose work about the war in his country has captured the world’s imagination has vowed not to apply for a United States visa until President Donald Trump is out of power. Khaled Akil’s latest project is being exhibited from Tuesday at California’s Stanford University. Under Trump’s recent executive order, which suspends travel for […]
Opening at Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street
2 Feb – 1 Apr 2017, Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street Opening: Thursday 2 February 2017, 6 – 8 pm ‘Between the space of nothing and the action of something, everything is possible’ – Douglas Dreishpoon New York… Beginning 2 February 2017, Hauser & Wirth will present ‘Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947 – 1962,’ […]
Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair 2017
Wednesday 8 – Sunday 12 of February 2017 World Trade Center Rotterdam Beursplein 37 3011 AA, Rotterdam The Netherlands The 6th edition of Rotterdam Contemporary art fair will take place at the World Trade Center in Rotterdam. The fair will be held during the Rotterdam Art Week together with Art Rotterdam and other venues, creating the biggest art […]
U.S. Pavilion Features New Work by Mark Bradford
U.S. PAVILION AT LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 57TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION TO FEATURE TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY WITH NEW WORK BY MARK BRADFORD PROJECT WILL INCLUDE MULTI-YEAR COLLABORATION BETWEEN BRADFORD AND VENICE SOCIAL COOPERATIVE, RIO TERÀ DEI PENSIERI BALTIMORE, MD, January 25, 2017 – The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and The Baltimore Museum […]
Lichtundfire’s “SPORTSVERGNÜGEN” Group Show curated by D. Dominick Lombardi and Augustus Goertz
Artists Working in Various Media Inspired by Team Sports With work by Gennadi Barbush, Ryan Cronin, Chris Dimino, Don Doe, Cary Leibowitz (Candyass), D.Dominick Lombardi, Ray Materson, Tony Petracca, Tyson Reeder, Karen Shaw, Lewis Smith and Robert Yoder. On view till February 5th, 2017 In Memory of the Players and the Staff of the Brazilian […]
Louise Bourgeois: Holograms at Cheim & Read
Cheim & Read is pleased to present Louise Bourgeois: Holograms, the first exhibition devoted exclusively to this little-known aspect of the artist’s long, groundbreaking career. In 1998 Bourgeois was approached by C-Project, a New York-based fine arts holographic studio (the C stands for the speed of light) dedicated to exploring the creative potential of […]
