Valentina Battler Form & Fancy fordPROJECT New York April 17 - June 1, 2012 Form and Fancy explores the extent of human emotion through artistic representation of figure and form. Combining traditional and contemporary Chinese Ink Painting techniques, Battler’s new works on Yupo paper reflect an impressionistic style. Her additional works on Xuan paper are rooted in the Yin Yang philosophy’s principle of…
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Spring Has Sprung! And the flowers can be found at THE NEW MUSEUM STORE (235 Bowery, NYC) The ever-blossoming, flower-themed videos Pink Narcissus and Floralwall are now available as limited edition digital art packages in the New Museum bookstore. These high-quality HD movies are delivered on a portable USB flash drive and hand-packaged in a…
Fine artist Jane McAdam Freud will present her latest body of work entitled Family Matters in a solo exhibition at Gazelli Art House. From 24 April – 29 May 2012, McAdam Freud will display an array of personal sculptures and drawings that focus on her familial relationships and the broader concept of family at the new Dover Street…
Taryn Simon A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters MoMA New York May 2 – September 3, 2012 This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon's (b. 1975, New York) photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters. The work was produced over a four-year period (2008–11), during which the artist travelled around…
For their first gallery exhibition in New York since THE PERVERSIVE PICTURES, 2004, Lehmann Maupin and Sonnabend present LONDON PICTURES. These monumental pictures with titles such as “ARRESTED”, “ATTACKED STRAIGHT”, “BOMB”, “LOVER”, “MISSING”, “SUICIDE”, take their names from newspaper posters and as a whole, portray the sorrow and humanity of western city life. Gilbert & George have described…
Andy Denzler Gwangju Museum of Art Korea April 25 - May 27, 2012
Jean Lowe Hey Sexy Quint Gallery New York April 21 - May 26, 2012 Quint Contemporary Art (QCA) is very pleased to announce a solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Jean Lowe. This is the seventh solo exhibition for Lowe at QCA. The exhibition will open with a public reception on Saturday, April 21st from 6…
Tim Youd / Josef Beuys Coagula Curatorial Los Angeles April 21 - June 3 2012 COAGULA CURATORIAL is located in the historic Chung King Road of contemporary art galleries in Downtown L.A.'s Chinatown, the gallery affirms Downtown as a viable location for the creative industries that drive the Los Angeles economy. Coagula Art Journal was first published in…
Jordan Sullivan Roadsongs Clic Gallery New York April 17 - May 26, 2012 Large-scale landscape photographs shot in Texas, California, and New Mexico, by New York based artist Jordan Sullivan. Clic Gallery 255 Centre Street New York, NY
Thomas Kiesewetter Midnight Sky Almine Rech Gallery Brussels April 19 - May 12, 2012 Put into orbit in the immaculate white sky of the Almine Rech Gallery in Brussels, Thomas Kiesewetter’s wall sculptures draw us into another dimension of his universe. His new constellation regroups a set of sculptures presented in the vertical vaults of…
International Arts Movement presents The Other Side, a collection of 3 photographic series by Monica Lozano, curated by Sergio Arribas and Dhruv Malhotra. Lozano was raised in Ciudad Juarez Mexico which today is considered to be one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Her work is inspired by real stories of people's courage, determination and…
Jonas Mekas April 18 - 22, 2012 James Fuentes New York James Fuentes presented a solo presentation at the inaugural NADA Cologne by Jonas Mekas (Born, Semeniškiai, Lithuania, 1922, Lives and Works in New York). A single monitor work entitled "World Trade Center Haikus", 2010, and four monitor work entitled "Destruction Quartet", 2009 were presented. The Destruction Quartet…
Peter Tuney Clic Gallery New York March 1 - 25, 2012 The Untitled Magazine went to check out the book signing for “Skull Session” with multimedia artist & "art world legend" Peter Tunney. Peter's skull works will be at the gallery on view until March 25th. In the latter half of the 2000s, skull iconography experienced…
Thomas Demand The Dailies Sprüth Magers London April 14 - May 19, 2012 Demand’s photography has long focussed on detailed re-enactments of specific and familiar places, public or private sites often loaded with social and political meanings. The settings are made with paper and card that he photographs as the basis for his finished artworks.…
Building Stories Pilar Corrias London April 14 - May 18, 2012 In Franz Kafka’s 1924 short story A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler), a clown chooses starvation as a way of life for his art, and thereby meets his death. His belief in fasting is almost magical, becoming an obsession and fascination that grips his life…
PROLEGOMENA April 7- 28, 2012 Jack Hanley Gallery New York Lindsay Benedict & Roberto Fassone David Brooks David Cordero Buster Graybill Corin Hewitt Josh Tonsfeldt Judy Natal According to a standard understanding of perception, one is able to comprehend the world only as one sees it, within the restraints or limits of a particularly…
At Art Cologne 2012 Paradise Row will feature works by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Shezad Dawood and Barry Reigate. Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin (Broomberg, Johanesburg b.1970 & Chanarin, London b. 1971) interrogate the documentary and ethnographic traditions of photography with critical rigour. Shezad Dawood's (London, 1974) practice, pursued through the mediums of film, sculpture and…
Lamya Gargash, representative of the inaugural UAE Pavilion during the 2009 Venice Biennale, unveils a new body of work that addresses societal notions of beauty, intimate perceptions of self and identity through a portrait series at The Third Line. Influenced by such artists as Cindy Sherman, the photographs aspire to raise challenging and important questions about self-reflection and…
Alan Michael. Entitled Back to the Docks April 19 - May 25, 2012. Marc Jancous Contemporary Since the late 1990s, Michael’s work has appropriated not only images but also techniques of representation from a wide range of sources, including the realms of fashion, cinema, advertising, and design, as well as art history. By juxtaposing…
Liu Wei Foreign Almine Rech Gallery Paris April 14 - May 16, 2012 Born in Beijing in 1972, Liu Wei was the subject in 2011 of a solo exhibition entitled Trilogy at the Minsheng Art Museum of Shanghai, and in that same year he took part in the exhibition Liu Wei and Ai Weiwei at the…