ART COLOGNE 46. Internationaler Kunstmarkt Cologne April 18th – 22nd, 2012 Vernissage on Tuesday, April 17th, 5 pm Axa Art Professional Preview on Tuesday, April 17th, 12 pm www.artcologne.com ART COLOGNE 2012 Cooperation between two art fairs: Prestigious US art organization NADA to exhibit at ART COLOGNE 2012 Exhibitions – [...]

Spring 2012, Curated by artist and Professor David Wakstein explores trends within Israeli art showcasing 21 of the country’s leading artists with Bedouin, Christian, Druze, Jewish and Muslim backgrounds. Amongst them Anisa Ashkar, Raffi Lavie, Farid Abu Shakra, Israel Prize recipient Micha Ullman and Gal Weinstien to highlight a few. [...]

The 12th Istanbul Biennial, organized by İKSV with the sponsorship of Koç Holding, opens its doors to art lovers on Saturday, September 17, 2011. The 12th Istanbul Biennial, which will remain on view until November 13, 2011, will transform Istanbul into an art platform pursued attentively by the world’s art [...]

Grimmuseum, Fichtestr. 2 Berlin, presents: EXTENSION SERIES 11 curated by Andrés Galeano Skugga Guðlaugsdóttir & Marco Dorn – Johnny Amore & Irene Pascual 19 – 25 . 9. 2011- Residency 22.6., 19:30 Performances (3€) 23-25 – Documentation 25. 6., 18h. Lecture: STAND-IN FOR FLUXUS by Ann Noël Extension Series 11 [...]

Stefanie Gutheil:  Dreckige Katze September 8 – October 8, 2011 Opening Thursday, September 8th, 6-8 p.m.   Mike Weiss Gallery is pleased to present Dreckige Katze  our second solo exhibition of German artist Stefanie Gutheil.  Gutheil expands her playful and perverse painterly language as she attempts to shine the flashlight [...]

Pentimenti Gallery is pleased to present 2 solo exhibitions. “Synesthesia”, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Anthony DeMelas & “Striking Distance”, a solo show of paintings and works on paper by Franco Mueller. ANTHONY DEMELAS Synesthesia Paintings ANTHONY DEMELAS’s paintings are about the process of exploring overlooked glimpses of [...]

ALPHA-VILLE 2011 International Festival of Post-Digital Culture // Dates: 22nd – 25th September 2011 // Theme: “Zeitgeist, from digital to post-digital” Venues: Netil House, the V&A, Rich Mix, XOYO, Hearn Street Warehouse, Space Studios, The Vortex, Whitechapel Gallery, the streets of Hackney and online Info: Tickets available from http://www.alpha-ville.co.uk/tickets, Calendar available at http://www.alpha-ville.co.uk/calendar, iPhone App downloadable [...]

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Picturesonwalls pop up shop ‘Marks and Stencils’ opened its doors to the public earlier this week. Forming a major part of the store is an exhibition by French artist Dran. Entitled ‘My Everyday Life’ it includes a character called Scribouill…

Eelus work up for auction at the Temwa charity auction in Shoreditch, December 4th 2010
I wouldn’t normally mention a street art / urban art auction but this one is a bit special. Temwa is a Bristol based organisation working with communities in Malaw…

Recently released is a short run two colour hand pulled silkscreen print by Dotmasters (50 prints at £30 each) of his Mad Pride poster design seen on recent demonstrations against the benefit cuts. A full scale original also appeared in the …

Everytime I go into Pictures On Walls one piece of artwork catches my eye – it’s  ‘Free Speech’ by Dran – an artist from Toulouse with a gift for drawing.
  
‘Free Speech’ by Dran
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For only a few days an East End pub will be the unusual venue for the first solo show by Mantis. The Lord Napier pub in White Post Lane, Hackney Wick will temporarily be home to an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and work on paper from the artist wh…

“Photography 1948 – 2010: WOMAN” looks at the female as both a subject and object and explores the topic from male and female perspectives. Bringing together three outstanding fashion photographers – Guy Bourdin, Deborah Turbeville and Lillian Bassman, who together over five decadesaltered the way fashion was shot and women [...]

Scaramouche is pleased to inform you of recent news and events: Einat Amir October 1, TheaterLab, New York, NY: “Art in Odd Places,” curated by Yaelle Amir and Petrushka Bazin, including Flux Factory and Brian Zanisnik, among others. http://artinoddplaces.org/2010/inc/specialevents.php September 23 – November 6, Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, [...]

Pentimenti Gallery is pleased to present two solo exhibitions: Mark Khaisman: From Russia With Love and Sand T: Reductive. Both artists are exhibiting at the gallery for the first time. The mediums and aesthetic of these two artists are distinctly different. Shared are their appreciation and penchant for bold colors, [...]

No Order In Particular is an extension, testing and live (re)configuring of the title to (and the works in) Martin Gustavsson’s exhibition In No Particular Order. The exhibition consists of a currently unlimited, ongoing series of paintings – wildly diverse stylistically and formally – hung in a random order, canvas-to-canvas, [...]

Mike Weiss Gallery is pleased to present New Material, Kim Dorland’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.  Consisting of paintings, watercolors, assemblage on paper and taxidermy animals, New Material pushes the limits of painting to visually narrate Dorland’s experience growing up in rural Canada.  In his most ambitious work to [...]

High Line Art by Friends of the High Line presents Francis Cape’s The Other End of the Line, a major public art installation in the form of a previously occupied residential trailer installed on the Gansevoort Plaza, located at the northwest corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets, through November 21, [...]

Of many, one Johann Arens Chad Burt Hans Diernberger Chas Higginbottom Daniel Lichtman Laura Morrison Isaac Muñoz Rehana Zaman Curated by Erin Sickler OPENING:                                                 Sunday, November [...]