PAVILION OF THE UNITED STATES 56TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA JOAN JONAS’S THEY COME TO US WITHOUT A WORD Presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center Commissioner and Co-Curator: Paul C. Ha, Director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center Co-Curator: Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the NTU Centre for […]

The Botín Foundation presents Sol LeWitt. 17 Wall Drawings. 1970-2015 Spain’s most important exhibition to date devoted entirely to Wall Drawings by Sol LeWitt, an artist who is regarded as the father of Conceptual Art A selection of 17 Wall Drawings, most of which have never been shown before in Spain, made in collaboration with […]

by Eleanor Heartney for Art in America For the opening on Jan. 28 of “Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary,” the normally sedate galleries of the Neuberger Museum were transformed by light, sound, smell and live performance. The atmosphere was carnivalesque—the strong aroma of sugarcane mingled with a milder one of tea, while the faint […]

Artist best known for wrapping Reichstag turns his attention to creating paths in Italian lake The New York-based, Bulgarian artist Christo is to create three kilometres of shimmering yellow walkways on Lake Iseo in Italy that will link two of its islands to the mainland for the first time. The nylon paths will branch out […]

NEWS May 17–September 7, 2015 The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor. The Museum of Modern Art presents its first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the work of Yoko Ono, taking as its point of departure the artist’s unofficial MoMA debut in late 1971. At that time, Ono advertised her […]

Brown Foundation Gallery On View: April 18 – August 2, 2015 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston For over three decades Marilyn Minter has produced lush paintings, photographs, and videos that vividly manifest our culture’s complex and contradictory emotions around the feminine body and beauty. Her unique works—from the oversized paintings of makeup-laden lips and eyes to soiled […]

THIS YEAR, the first sign of spring in the Caucasus was marked not only by warmer weather but it also heralded an exciting new dawn for contemporary art in the Caucasus and the wider Central Asian region. In March, the new Yarat Contemporary Art Space opened in the Sabail District of Baku, the capital of […]

The artist and activist group Gulf Labor will present a series of official talks at the Venice Biennale where they will discuss, among other things, working conditions at museums and biennials. But it seems that the coalition’s own terms of employment are up in the air, with the Biennale still to agree their budget, according […]

The Frieze Projects program at Frieze New York will feature six new artworks, both inside the fair and around Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, Frieze Projects is the non-profit program of artist commissions realized at Frieze New York. This year, the program includes sculptural environments and performative spaces involving intricate mazes, intimate hideouts […]

Darryl Lauster, University of Texas Arlington The latest front in the battle over public art is taking place in Queens, New York, where Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, responding to angry constituents, has drafted a bill to allow more public input on commissions funded through the city’s “Percent for Art” initiative. The outcry was directed at […]