Horizontal Skyscraper in Shenzhen, China

This project in Shenzhen, China is a long mixed-use complex which includes office spaces, apartments, a hotel and even a public landscape. The concept of the design is to make the “building appears as if it were once floating on a higher sea that has now subsided; leaving the structure propped up high on eight legs.” Designed by Steven Holl.

Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World at the British Museum Highlights Discoveries

LONDON.- Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World highlights some of the most important archaeological discoveries from ancient Afghanistan and displays precious and unique pieces on loan from the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul currently undergoing reconstruction. The geographical position, overland connections and history ensured that it was a region which enjoyed close relations with its neighbours in Central Asia, Iran, India and China, as well as more distant cultures stretching as far as the Mediterranean. Crown (Tillya Tepe, Tomb [...]

Fitzroy Gallery Present Country, a Solo Exhibition of New Work by Gerry Judah

NEW YORK< NY.- Fitzroy Gallery presents Country, a solo exhibition of new work by London-based artist Gerry Judah, which is comprised of six large-scale monochrome paintings. This is Gerry Judah’s first exhibition in the United States and is on view until January 29 2011. Judah’s work is a direct response to landscapes of destruction and explores war, conflict, peace, natural disasters and devastation. Urban landscapes, constructed from buildings, complete with internal structures, communication wires and water towers are fixed onto [...]

Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

CHICAGO, IL.- Addressing the cultural shift toward a greater level of audience engagement and participation with works of art, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience on view through May 1, 2011. Featuring works drawn from the MCA Collection, Without You I’m Nothing charts the growth of this phenomenon over the past fifty years, where artists have increasingly involved the physical presence of their audience in the conception, production, and presentation of [...]

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Ends 2010 on a High Note with Liu Xiaodong’s Hometown Boy

BEIJING.- UCCA opened one of its last exhibitions of the year (Nov 17, 2010 – Feb 20, 2011), Hometown Boy by Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong. With 26 new oil paintings, over 200 pages of framed diary entries and an in-depth documentary film by famed Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Hometown Boy offers UCCA visitors an intimate and unprecedented look into the life and artistic practice of one of China’s most acclaimed artists. “The body of work that fills these three rooms…” [...]

Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramovic by Marco Anelli to Be Published by Aperture

NEW YORK, NY.- After becoming an internet sensation, Marco Anelli’s powerful portraits of sitters in the historic 2010 Marina Abramovic performance at the Museum of Modern Art are now collected and available in their entirety in the Aperture monograph, Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramovic. The centerpiece of The Artist is Present, the landmark retrospective of this pioneer of performance art’s oeuvre, was Abramovic herself, who sat silently in the museum’s atrium inviting visitors to take a seat across [...]

Belvedere Pays Tribute to Valie Export, a Pioneer of Media art, with Exhibition

VIENNA.- “A lying truth. Feedback feed. A recording is made of melting ice, and then played back in reverse on the monitor. The end of the recording = the beginning. Chunks of time. Flow of time. Time reversal. Time repetition. Time dissolution. Tension: time present / future / past.” From VALIE EXPORT’s concept for the video-sculpture ZEIT und GEGENZEIT (TIME and COUNTERTIME) (1973) To pay tribute to the importance and topical relevance of VALIE EXPORT’s art, the Belvedere and the LENTOS [...]

Photographs of Rediscovered Ephemera from Mental Patients at Frank Pictures Gallery

SANTA MONICA, CA.- Frank Pictures Gallery presents Lisa Rinzler’s THE GRASS IS GREEN, an exhibition of photographs of the rediscovered ephemera of generations of mental patients from the abandoned Willard Psychiatric Center in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. This is award-winning cinematographer Rinzler’s second show for gallerist Laurie Frank. Her exhibition of platinum Palladium prints premiered at Frank’s Still/Moving in 1999. The 14 large format chromogenic images in her latest exhibition, printed on sheets of glass, are [...]

John Warhola, Brother of Artist Andy Warhol and Museum Founder, Dies at Age 85

ROCHESTER, PA (AP).- John Warhola, the older brother who helped raise pop art icon Andy Warhol and later helped establish the Andy Warhol Museum in their native Pittsburgh, has died. He was 85. Warhola died on Christmas Eve after battling pneumonia at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, according to his son, Donald Warhola. The hospital is just a few blocks from the museum. Warhola lived in nearby New Sewickley. In this Aug. 9, 2002 file photo, the family of pop [...]

Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art on View at the Mattress Factory

PITTSBURGH, PA.- After decades of official silence, discussions of “race” and racism have become prominent in contemporary Cuba. Since the early 1990s, numerous cultural actors—musicians, writers, painters, performers, and academics—began to do something that was previously unthinkable: they began to denounce the persistence of racial discrimination in Cuban socialist society. These intellectuals have articulated the concerns of the Afro-Cuban youth, a population group that came to age in the early 1990s, precisely at the time that the socialist welfare state [...]

5th Salon du Dessin Contemporain will Explore Every Dimension of Contemporary Drawing

PARIS.- For its fifth year, the fair is assembled by nearly 80 European galleries, including around 10 in the new area highlighting young artists – DRAWING NOW I LA MEZZANINE. At the centre of the fair, Pierre Cornette de St Cyr will unveil his contemporary drawing “Museum without Walls”. For the first time, DRAWING NOW I NUMERIQUE will explore every dimension of contemporary drawing with a specialist program of contemporary drawing. Jason Mclean, POTC, 2009, inks and mixed media on [...]

First Comprehensive Overview of Gabriel von Max’s Work on View at Lenbachhaus

MUNICH.- Gabriel von Max (1840–1915), artist, Spiritist and Darwinist, was a remarkable character and in many ways a paradigmatic figure of the later nineteenth century. His main focus lay in the history of the development of mankind, its origins, essence and future. This exhibition in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich present the very first comprehensive overview of von Max’s entire work. Every facet of his rich imagination will be shown, from his artistic oeuvre to his interest in [...]

Art Nouveau and Art Deco from the collection of the Drents Museum on View in Gent

GENT.- Design Museum Gent is presenting the exhibition Art nouveau and art deco from the Netherlands. A selection from the collection of the Drents Museum in Assen until 27 February 2011. The Drents Museum in Assen houses one of the top five collections in the Netherlands in the field of art nouveau and art deco. Design museum Gent is displaying a representative selection from this collection. The exhibition presents among other things furniture, ceramics and silver by renowned Dutch designers [...]

Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin Showcases Its Collection with Rotating Exhibitions

BERLIN.- Since November 1996 the Hamburger Bahnhof has housed the National Gallery’s ‘Museum für Gegenwart’ or ‘Museum of Now’. Parallel to temporary exhibitions, the museum also presents works from its own important collections in a serious of rotating exhibitions on the 10,000 square metres of space at its disposal. Visitors take a look at the famous portrait of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong by American painter Andy Warhol at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Hamburger Bahnhof [...]

Guest Curator and Artist Explore the Collection of the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal

MONTREAL.- A guest curator and a guest artist have explored the reserve collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal to each present their Points of View on the Collection. From the 7,600 works, both have selected a group of some forty pieces presented in two brilliant exhibitions, respectively entitled Blue and Acts of Presence, which will be on view through March 27, 2011. Point of View on the Collection, inaugurated in 2009, is a series of theme-based exhibitions arising out [...]