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…
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…
Mark Dion at The Explorers Club New York Presented by Tenya Bonkadar Gallery Through August 2012 Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut. Dion's work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and…
Felix Kiessling Alexander Levy - Berlin June 1 - July 14, 2012 With the exhibition Tür und Stern the artist Felix Kiessling uses two media to dissolve our habitual ways of seeing things. The work shown is from the Vektor: Fotografien series, which is ongoing since 2011 and focuses on the irritation of spatial perception. Using over-sized…
VERNISSAGE OPENING collection photo traverso Trois générations Three generations Avec la présence de Gilles Traverso With the presence of Gilles Traverso MONDAY, MAY 21,2012 – 1.00-3.00 PM Eternelle Marilyn Monroe, effigie du Festival de Cannes 2012, à l’affiche au cinéma avec My Week With Marilyn, icône sexy, pétillante et émouvante, célébrée dans tous les magazines…
Igor Eškinja Right Constructions May 25th to July 28 th , 2012 ANGgaleria Barcelona After Fugaz (2008) and Nowheristan (2010), Igor Eškinja will open on May 25th, 2012 his third personal exhibition at ADNGalería, Right Constructions. The photographic compositions and installations displayed in Right Constructions transversally address the notion of construction as a creative principle and,…
House Project - Hreinn Fridfinnsson The Hafnarfjorour Centre of Culture & Fine Arts - Iceland May 12 - August 19 , 2012 House is an exhibition of new and older work by Icelandic artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson. The photographic series House Project, Second House andThird House are exhibited here together for the first time. The idea for the work House Project was…
Frieze Art Fair Randall’s Island Park,New York 4–7 May 2012 The New York fair will take a similar approach to that which has made Frieze Art Fair one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs, housed in a bespoke structure and located in a unique setting. Frieze New York will be held in Randall’s…
Courtney Love "And She's Not Even Pretty" Exhibit Fred Torres Collaborations New York Singer actress, and now artist, Courtney Love unveils her series of 45 original works of art at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York City. During Tuesday's press preview Courtney Love, cigarette in hand, explained that many of the works were created during…
Duffy Photographys Clic Gallery New York May 3 - June 3, 2012 Duffy, the first stateside retrospective from legendary fashion/commercial photographer Brian Duffy opens on May 3rd. The opening reception will take place from 6-8 pm the same day. The exhibition will run from May 3 - June 3, 2012. Brian Duffy, known simply as…
Mikel Glass "Fair" (Art) Amalgamated , New York April 21 - May 12 The exhibition, which is a commentary on the art market, will take place in two distinct spaces in the gallery. One space will be an active, manned broadcast studio - disguised as an artist’s studio. Separated by a glass and steel wall,…
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair presents PULSE New York 2012, a leading art fair dedicated to international contemporary art, from May 3-6, 2012, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. Currently in its seventh edition, PULSE New York will host sixty national and international galleries, presenting exhibitions that span across all media, from works on paper, painting, and sculpture,…
Zadik Zadikian New SculptureMaloney Fine Art Los Angeles April 21 - May 26, 2012 For the past three decades, since his arrival in the US in 1969, Zadik Zadikian has focused his attention on the creation of restrained, minimal forms, which straddle figuration and abstraction. Since his early gilded interior installations and minimal stacks of gold-leafed bricks,…
