LONGHOUSE RESERVE HONORS SEAN SCULLY AND BRUCE HORTEN AT ANNUAL “BEAUTOPIA” SUMMER BENEFIT LongHouse Reserve welcomed more than 300 guests to its annual Summer Benefit, “Beautopia,” on June 27, bringing together artists, collectors, philanthropists, and supporters in East Hampton for an evening celebrating the intersection of art, nature, and community. This year’s benefit honored…
Artist Ai Weiwei is known to resist injustice and inequality through his various art forms and activism. In his newest film that just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Human Flow, he does just that. Following, interacting, and interviewing the refugees from various locations from all over the world, Ai documents the turmoil that refugees…
Art Basel Switzerland is set to return this year from June 15-18 and is curated for the second year by Samuel Leuenberger, director and curator of SALTS in Birsfelden, Switzerland. This year’s show show has work from about 300 galleries that feature pieces of modern and contemporary art that include, paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, prints, video, multimedia…
Hansel & Gretel | Ai Weiwei, Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron Park Avenue Armory June 7 – August 6, 2017 Having been surveilled and put under house arrest by the Chinese Government, artist/activist Ai Weiwei is no stranger to Big Brother. Next month, he channels his experience into a new project. For the upcoming…
“Inside – Artists and Writers in Reading Prison” Artangel @ Reading Prison Forbury Road, Reading RG1 3HY, UK September 4 – October 30, 2016 This week UK organization, Artangel, opened a new exhibition at Reading Prison. “Inside – Artists and Writers in Reading Prison” features a plethora of high profile artists, all who are responding to…
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh June 4th – August 28th, 2016 The Warhol’s current exhibition explores Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei’s similarities in theme and their influence on contemporary culture, while showcasing the differences of the artists practices. Although the artists were contemporaries during the 1980s, Ai Weiwei had a…
Fire In Her Belly Maloney Fine Art 2680 South La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034 June 8 – July 20 Maloney Fine Art will be presenting Fire in Her Belly, an exhibition that revisits the role of censorship, surveillance and suppression of artists during the culture wars sparked by the AIDS crisis in the…
AI WEIWEI: NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHS 1983-1993 AT ASIA SOCIETY Over 200 guests gathered at the Asia Society on July 27th for a special viewing of the ‘much-heralded’ exhibition of photographic work by famed Chinese, activist artist Ai Weiwei. The show, entitled Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993, showcased more than 200 unpublished photographs which captured, in…
