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Art | May 16, 2020
Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Montefeltro in 1926, he spent his childhood and education in Pesaro. He lives and works in Milan since 1954. His works from the 1950s are high-reliefs where a unique and previously unknown sculptural 'writing' emerged, variously interpreted by the most important critics. In the early 1960s he turned to three-dimensional work and focused his research into the solid geometric form: spheres, discs, pyramids, cones, columns, cubes - all in burnished bronze - are lacerated, corroded, excavated in their depths, with the intention of destroying their perfection and discovering the mystery closed within. Read more
Art | May 14, 2020
Devised and organized by Museo Picasso Málaga and Fundación Juan March, this exhibition looks at ways of visually narrating the history of art, or in other words, representing art history by using images and/or words as opposed to the classical and prevalent academic method involving lengthy texts. Read more
Art | May 8, 2020
The MAK exhibition "WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE" directs visitors' attention to the hitherto underappreciated women designers who significantly broadened the Wiener Werkstätte's creative spectrum. Read more
Art | May 7, 2020
Does art taste sweet, sour, bitter, salty or even umami? What role does our sense of taste play as an artistic material and in our social interactions? Museum Tinguely continues its series on the human senses in the arts that began with "Belle Haleine" (2015) and "Prière de toucher" (2016). The group exhibition "Amuse-bouche. The Taste of Art" (12 May - 26 July 2020) presents artworks by some forty-five international artists from the Baroque period to the present, all of which explore our sense of taste as a dimension of aesthetic perception. Read more
Art | May 4, 2020
Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise. Read more
Art | April 6, 2020
Olafur Eliasson's art is driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self. He strives to make the concerns of art relevant to society at large. Read more
Art | April 2, 2020
Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1955. He studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1976. Read more
Art | March 28, 2020
The exhibition The Magritte Machine at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is the first retrospective on René Magritte (1898-1967) to be held in Madrid since the event organised by the Fundación Juan March in 1989. After its Madrid showing it will travel to the CaixaForum in Barcelona. Read more
Art | March 26, 2020
ZERO is a new introductory gallery and immersive optical device that will locate visitors as they begin their experience in the Museum's lobby. ZERO welcomes all guests with a sensory experience that provides insight into the urban history of the Bilbao region, and offers a new approach to Frank O. Gehry's building as well as to the Permanent Collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Read more
Art | March 22, 2020
On Monday 11 May 2020, Tate Modern will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its opening. The day will feature a dedicated programme of displays and performances across the museum - including the return of Louise Bourgeois' iconic giant spider - as well as the opening of a special exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Read more
Art | March 18, 2020
The British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (b. 1962) is one of Great Britain’s most important and versatile artists. His work explores the legacy of Western colonialism whose impact is still evident today. Shonibare is internationally known for installations featuring life-size, headless figures in historical costumes tailored from his trademark material the brightly colored Dutch wax batik fabric. Read more
Art | March 15, 2020
She reconfigures boundary materials - fencing, plastic, glass, sheetrock - to expand and explore the space between inside and outside, sculptural and drawing. Read more
Art | March 12, 2020
The radical, inventive art of Jasper Johns (b. 1930) continues to influence today’s artists like few others. In an unprecedented collaboration, the Whitney and the Philadelphia Museum of Art will stage a simultaneous retrospective-the largest of Johns’s seven-decade career-that offers a fresh take on the living legend. Read more
Art | March 5, 2020
This spring, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents a solo exhibition by the celebrated Los Angeles-based artist Christina Quarles. Quarles' colorful figurative paintings are filled with a sensual labyrinth of bending and twisting limbs and faces merging with ambiguous objects and abstract patterns. Her paintings confront themes of racial and sexual identities, gender, and queerness, as well as the pleasures and pressures of the social realm. Read more
Art | March 5, 2020
Ongoing exhibition since March 1st, 2018, presents a comprehensive panorama on the artistic practice of 12 artists associated with the Arte Povera movement: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio. Read more
Art | March 2, 2020
"Urban Mapping: Public Space Through the Lens of Contemporary Iranian Artists" shines a light on aspects of the Iranian experience normally hidden from the outside world by focusing on public and private spaces. Read more
Art | March 1, 2020
