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Grand Opening of the Whitney Museum
By Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez Pardo. The Empire State Building lights up with the colors of twelve of the most iconic artworks of its collection. Michelle Obama and Bill de Blasio cut the ribbon while famous established artists and high end brands such as Audi and Tiffany & Co. contend to be the first in welcoming […]
Muerner Marioni mirrors the Artifact
At the heart of the Lower East Side blooms the Orchard Street art district with colorful vivacity. More galleries are moving into and the street breathes with fresh vegetation and renewed creativity. It’s now an area where healthy pedestrians outnumber road traffic, street art abounds, and storefronts in primary colors invite to observe the action […]
From The Ruins… 601 Artspace
From The Ruins… Curated by Jane Ursula Harris May 8 – September 19, 2015 Opening reception: Friday, May 8, 6-9pm Upcoming M Lamar: Thursday, May 21. Reception & extended viewing hours 6-7pm with 7pm performance. Michael Ashkin Abigail DeVille William Eggleston LaToya Ruby Frazier Christian Holstad Jennifer & Kevin McCoy Luther Price Julie Schenkelberg Jane […]
“SHE” by VALYA – Being born and living in bloodshed Ukrainian nation…
“SHE” by VALYA: VISUAL REFLECTIONS ABOUT FEMININITY During wartime, when so many Ukrainians, including artists, are moving off the country, only the most persuasive artworks and exhibition projects are able to overcome a negative tendency of intellectual migration in order to help the developing and struggling community on the very eastern edge of Europe to […]
“Sommerfreuden“ (“Summer Pleasures”) at the Vienna Ringturm
On its 60th birthday, the Ringturm is attracting the attention of the international art scene. For the eighth time, Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein will wrap the Ringturm – this year with the work “Sommerfreuden“ (“Summer Pleasures”) by Croatian artist Tanja Deman. (Vienna, 11 May 2015) Today, work is set to start on the façade of the […]
Chris Burden: “My God, are they going to leave me here to die?”, 1975
At 8:20 p.m., the body artist Chris Burden entered a large gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art, did not look at his audience of 400 or more, set a clock for midnight, and lay down on the floor beneath a large sheet of plate glass that was angled against the wall. So began on […]
Manuella Muerner Marioni at Artfiact Gallery
ARTIFACT GALLERY New York City presents MANUELLA MUERNER MARIONI May 13- 31, 2015 / Opening Reception: Wednesday May 13, 2015 at 6 p.m. You and your friends are cordially invited !!! The artist will be present at the Opening Reception – Looking forward to see you :-)) Adress Gallery: ARTIFACT, 84 Orchard Street, New York 10002, […]
56th Venice Biennale Art Activism
Gulf Labor is an active participant in the 2015 Venice Biennale’s central exhibition, All the World’s Futures, which is curated by Okwui Enwezor. They are a coalition of artists, writers, architects, curators, and political cultural advocates. The group staged a series of protests dedicated to its investigations of labor conditions in the Persian Gulf: May 8, 2015, […]
Museum of Modern Electronic Music – is scheduled to open in 2017
Techno museum to open in Frankfurt “Music is the key to technology,” Brian Eno once said. And true to this maxim, Frankfurt is set to become the home of Germany’s first museum for electronic music. But a stereotypical museum this most certainly is not. The MOMEM – or Museum of Modern Electronic Music – is […]
Activists New and Old Jab Art World
Artist-activists target art world’s hypocrisy and corruption while rubbing elbows at events by By Jennifer Smith for WSJ Last weekend, the art-activist group the Guerrilla Girls engaged in a typically bumptious gesture: projecting images from their latest campaign on the side of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s building in lower Manhattan as a block […]
