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Institute of International Visual Arts: Soft Season: The Danger Museum
DM aims to challenge the core values of the art institution, hoping to fill the gaps where the art museum fails. DM sets up dynamic networks and systems of exchange between artists, thereby tackling the inertia of the official institution. DM's pr...
Gone Tomorrow Gallery: Sumiko Seki: The Fair and the Thorns
Her homesickness can be felt in her paintings that carefully blend motifs based upon her childhood in Japan – and her family’s religious background as Buddhists. Works such as Wooden Horse show decapitated dolls reminiscent of childhood drawings....
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art: Humid
Humid - as an attitude rather than a weather condition - refers to the
sometimes petulant, sultry, even sexy, feminine unconscious and its
physical manifestations. Humid is hot, sweaty, oppressive, uncomfortable,
but also languid, sensual and t...
Jendela Gallery: Clang. A Self-Portrait
In Sleeping, the first of the series, BeOn becomes a traffic-stopper, of people and vehicles. Defiantly falling asleep in the path of danger, BeOn waves a valiant but futile flag for people slow down their frantic pace of life in Singapore.
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Medusa Gallery: Maria Grigoriadi: Painting
"You cannot tell everything. According to a Thai myth, what you cannot tell you should shout inside the hollow of a tree, which you then seal with mud and dried grass. I seal them with white colour.
"Take up this process too enthusiastically...
Tate Liverpool: At Sea: Works in All Media that Examine the Sea
Artists such as Vija Celmins and Hiroshi Sugimoto see the sea as conducive to quiet
contemplation. For others, the sea evokes scenes of danger or disaster. Shipwrecks,
drownings and other tragedies are hauntingly alluded t...
Galerie Magda Danysz: Alex Angi : Solo Show
The colored dynamism in Alex Angi's work seems close to that
of Pop-art. He uses recycled materials that he transforms into
surprising art objects. In this way, he has become a ‘gold-
digger.’ From public trash, Angi recovers plastic and ind...
Alberto Peolo: One-man Show by Danish Artist Thorsten Kirchhoff
The film Blow Up provided the impetus for three reproductions of shots that the main character took of a couple in a park, unaware that they were being photographed and three photogrammes which perfectly illustrate his unsuccessful sentimental rel...
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art: Margaret Evangeline: The Confessions of Mlle. G.
Evangelines paintings are inspired by the lives of women who exhibited high visibility, power, or
strong desires and were historically marginalized and negated by their culture. For Evangeline
there is a danger associated with being a visible ...
Tate Liverpool: Rut Blees Luxemburg: Phantom
The photographs for Phantom have been taken in Dakar, capital of Senegal and
maritime centre of West Africa. The links between Liverpool and Dakar are
historically one of colonialism and the slave trade, but Dakar is now
considered a fashion an...
Elastic residence: New video works by Hayden Fowler and Grant Stevens from Sydney's Gallery Barry Keldoulis
The work‚s allusions to a complex political climate thus juxtaposes with the humorous and gawky performances of the rats as they execute the work's systematic logic. This playful contradiction is typical of Fowler's ironic but critically engaged ...
Newmark Gallery: The New Deco: AnnaMir, Ivy Jacobsen and Paula Evers
Eschewing the modern prop of shock value imagery or style, which immediately conveys an aura of profundity, these artists masterfully create artistic meaning with a full and joyous paean to the beauty of the chosen image. Art that is dazzling to...
Tate Britian: Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean trained as a painter and now works in a variety of media, including drawing, photography and sound, but is best known for her 16mm films, of which she has made seventeen to date. The specific qualities associated with film making are o...
Townhouse Gallery / Factory Space: Portraits of Ashoura: Nermine Hammam
Hammam’s pieces offer multiple readings, their significance coming in and out of focus respectively, based on the viewer’s ability or willingness to contextualize the images within the historical, social, political and religious traditions of Naba...
De Appel: ON PATROL: Artists Explore (In)Security
The exhibition ON PATROL will be officially opened on Friday 28 January at 7.30 p.m. by Boris Dittrich, chairman of the D66 Parliamentary party.
Participating artists:
Marc Bijl, Sophie Calle, Ergin Cavusoglu, Paul Chan, Claudia Cristovao, ...
Centraal Museum: Pieter Saenredam, the Utrecht work
The finest architectural paintings of the seventeenth
century
In 1636 Sae...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Johannes Larsen and Bruno Liljefors: Life in Nature
Both Johannes Larsen and Bruno Liljefors were hunters and outdoorsmen, and they regarded man as a constituent element of nature. Unlike their predecessors at the Academy, they portrayed nature without any religious significance or moral attitude. ...