Filthy Lucre is an immersive installation by contemporary American artist Darren Waterston, presenting a detailed reimagining of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room - the sumptuous 19th-century dining room once housed just a stone’s throw away from the V&A and now installed at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Waterston has faithfully recreated each of the room’s individual elements with a twist, with the installation revealing a magnificent ruin crumbling under the weight of material decadence and the egos of those involved in its creation. Read more
Art | February 29, 2020
The exhibition "Our World Is Burning" offers a committed view of contemporary creation from the Arabian Gulf, where wars and diplomatic tensions have constantly determined the history of the early 21st century. Its title explicitly refers to the human dramas created by the successive conflicts in this region. "Our World Is Burning" also rings out like an alarm at a time when political vicissitudes are being added to by ecological catastrophes, embodied by massive destructive forest fires, from Amazonia to Siberia, via California and Australia, which bear witness to global warming. We are now "facing Gaia," to quote the title of Bruno Latour's book, facing its finitude. The world's commotions and instability are now perceived as being inexorable artifices created by mankind, swept away by its immoderation and omnipotence. Catastrophe is no longer a horizon for philosophical or aesthetic speculation, as Edmund Burke might have viewed it in the mid-18th century, during his quest for the sublime, when confronted with the troubles of the world. It is a reality. Read more
Art | February 27, 2020
Art Vancouver was founded in 2015 by the Vancouver Visual Art Foundation. This local non-profit works to promote local Vancouver and British Columbia artists both within their community and across the world. The Vancouver International Art Fair 2020 is a four-day event held April 16 -19 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Read more
Art | February 26, 2020
Modernity as the age of technical progress is characterised mainly by movement and velocity, which have also found multiple manifestations in art. Read more
Art | February 25, 2020
The exhibition brings together contemporary international artworks that revolve around these phenomena. Whether the loss of a loved one through separation or death, departing from cherished ideals and visions, or being deprived of one’s home and familiar surroundings – we all have to grapple with painful incidences of disappointment, failure and irreversible change at some point in our lives. Read more
Art | February 24, 2020
At a time when artificial intelligence is extending into all corners of modern life, the Centre Pompidou will, for the first time, be placing this phenomenon in the context of the history of neuroscience and neurocomputing with the exhibition 'Neurons, Simulated Intelligences'. Running from 26 February to 20 April 2020 as part of the fourth edition of the 'Mutations / Creations' series, the exhibition will highlight the ties between research by artists, architects, designers and musicians and the latest scientific and industrial advances. Read more
Art | February 24, 2020
Cosmic Garden by Sandra Cinto Ginza Maison Hermès “Le Forum”, Tokyo February 11 – May 10, 2020 Fondation d’entreprise Hermès is pleased to present Cosmic Garden, a solo exhibition by São Paulo, Brazil-based artist Sandra Cinto. Born in Brazil in 1968, Cinto has created numerous installations bearing relation to spaces, primarily consisting of drawings with […] Read more
Art | February 22, 2020
‘The Sun is My Only Ally’ is Charbel-joseph H. Boutros’ first solo exhibition in a Belgian museum. Born in Lebanon in 1981, the artist was raised in a country marked by civil war, an event that is not visualised in his work but has an indirect presence. Read more
Art | February 21, 2020
ARCOmadrid 2020, organised by IFEMA will hold its 39th edition from 26 February to 1 March. The event is stepping up its support for innovation and research and will be focused on the concept It’s Just a Matter of Time as its main theme, which will analyse artistic practices through the work of Félix González-Torres. Read more
Art | February 21, 2020
Christian Helwing: (B)east! Kunsthalle Krems, AustriaJuly 07 – November 11, 2020 The art of Christian Helwing grows out of a sensitive and precise reaction to existing spaces. He develops site-specific art in which he takes into consideration the formal, architectural, and historic parameters of the location. For the Dominikanerkirche Krems, Helwing designs an installation with […] Read more
Art | February 20, 2020
The inaugural exhibition, The Red Bean Grows in the South (December 15, 2019 – April 11, 2020), explores themes of war, politics, hope, and longing with large-scale and experiential works by acclaimed international artists Ai Weiwei, Georg Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Cai Guo-Qiang, Tracey Emin, Omer Fast, Anselm Kiefer, Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Christian Lemmerz, Paul McCarthy, Richard Mosse, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Alison Saar, Danh Vo, and Yu Hong. Read more
Art | February 17, 2020
"Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master" marks the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, in 1919 and features rare works by the groundbreaking 20th-century graphic designer Herbert Bayer. Read more
