In the last few years, three new independent art fairs were founded as a complementary program to the Kunstherbst Berlin (Art Autumn), the city’s annual fall celebration of the arts, with its traditional, well-established Art Forum Berlin. Berliner Liste, Berliner Kunstsalon and Preview Berlin are not meant as competitor programs to Art Forum Berlin, which […]

The Berliner Liste takes place in an old Electricity Transformer Building in the middle of the emerging art scene in Berlin, before this building was used as the home of the Vitra Design Museum. The location is jammed with a fresh offering of works by the most interesting artists from 45 international galleries. The Berliner […]

As the Toronto International Art Fair gears up for its seventh edition this November, it does so as a now-familiar marker on the art world’s cultural calendar, one that has built a sense of national community over the years. When the doors open for the Preview on November 9th and to the general public on […]

The Canary Islands are constantly on the news these days with reports of the continuous illegal, escorted and/or expected arrival of pateras, cayuco boats and canoes to its shores. These small boats—arriving crammed with Africans from the continent, mainly from the neighbouring and closest countries (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cape Verde) but also from distant nations […]

In contrast to some of the ubiquitous and overwhelmingly large-scale exhibitions of late, and the exigent nature of their ideologically-charged agendas, the 6th Biennale at Site Santa Fe running from July 9 through January, 2007, is innovative in light of its almost intimate scale, character and all-embracing scope of its curatorial aspiration. Curator Klaus Ottmann, […]

It finally happened. “The Show (Achilles Heels)” has delivered the conscious mythology for the Age of Aquarius. The foremost element is the androgynous being. Mircea Eliade, the renowned teacher of comparative religion, writes, “divine bisexuality is an element found in a great many religions and—a point worth nothing—even the most supremely masculine or feminine divinities […]

Biljana Ciric: Can you tell me about the initiative of the Singapore Biennale as a part of the World of Opportunities project, IMF and World Bank group, as they exist under one umbrella? What does the Singapore Biennale, as an opportunity, really mean from local and global perspectives, and what are the challenges that you […]

The unintentional irony of the immensely tall Richard Move’s personification of Martha Graham in the Martha Graham Dance Company’s 80th Anniversary Celebration revealed the essentiality of her transgender art form for a new century. He well deserved the honor for keeping the technique and quest of Martha alive in the shadows of the official New […]

Our perceptions are often tainted by prejudices so ingrained that we are not even conscious of this when we look at something. So it is with the distinction made between art and craft. Traditionally, “craft” artists follow traditions handed down for generations, whereas “fine artists” produce work with a cutting-edge criticality—produced for a capitalist market […]

The Contemporary Chinese art scene is vibrant, enthusiastic and economically booming—echoing the general situation in China. In the last 20 years, art from China has confounded the expectations of the international art community, as the content expressed in these art works is no longer subservient solely to the aims of the governmental and social agenda. […]