“This is a perfect opportunity for an audience to see the genesis of the Marilyn Minter paintings that took the world by storm in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Minter, an overnight sensation (after thirty plus years of showing in New York), has been a mainstay of the downtown scene and this triumphant return to her […]

Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, today opens the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, which will house his mind-blowing collection of art. Juan Carretero visits It was no small party in Mexico City the other evening. What else would you expect when the host is Carlos Slim Helu, the richest man in the world by […]

“Speculative Features,” curated by Regine Basha for SculptureCenter, will be on exhibit at the Lexington Avenue offices of Bloomberg, the financial data giant. The exhibit features the work of four sculptors that, in conjunction, address the complicated “futurological” nexus of economics, the growth of information technology, politics, and pop culture. The exhibition’s thesis statement reads: […]

“What happens when pretend politicians pretend to be terrorists reports the deleterious effect on Muslim girls after local politicians use “dirty tricks” to scapegoat Muslims in order to gain votes. In a brightly-colored passage, young girls, now afraid to wear scarves, search for their identities in school lockers.  Turned flat, the lockers could also be traps. With […]

This season, the Brooklyn Museum acquired an important, paradigm-shifting oil painting by Italian painter Agostino Brunias. The piece, entitled “Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape,” depicts women of mixed race on the Caribbean island of Dominica, which changed hands multiple times between the powers of Britain and France during […]

8th Annual “Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art” Kicks off During Asian Contemporary Art Week (New York, NY – February 10, 2011) The Indo-American Arts Council’s 8th Annual Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora features work by 43 artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian subcontinent. This group […]

When a small group of German gallery owners organized the first Cologne art fair in 1967, they aimed to establish a new art centre — at least temporarily. Their long-term goal was to promote the creation of art in Germany — in other words, young German artists — and to position them in the international […]

MON.  MAR 21 The Museum of Modern 7:00 pm:  Art Dialogue with Artist + Screening TUE. MAR 22 Sotheby’s 6:00 pm: Dialogue with Artists + Book Launch + Reception WED. MAR 23 (Signature Event) Asia Society and Museum 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists MON.  MAR 21The Museum of Modern 7:00 pm:  Art Dialogue with Artist […]

Now in its seventh year, Asian Contemporary Art Week celebrates and promotes Asian contemporary art through artist conversations, panels, screenings, book launches, exhibitions, and curator tours at over 35 museums and galleries. This year, ACAW will be held throughout New York City, and opens on the first day of spring: Monday, March 21, also celebrated […]

A gallery staff is reflected in an artwork printed on specially-manufactured coloured mirror of Chinese artist’s Ling Jian exhibition entitled Moon in Glass in Beijing, China, 08 March 2011. Well-known for his ambiguously seductive portraits of beautiful women and androgynous men, Ling’s new series employs portraiture, mirrors, installation and spatial design to create a seamless […]