After many years in which the tradition-rich Art Cologne was losing more and more of its importance, the world's oldest art fair not only seems to be back on the right track but is actually gaining momentum. Since Daniel Hug took...
Posted February 3, 2012 | 02/03/12 10:12 AM ET
Until recently, Paris-based Turkish artist Yüksel Arslan was almost unknown to a broader public. The Kunsthalle Zurich is now presenting for the first time a selection of over 200 works since 1959 outside of Turkey. The exhibition has its focus on...
Posted January 26, 2012 | 01/26/12 08:18 AM ET
The Singapore Art Museum currently presents two exhibitions that complement each other well. One shows contemporary Asian art from private collections around the world, the other has its focus on the young generation of artists living and working in Singapore.
Titled "The Collectors Show: Chimera," the first exhibition offers an...
Posted January 17, 2012 | 01/17/12 01:54 PM ET
Art Stage Singapore is an international art fair held annually in Singapore. The second edition of Art Stage Singapore takes place at the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre on 12 to 15 January 2012. Under the direction of former Art Basel director Lorenzo Rudolf, over 100 galleries take...
Posted January 1, 2012 | 01/01/12 09:28 AM ET
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity is the title of an exhibition at The Wolfsonian-FIU design museum in Miami Beach that has a look at French design from the 1940s to today. On display are furniture, industrial design and craft by some of the most celebrated French designers.
The show presents...
3 Comments | Posted December 28, 2011 | 12/28/11 11:52 AM ET
The Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden in Coral Gables, Florida is known for its spectacular tropical landscape. Several years ago, a visual art program began that attracts visitors to the park, with artists such as Dale Chihuly,
3 Comments | Posted December 15, 2011 | 12/15/11 03:04 PM ET
"Form is Process". "Mass Customization". "Infinite Infinities". "Number is All". "The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization... is no more". "Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off". This is...
Posted December 13, 2011 | 12/13/11 04:49 AM ET
Cores and Cutouts is Los Angeles-based artist Ruben Ochoa's first solo exhibition in Miami, Florida. For his show at Locust Projects he created a new site-specific installation using the building's substructure as source material.
Ruben Ochoa is known for using building materials such as concrete and steel. At Locust Projects...
Posted December 8, 2011 | 12/08/11 10:50 AM ET
For Design Miami 2011, Galerie VIVID of Rotterdam realized its second solo presentation with works by Studio Job. The main attraction of the presentation are five new unique pieces, Containers II. In this video, VIVID Gallery Co-Founder Aad Krol talks about Studio Job and their new works.
Studio Job's Containers...
Posted December 1, 2011 | 12/01/11 09:17 AM ET
This year, Art Basel Miami Beach celebrates its 10th edition. After a bumpy start (the first date was cancelled because of 9/11), the sister fair to Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland has proved to be a big success. Not only for the fair itself, but also for the cultural scene...
Posted November 20, 2011 | 11/20/11 11:18 AM ET
The group exhibition The Historical Box at the gallery Hauser & Wirth in Zürich, Switzerland presents American artists who are not widely known, but who's work is nevertheless seen as highly influential and relevant.
Curated by Mara McCarthy, director of Los Angeles based gallery
Posted November 11, 2011 | 11/11/11 03:35 AM ET
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist has some experience with unusual locations. She has been presenting her works in churches and on LED billboards, and her videos often emerge in unexpected places such as toilets, liquor bottles, and handbags. For her latest project for Fondazione Nicola...
Posted November 7, 2011 | 11/07/11 09:41 AM ET
Robert Breer is considered as one of the most groundbreaking and celebrated experimental filmmakers in history, a pioneer in avant-garde animation. The Museum Tinguely in Basel now shows the most comprehensive retrospective of this work to date. The solo exhibition presents the paintings, sculptures and films of the American artist,...
Posted October 30, 2011 | 10/30/11 01:45 PM ET
Those who visit the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin these days might be a little confused by the sign above the entrance. What is Almech? Well, this is the name of the company of Polish artist Paweł Althamer's father Adam Althamer.
For his Deutsche Guggenheim commission, Paweł Althamer relocated the factory...
Posted October 23, 2011 | 10/23/11 04:44 PM ET
The exhibition Kienholz. The Signs of the Times at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main presents the provocative and polarizing work of Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz. The show starts with early sculptures and installations by Edward Kienholz such as The Blue Wagon (1960), The Carnivore (1962), and The...
Posted October 17, 2011 | 10/17/11 04:16 AM ET
On the occasion of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Fondation Beyeler, the museum is showing the artist's famous sculpture Maman. This video documents the installation of Louise Bourgeois' giant spider sculpture in the garden of Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Basel, Switzerland). The video shows how the legs of the spider...
Posted October 13, 2011 | 10/13/11 05:46 PM ET
Frieze Art Fair has once again pitched their tents in Regent's Park in London for the 2011 edition. The fair features over 170 galleries from around the world. A curatorial program, including Frieze Projects, Talks, Film, and the Emdash Award, complements the Galleries section. Frieze Projects features works by Bik...
Posted October 11, 2011 | 10/11/11 07:08 AM ET
The twelfth commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London has been realized by the Berlin-based artist Tacita Dean. Dean conceived a piece that consists of an eleven-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a monolithic wall erected at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. The work is...
Posted October 9, 2011 | 10/09/11 09:38 AM ET
Zaha Hadid is one of the world's most popular architects and designers. The Iraqi-British architect created landmark buildings such as the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany; the Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck, Austria; the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion; the MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in...
Posted October 2, 2011 | 10/02/11 01:01 PM ET
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo is a New Media artist based in New York City. For the DUMBO Arts Festival 2011 he created an audio-visual installation that consists of 24 video mapped clocks. The audience can manipulate the clocks via a crank that speeds up or slows down the clocks. The exhibition space...

Posted February 7, 2012 | 02/07/12 05:28 PM ET