contemporary art

This year has started on a high note, with the return of the physical Investec Cape Town Art Fair event in February. “There was a strong sense of optimism among visitors and an obvious delight in rediscovering works of art in the flesh,”…

PRAGUE - The Kunsthalle Praha, which opened on Tuesday in the former Zenger power substation, is not the first exhibition space in a former power station. Yet from the start, this privately funded redevelopment opposite Prague Castle puts…

A group of art-world figures are speaking out against the Kunsthalle Berlin, saying they are "alarmed" by both the politics and the funding of the new space, which opened last month at historic Tempelhof airport. The uproar is…

A stroll through the lobby of the Dallas Museum of Art turns into a nighttime lowrider cruise through the streets of East Los Angeles with the immersive Guadalupe Rosales mural, Drift on a memory. The fresco is visible until…

Make the most of the nicest weather of the year and take advantage of the first Friday of February events in downtown Phoenix.Those in the mood for a stroll can head to Roosevelt Row for the pop-up market at the Welcome Center on Second and…

After bushfires came within a kilometer of destroying one of the country's most important collections of single-artist works, plans to build a more secure gallery were accelerated.Key points:New Bundanon Gallery is built to withstand fires…

For many, she is the godmother of the Miami art scene.Avant-garde eco-feminist artist Mira Lehr dramatically shaped the creative landscape, paving the way for those with promise. His work has been featured by notable art institutions…

Judy Baca still remembers the day in the 1970s when the curator of an exhibit featuring the work of emerging Los Angeles artists told him she couldn't include Baca in the exhibit. "They're just people touched by an angel," Baca recalls…

Alcatraz loomed in the background and the Golden Gate Bridge lit up in the distance, and those with San Francisco's great fortunes - some new, some old - flocked to Fort Mason, the military base once used as a battery of the West Coast…

Over the past decade, Swiss entrepreneur Pierre Sigg has focused on contemporary art, collecting it, sharing it and supporting its creation. A technology mogul with a prodigious heritage of video and digital art, he has hosted two…

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNNThe short life and meteoric rise of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will once again be told on the big screen in an upcoming biopic directed by Nigerian American filmmaker Julius Onah.Actor Kelvin Harrison Jr.,…

A confessional, hidden behind the wall of a gallery; a forest of withered white trees; a ritual of public mourning, illuminated by candlelight. In 2021, artists have transcended conventional museum presentations to engage the full…

As soon as I stepped into the Museum of Modern Art's chronological retrospective “Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction”, I felt delighted, like a kid again. I was captivated by the expressive movement, the pure geometric shapes and the…

The pandemic is on and the confusion persists - and I'm not talking about the Omicron variant. You can't talk about art in 2021 without mentioning NFTs non-fungible tokens stormed the doors of the contemporary art establishment in March,…

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Try to remember when you didn't know Eve Babitz.I first read Eve as part of a book of photographs by artist Zoe Crosher. Zoe's work is not about the city per se. Through photography and detective archive projects, she maps a certain…

In the contemporary art world, the ability to survive - and even thrive - largely depends on freedom of expression and a certain level of permissiveness if not support from official channels. But in countries like Hungary,…

(CNN) - While China still hasn't announced any solid plans to reopen its border to international leisure travelers, there's no harm in starting to dream about your next visit now. There are hundreds of worthy destinations in the country to…

The art scene is buzzing again with Kochi Art Week (KAW) which kicked off this weekend. It has several galleries pooling their resources for shows, art tours, heritage walks in Fort Kochi and Mattancherry, children's workshops and…

Loving art to the point of having the desire to open and run a gallery takes passion. It also requires an understanding of the art born of observation and deep reflection. In addition to these things, some people also have a knack for…

The IHME Helsinki 2022 Commission titled Learning from Doubt by an Indian Artist and Filmmaker Amar Kanwar, is a ten week online educational course. The course is based on and emerges from the installation and art exhibition The…

Work of the Syrian artist Mamdouh Kashlan. Muhammad Yusuf, Feature Writer Founded in 2016, the Atassi Foundation for Arts and Culture is a non-profit…

People gather at the new Dumke Arts Plaza for a grand opening ceremony in downtown Ogden on Friday, December 3, 2021. A…

Paint Louis, an annual global community…

Mohammed Kazem is perhaps one of the best witnesses of the country's art history. He is one of them.Considered one of the “five,” a group of artists who led conceptual art in the Emirates in the 1980s and 1990s, he not only supported a…

My name is maryanUntil March 20, 2022 at the Museum of Contemporary Art North MiamiPolish-born Jewish artist Maryan was a child when he arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp and left Auschwitz in 1945 as the only survivor of his…

Catherine Murphy is one of our great artists. During a career that began in 1971, she never stigmatized herself, relied on a format, worked in series, or produced signature works, which…

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Photographer Imogen Cunningham was born in 1883; the same year, a car first crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, the deadly Krakatoa volcano exploded over the Sunda Strait and a train, later immortalized in the "Murder on the Orient Express"…

Last July, the The American Folk Art Museum in New York received a generous bounty: 40 works of art by Horace Pippin and Bill Traylor donated by former AOL Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons and his wife, Laura. The donation came in the…

From the middle streets of Manhattan to the views of the mountains of Mesa, Arizona, multimedia artist Brad Kahlhamer lives in two different worlds, creating spiritual, cosmic and punk art inspired by aesthetics. Through this alchemy, and…

Animation music #clay #video #video November 1, 2021 Grace Ebert In the music video for Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn's new song "Ten degrees of strange, "director Lynn tomlinson (previously) captures endless…

British artist Sacha Jafri sells massive painting for £ 45million The world's largest painting, created by little-known British artist Sacha Jafri, was auctioned in Dubai for £ 45million to French crypto businessman Andre Abdoune. The…

Balinese Masters: Aesthetic Trajectories of Balinese Visual Art DNA, an ongoing presentation in Bali of installations, paintings, sculptures, drawings…

Christie's Auction House will host a Jakarta preview of its Fall 2018 Hong Kong Auctions, which are scheduled for November 23-28 at the Hong Kong…