RECENT POSTS IN ART
Art | July 5, 2020
“Human Territoriality” is a selection of Roger Eberhard’s photographs of former borders, around the globe and down through the course of human history. Some of these border lines have shifted over time, by only a few hundred meters or much more, due to climate change or man-made changes in the landscape, others have vanished with the fall of mighty empires on either side. Read more
Art | June 24, 2020
The Kumu Art Museum hosts the exhibition Vello Vinn: Interreflections. The largest ever retrospective of the works of one of the most original Estonian graphic artists showcases the versatility and integrity of his oeuvre, displaying the imaginative imagery in Vinn’s prints, bookplates, illustrations and poster designs. The exhibition includes works by six younger artists who interact with Vello Vinn’s oeuvre through the means contemporary art. Read more
Art | June 21, 2020
The Pattern Room at Collezione Maramotti will be housing Two Thoughts, a solo show by Svenja Deininger that brings together a series of new paintings specifically conceived for this project; they will be in dialogue with four works from the 1920s by Polish painter Władysław Strzemiński, on loan from Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. Read more
Art | June 18, 2020
In February 2020, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Francis Bacon: Late Paintings. Organized by the Centre Pompidou, where it debuted in September 2019, this is the first in-depth museum consideration of Bacon's production in his final decades, and the first museum exhibition of the artist’s work to be seen in the U.S. since the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2009 retrospective in New York. The exhibition is on view in Houston from February 23 through May 25, 2020. Read more
Art | June 15, 2020
The Gropius Bau presents the first mid-career survey in Europe by the artist Lee Mingwei (*1964, Taiwan). The exhibition 禮 Li, Gifts and Rituals proposes a new way of looking at the artist’s work: as an exploration of art’s ability to act as a transformative gift, rooted in the space of intimate experiences and encounters with others. Simultaneously Lee’s perspective encompasses the different cultures that inform his practice. This reading stems from one of Lee’s key influences, the Confucian principle of li (禮), a multifaceted term that includes the ideas of rites, rituals, gifts and rules of propriety. Li is a philosophical framework for human behaviour. Read more
Art | June 14, 2020
From February 13 to July 5, 2020, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents “Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo,” a major survey devoted to the women artists of Surrealism. Goddess, she-devil, doll, fetish, child-woman or wonderful dream creature - in various guises, women were the central subject of male Surrealist fantasies. Women artists initially found their way into the circle surrounding André Breton, the founder of the Surrealist group, as companions or models. Yet they quickly broke out of those traditional roles and confidently created independent work. Read more
Art | June 10, 2020
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Olafur Eliasson: In real life, a survey of the career of Olafur Eliasson (1967), one of today’s most prominent artists. Through around 30 works created between 1990 and 2020 – including sculptures, photographs, paintings, and installations – the exhibition challenges the way we navigate and perceive our environment, leading us to reflect on the urgent issues of today. Read more
Art | June 9, 2020
“Meditations in an Emergency” is the first exhibition to open in 2020 at UCCA Beijing, bringing together 26 Chinese and international artists reflecting on the role of art during a time of crisis. From May 21 to August 30, 2020, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents the group exhibition “Meditations in an Emergency.” The exhibition emerges in the wake of the pandemic which has created the first truly global moment of the twenty-first century. As it marks UCCA’s reopening after the longest closure in its history, since late January, the exhibition looks to art as a source of solace, reflection, and solidarity. Read more
Art | June 8, 2020
From 1 June to 1 November 2020, Palazzo Strozzi is pleased to present Tomás Saraceno. Aria, a major exhibition curated by Arturo Galansino devoted to one of the world's most original and visionary contemporary artists whose multi‐disciplinary practice encompasses art, social and life sciences. Read more
Art | June 6, 2020
The Museum of Modern Art presents Neri Oxman: Material Ecology, an exhibition featuring the work of architect, designer, and inventor Neri Oxman, on view from February 22. The exhibition includes seven major projects that Oxman has created in the course of her 20-year career. Read more
Art | June 6, 2020
Sydney, Australia: The Biennale of Sydney announced today that NIRIN, its 22nd edition, will be reopening from 16 June, with some venues opening from 1 June 2020. Following an announcement by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian that museums and galleries will be permitted to reopen in June, the Biennale of Sydney rallied partner arts organisations to extend the exhibition period for NIRIN. Read more
Art | June 3, 2020
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the exhibition Countryside, The Future, organized in collaboration with architect Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal. Read more
Art | May 25, 2020
This exhibition endeavors to re-examine drawing’s potential in a number of different contexts through expression, varied in kind, that employs line as a core medium of exploration. Featured are works that demonstrate contemporary approaches to drawing. Read more
Art | May 22, 2020
Modernity as the age of technical progress is characterised mainly by movement and velocity, which have also found multiple manifestations in art. At the same time, a longing for deceleration has evolved, which to this day expresses itself in ever new images of calm and quiet. Especially in times of ever increasing acceleration such as ours, the need for peace and repose seems particularly pronounced. Read more
Art | May 18, 2020
From 3 July to 11 October 2020 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents a major themed exhibition on the 1920s: ‘Smoke and mirrors. The Roaring Twenties. From Josephine Baker to Thomas Ruff’. For the first time since the 1970s, an art exhibition sets up a transnational dialogue between Bauhaus, Dada, New Objectivity and the design and architecture icons of modernism. Read more
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
