AAF Past and PresentTwelve years ago, Will Ramsay broke the mold of the traditional art fair by creating the Affordable Art Fair (AAF), a fair where contemporary art is accessible to all. Now in nine locations around the world, AAF proves that you don’t need to be an art expert or a billionaire to […]

The Biennial fair in Sharjah, cultural capital of the United Arab Emirates, has run aground. Director Jack Persekian, a gallerist with a hybrid American-Armenian-Palestinian background, was fired last week. The abrupt rupture shook down over an installation by Algerian artist Mustapha Benfodil. “It Has No Importance,” shown here, presented 23 headless mannequins in a courtyard […]

Through April 16, 2011. 1-5pm, Wednesday – Saturday. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University Enter through main gates, 116th and Broadway    The first year students at Columbia’s coveted MFA Visual Arts program are exhibiting new works this week at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery in Schermerhorn […]

 Giant, 35,000 Pound Yellow Teddy Bear by Artist Urs Fischer to Brighten New York City. NEW YORK (REUTERS).- London has Paddington Bear but New York now has a giant yellow teddy bear, a great sculptural masterpiece that could sell for more than $9 million at auction in May, Christie’s said on Saturday. A 23-foot (7-meter) […]

Group Show – The RecordApril 15 – September 5, 2011, The Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210

National Gallery Visitor Attacks Gauguin Painting04.04.11 A painting in the Paul Gauguin exhibit at the National Gallery was attacked last Friday by a visitor in a rare and unusual incident that provoked considerable commotion. Screaming “This is evil,” a woman tried to pull Gauguin’s Two Tahitian Women, 1889, from a wall and banged on the […]

Beirut Paola Yacoub BEIRUT ART CENTER Jisr El Wati, off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. February 10–April 15     The Beirut- and Berlin-based artist Paola Yacoub is best known for her collaborations with the French artist and architect Michel Lasserre. Since 2000, they have produced numerous projects that place […]

Churner and Churner is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural exhibition: “No Man’s Land” by Joianne Bittle. “No Man’s Land” brings together two series of Bittle’s work: a recently completed group of paintings of jackrabbits (2008-2011) and the first of a series of portable dioramas. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New […]

Churner and Churner is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural exhibition: “No Man’s Land” by Joianne Bittle. “No Man’s Land” brings together two series of Bittle’s work: a recently completed group of paintings of jackrabbits (2008-2011) and the first of a series of portable dioramas. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New […]