Eltham Wiregrass Gallery: Paradise Lost, Found: Karin Ryan, Philip Adams and Janice McBride
Janice McBride images are most symbolic and abstract of all. She uses a combination of monoprints, collages, painting and sanding to create her ephemeral characters, suspended in their own dreamy reality. Sharp edges and bright colours sit nicely ...
Art Scene China: Broken Memories: A solo-exhibition by Xue Jiye
The title of the exhibition, Broken Memories, refers to the past, but more importantly it is about our formulation of the past in our memories. It is about the way the human mind constructs, deconstructs and reconstructs events over time. The past...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution
Certain photographs transcend the circumstances of their making. They
become emblematic of an era, of a generation, or of a geographic place.
Dorothea Lange’s 1936 photograph Migrant Mother has attained mythic status
and be...
ARTworkSF - Mezzanine Gallery: (sub)text : coded and deconstructed language
Eric Bohr expands comprehension of words and phrases by exploring phonetics and the visual aspect of the written word. The canvas becomes Eric's playground for playing with consonant and vowel sounds, phrases and letters. The isolation of a word...
Sara Tecchia Roma New York: Christina McPhee: La Conchita Mon Amour
For the past 18 months, McPhee has been visiting La Conchita, taking photographs of the disaster's vernacular shrines to the dead on the site of the mudslide--chain link barriers a rubble of mud, destroyed house frames, roofs, retaining walls, pla...
Wall Street Viewing Room: 52 Artists We Like: group show
Highlights of the show include:
-A painting from Lisa Krivacka's 'Most Likely to Succeed' series, which stars high school students from Clarksville,
TN in the 1970's, and which addresses the awkward time that is the cusp of ad...
Irvine Contemporary: Kerry Skarbakka : The Struggle to Right Oneself: A Survey AND Sebastian Martorana : Uncommissioned Memorials
In Kerry Skarbakka's ongoing project, the artist stages himself in scenes of losing balance and control, especially at a crucial tipping point, the moment when balance and equilibrium are lost and a fall begins.
His arresting photographs app...
Red Gate Gallery: Tan Ping New Works
Carolyn Fitzpatrick in May 2000 wrote the following essay about Tan Ping's etchings.
Purity is the word that springs to mind when one looks, really looks, at a Tan Ping etching. Pure in the sense that they are unsullied, untainted with spur...
Queens Museum of Art: Joan Jonas: Five Works
Joan Jonas (b. 1936) is one of the most important women artists to emerge from the late 1960s and 1970s. Working in New York as a sculptor, by 1968 she moved into what was then considered new territory – mixing performance with props and mediated ...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: Gloriana! The Golden Legend of Elizabeth I
I am no lover of pompous title, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have told
her ladies-in-waiting, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a
line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of
my reign, the reformat...
Wolfsburg Museum: L'Esprit de Tinguely
After the retrospective at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 1987 the
exhibition L'Esprit de Tinguely is the first major showing of Tinguely's
work since his death, with the exception of the permanent collection
on display at the
Museum of Modern Art: Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now
Founded in Zurich in 1984, the contemporary art journal Parkett has taken an innovative approach to magazine publishing. For each volume, artists are chosen to collaborate in the publishing process: they suggest authors to write on their work, con...
Kunsthalle Zurich: Terence Koh
Koh generates aspects of seduction and irritation – a kind of dark Romanticism hovers over all his works. His “contaminations" of cultural practice are achieved using the principle of purity underlying modern aesthetics: either completely in white...
Annenberg Space for Photography: L8S ANG3LES: 8 LA-based Master Photographers Plus 3 From LA Times
Located on the former site of the Shubert Theater, the Photography Space is a 10,000 square foot facility. The dynamic exhibition space will feature, along with a traditional print gallery, a state-of-the-art digital presentation system capable o...
City Gallery Wellington, Hirschfeld Gallery: Vanity Case: 9 Wellington Artists and Designers
As you enter Vanity Case, two vignette portraits by photographer Louise Clifton invoke the tradition of fashion photography and the way in which models engage the viewer usually for a very specific purpose: to promote and sell a particular ...
BAWAG Foundation: Elke Krystufek: The Rich Visit the Poor, the Poor Visit the Rich
Artists, gallery owners,
collectors, curators - Krystufek falls back on the entire art scene yakuza,
making them appear against a backdrop of slums and palaces, in chic salons
and trashy saloons, in pink Cadillacs, designer chairs, and high-gra...
Museum of Modern Art: Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings
Ms. Figura states: "Although Freud‚s etchings speak for themselves in terms of their quality and strength, this aspect of his work remains relatively little known as compared with his paintings. This exhibition re veals the integral and vitally i...
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