pAn Amsterdam is the Netherlands’ national art and antiques fair. This year the fair will celebrate its 20th edition on the 19th to 26th of November. Among the 114 exhibitors are nine Belgian and one German antique and art dealers. Patrick Berko of Berko Fine Paintings, Knokke-Heist of Brussels, an exhibitor since 1994, describes pAn […]

The Brighton Digital Festival is a month-long celebration of the creative talent in the UK’s most concentrated digital community. It pays homage to every element of the creative cluster from those developing computer art through to interactive designers, filmmakers, academics and technologists. Organised by digital development agency Wired Sussex, the festival in 2006 looks to […]

As is so often the case with cultural festivals and fairs, it’s the outsiders at Art Basel Miami that are generating the most buzz and interest of all. Along with Aqua, -scope and Pulse, NADA is one of the sub-fairs that is gaining a rapid momentum—it is proving to be just as inovative as the […]

Inspired Art Fair (IAF) provides an unparalleled platform for talented undiscovered artists to launch their creative careers. The Fair, which has nominated the Whitechapel Art Gallery as its chosen charity, is exceptional in that it is arranged by a non-profit organisation with the principal aim of showcasing contemporary artwork and of supporting practising independent artists. […]

It’s 5am on a bright Saturday morning and Ron and I are outfitting our motorcycles to prepare them for a ten day trip that will take us throughout the six New England States. Not many plans are made, just a road map, a hiking guide, and a general idea about our itinerary. I love road […]

In the last few years, three new independent art fairs were founded as a complementary program to the Kunstherbst Berlin (Art Autumn), the city’s annual fall celebration of the arts, with its traditional, well-established Art Forum Berlin. Berliner Liste, Berliner Kunstsalon and Preview Berlin are not meant as competitor programs to Art Forum Berlin, which […]

The Berliner Liste takes place in an old Electricity Transformer Building in the middle of the emerging art scene in Berlin, before this building was used as the home of the Vitra Design Museum. The location is jammed with a fresh offering of works by the most interesting artists from 45 international galleries. The Berliner […]

As the Toronto International Art Fair gears up for its seventh edition this November, it does so as a now-familiar marker on the art world’s cultural calendar, one that has built a sense of national community over the years. When the doors open for the Preview on November 9th and to the general public on […]

The Canary Islands are constantly on the news these days with reports of the continuous illegal, escorted and/or expected arrival of pateras, cayuco boats and canoes to its shores. These small boats—arriving crammed with Africans from the continent, mainly from the neighbouring and closest countries (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cape Verde) but also from distant nations […]

In contrast to some of the ubiquitous and overwhelmingly large-scale exhibitions of late, and the exigent nature of their ideologically-charged agendas, the 6th Biennale at Site Santa Fe running from July 9 through January, 2007, is innovative in light of its almost intimate scale, character and all-embracing scope of its curatorial aspiration. Curator Klaus Ottmann, […]