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The Baltic Artists Award 2017

The Baltic Artists Award 2017

By Michele Robecchi
In contrast with other art prizes featuring multiple artists, the Baltic Artists Awards has only winners. The four finalists (José Dávila, Eric N. Mack, Toni Schmale and Shen Xin) all received an artist’s fee, a budget to create new work, and a 13-weeks exhibition at the Baltic Art Centre [...]



Buenos Aires will be the first partner city for new Art Basel initiative

Buenos Aires will be the first partner city for new Art Basel initiative

Art Basel announced today that it will partner with the city of Buenos Aires for its Art Basel Cities initiative. Together with the city, Art Basel will develop and host a vibrant and content-driven program of events. Carefully curated with Art Basel, these events will celebrate the local art scene and build lasting relationships between [...]



Carla Acevedo-Yates Appointed Assistant Curator of  Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University

Carla Acevedo-Yates Appointed Assistant Curator of Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (Broad MSU) has appointed Carla Acevedo-Yates, independent curator and critic from San Juan, P.R., as Assistant Curator. Acevedo-Yates will work closely with Broad MSU staff to build upon the museum’s international programming and position as a center for interdisciplinary collaboration.
“Carla brings a [...]



Brian Eno: The Ship

Brian Eno: The Ship

Le Commun - BAC, Geneva
Curated by Michele Robecchi and Annie Serratí.
Conceived to explore the relationship between environment and musical composition, The Ship, Brian Eno’s first exhibition in Switzerland, will be presented at Le Commun in Geneva in concomitance with the 13th edition of Electron Festival.

Already a pioneer in the field of environmental music, [...]



Premier line-up of international galleries announced for Art Basel’s 14th edition in Miami Beach

Premier line-up of international galleries announced for Art Basel’s 14th edition in Miami Beach

Art Basel today announced the gallery list for its 2015 edition in Miami Beach, comprising 267 leading international galleries drawn from 32 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. 29 galleries are completely new to the Miami Beach show. The fair, whose Lead Partner is UBS, takes place at the Miami Beach [...]



Gianni Motti Wins the 2013 Prix de la Société des Arts

Gianni Motti Wins the 2013 Prix de la Société des Arts

In the panorama of contemporary Swiss art, Gianni Motti occupies a category all his own, and while his influence nationally and internationally is beyond dispute, it is no less important to point out both the force and integrity of his independence with respect to the usual institutional and economic channels art follows. Consequently, [...]



The LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age releases “In Your Computer,” by Domenico Quaranta.

Domenico Quaranta, In Your Computer, LINK Editions, Brescia 2011.
Soft cover, 180 pp, English, € 12.00, ISBN: 978-1-4467-6021-5
Buy it on Lulu.com (€ 9.60) – http://www.lulu.com/product/a-copertina-morbida/in-your-computer/15530116
Free download: http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/in-your-computer/15530117
The LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age is proud to announce the publication of the book In Your Computer, by Domenico Quaranta.
The book is a collection of texts written [...]



Move on Asia Takes on the End of Video Art

Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
February 6 - April 1, 2010
“Move on Asia” is one of Korea’s leading video art initiatives. Originating in Seoul in 2004, the annual exhibition consists of experimental video artists nominated by a network of Asian curators. This year nineteen curators have selected the work of almost thirty artists.
Each year the work [...]



ARCO Madrid Fails to Meet Expectations

The future of ARCO Madrid seems uncertain during its twenty-ninth edition as pressure mounts for a fundamental reorganization following sagging attendance and serious disagreements between the fair’s organizers and selection committee. Controversy arose as the fair’s selection committee accused the fair’s organizer, IFEMA, of interfering with the selection process, following the admittance of galleries that [...]



Urban Unease Saves Art

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
February 25 - May 24, 2010
“ATOPIA” is the feeling of unease experienced by the individual in the face of the contemporary city that in no way represents their desired utopian paradise. The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona is presenting “ATOPIA. Art and City in the 21st Century,” its first [...]