[slidepress gallery='royal-academy-summer-exhibition-preview-party'] On 30 May 2012 the Royal Academy of Arts hosted its annual Summer Exhibition Preview Party. The event marks the official opening of the Summer Exhibition and offers collectors the opportunity to preview the variety of artworks by both renowned and undiscovered artists, all available to purchase before the official Buyers Day. This…
Month: May 2012
THE UNTITLED MAGAZINE & THE DOUBLE SEVEN AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2012 On May 21st, 2012 The Untitled Magazine in collaboration with The Double Seven of New York City celebrated Cannes Film Festival with a blow-out event at The legendary VIP Rooms at 50 Boulevard de la Croisette in Cannes, France. During the festival the…
2012 Whitney Art Party, taking place at Skylight Soho (275 Hudson Street) on Wednesday, June 6th from 9PM to 1AM. This year’s Art Party will feature music by Japanster and performances by artists Kalup Linzy and iona real brown. In support of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP), the evening will also feature a silent auction of 46 works, including pieces by 2012 Whitney Biennal artists, All…
James Franco's latest venture into the art world is a site-specific installation/exhibition, in association with L.A.'s MOCA for the Venice Biennale. The show, called Rebel, is Franco's homage to the 1955 movie Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. The show contains work from artists such as Douglas Gordon, Harmony Korine, Damon and Paul McCarthy, Ed Ruscha and Aaron…
Tomas Saraceno Tanya Bonakdar Gallery - New York June 2 - July 27, 2012 Coinciding with the artist's current major commission on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's roof, the gallery is pleased to present an important selection of sculpture and installation by Tomas Saraceno. Carefully installed throughout the downstairs gallery space, the artist's sprawling biospheres…
Anne Koch exhibit Allegra La Viola Gallery - New York June 5 - July 6, 2012 During the five week run of the exhibition, a performer will be in situ in the gallery, consuming food on a continuous basis. The foods change on a weekly basis. The performances are: eat (cheeseburger), eat (grapes), eat (spaghetti), eat (waffles), and…
Fresh Bred Group Exhibition Quint Contemporary Art - La Jolla June 2- July 14, 2012 FRESH BRED is a look at a new generation of artists whose work stems from Conceptual Art, Light and Space, Abstract Expressionism and Performance Art in a variety of media that offer fresh takes on old styles and modes of working.…
David Altmejd Stuart Shave/Modern Art - London May 26 - June 23 David Altmejd’s work iterates fantastical ideas of spirited bodies. He taps into languages abstracted from architecture, ornament, and naturalistic figuration in the making of sculptures which are, for the artist, whole worlds in which he can lose himself in imaginative fantasises of making and open-ended…
Changing States of Matter ( Group exhibit ) Brand New Gallery - New York May 31 - July 28, 2012 Brand New Gallery is delighted to present the group exhibition Changing states of matter, a show that sets out to reveal the processes behind artistic creation, processes that involve a ‘hypothetical production’ of…
Waldemar Zimbelmann Meyer Reigger - Berlin June 1 - July 28 Waldemar Zimbelmann´s pictures shift between painting and drawing, but it is the character of drawing that is essential in the shaping of his works. Occasionally starting out with personal or anonymous photographs, the artist develops a subtle, sensitive visual language, which brings…
Susan Hiller Exhibit dOCUMENTA 13 June 9 - September 16 For dOCUMENTA 13 Hiller has devised a sculptural presentation of her personal collection of songs relating to political freedom, and the perennial human desire for justice and peace. Five Wurlitzer jukeboxes situated in different bars or cafes around the town of Kassel, and in a specially created…
Jannis Varelas Exhibition May 30 - September 3, 2012 CAC Cincinnati Jannis Varelas’ work explores the contrast between appearance and reality and exposes the increasingly theatrical nature of our lives. Sometimes ironic and caustic, sometimes purposefully saccharine, his depiction of the human condition and the construction of dystopias, critically comments on the changing relation of…
The Intouchables is the French film directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano that has taken France by storm. Not only did the film achieve the second highest box office gross of all time in France, but it was voted as the cultural event of 2011 by 52% of the population in a poll by Fnac, Le Parisien, and…
Since Brigitte Bardot became an international six symbol in the early sixties, she has always inspired fashion designers. But it wasn't until 2012 that the French cinema icon got her very own eponymous clothing line. Last July, the 77-year-old actress signed a licensing agreement with the company Ternay, along with other investors, allowing her name…
The International Center of Photography in New York is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century, Gordon Parks. Parks grew up in rural Kansas, buying a camera at the age of fourteen after seeing photos of migrant workers in a magazine. Parks moved to…
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York has just opened the second installment of their exhibit, Fashion A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT. Much like Part One of the exhibit, originally titled The Great Designers, the show focuses on some of the biggest icons in European fashion,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdEhvuNxV8 On Thursday, May 17th, at the age of 63, five-time Grammy award winner Donna Summer, lovingly nicknamed "The Queen of Disco," passed away in her home in Key West, Florida after a long battle with lung cancer. Donna Summer was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines to a devout Christian household in Boston in 1948. Summer began singing as…
On May 20th, the multimedia performance artist, K8 Hardy, probably best known for her zine FashionFashion, put on her Untitled Runway Show at the Whitney Museum in New York. Hardy put together over thirty looks as part of her exhibition for the 2012 Biennial. The exhibition piece had all the makings of any standard runway show, makeup…
Louis Vuitton has just announced their latest collaboration with 82-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, known for putting her trademark polka dots on everything, including cars, tree trunks, and herself. The collaboration will be unveiled on July 10, hitting stores just in time for Kusama's major retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York. According to…
Scope Basel is a renowned art fair that brings together the hottest names in emerging artistic talents and gives them an international platform on which to showcase their work and network with seasoned professionals who work in every aspect of art. The festival has had over 45 events internationally in the past decade alone. Scope puts work…