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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: Adad Hannah


Adad Hannah
The Raft of the Medusa (100 Mile House)
(video still, detail), 2009
Courtesy of the artist and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
March 21 – May 30, 2010

The nineteenth-century tableau vivant is revived and given a new twist in the video works on view in Adad Hannah: Masterpieces in Motion at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum from March 21 through May 30, 2010.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: Anish Kapoor


Anish Kapoor
Tall Tree & the Eye, 2009
Stainless steel and carbon steel
14 x 6 m
Courtesy the artist
Installation: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2010
Photo: Erika Ede © FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, 2010

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
16 March – 12 October 2010

This is the first large-scale solo exhibition in Spain dedicated to the work of Anish Kapoor, one of the most critically-acclaimed and influential artists of his generation.

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Marres, centre for contemporary culture: Beyond The Amateur – A collector’s perspective on the history of photography


Photo Eline Portman (Arjan de Nooy collection)

Marres, centre for contemporary culture
14 March – 30 May 2010

As a collector, Arjan de Nooy amassed the work of dozens of Dutch photographers. His scientific background as a chemist led him to pursue a research-based method of collecting, focusing on the lives and oeuvres of largely unknown photographers. In years past, Marres has organised a number of different projects addressing the role and significance of “the collector,” such as La Collection Imaginaire and After Cage.

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Posted: March 11th, 2010
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The Arts Catalyst and Yorkshire Sculpture Park: The Case of the Deviant Toad


DFA 25, Promethéus
Scanner print of cleared and stained multi-limbed Pacific Treefrog

The Arts Catalyst and
Yorkshire Sculpture Park

New York artist, activist and ecological researcher, Brandon Ballengée brings his startling high-resolution scanner photographs, video and preserved specimens of deformed toads to the Royal Institution for his first London solo exhibition: The Case of the Deviant Toad.

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Ballroom Marfa: In Lieu of Unity / En lugar de la unidad

Ballroom Marfa
March 26 – August 15, 2010

In Lieu of Unity brings together artists from Mexico – citizens, residents and emigrants – who have sustained a curiosity about social relations in their art practices. Their focus demonstrates that the nature of existence is contingent not merely on the cognizance of being, but more so on the relationships between individuals and the collectives they form.

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KVB: Art Goes Underground – The KVB Artist Competition has been decided


Katharina Grosse
Entwurfsskizze, 12.2009
Studio Katharina Grosse

KVB

Four internationally renowned artists have been chosen to create artistic concepts for the stations of the new North-South Municipal Railway. With this, an art project of international standing will be created, aimed at raising people’s awareness of the city beneath the city.

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la maison rouge: Vinyl, Records and covers by artists


© Bettina Brach / Collection Guy Schraenen

la maison rouge
Until 16 May 2010

Vinyl shows a selection of some 800 pieces from the collection of Guy Schraenen. The main of this collection comprises vinyl records and covers by artists, musicians and poets in LP, single and other formats, alongside other sound media (tapes and CDs).

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Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA): Armando Andrade Tudela


Armando Andrade Tudela
Marcahuasi, 2009-2010
© Armando Andrade Tudela, 2010

Museu d’Art Contemporani
de Barcelona (MACBA)

This exhibition heralds a new approach to considering the production of work in the setting of the Capella MACBA. All the exhibitions will share the common denominator of having been specifically produced to be shown in this space. The work produced by Armando Andrade Tudela, Peruvian artist living between Berlin and Saint-Étienne (France), includes two 16-mm films (transferred onto DVD) recently made and a wall piece Untitled (Two frames #2) (2010), all framed by an architecture also designed by the artist for the occasion.

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Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw: Where the West Ends?


Olga Chernysheva
Second Life
Series of light boxes
100×150 cm
2001, courtesy of the artist

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
18 – 19 March 2010

In the frame of the Former West project, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw will hold a two-day seminar focusing on art in the former Soviet Union and its immediate zone of influence after the transition of 1991.

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Nam June Paik Art Center: Random Access


Nam June Paik
Untitled
Nam June Paik Art Center Collection

Nam June Paik Art Center
13 March – 20 May 2010

Random Access is a theme Paik addressed frequently throughout his practice. As early as 1963, when Paik presented his groundbreaking Exposition of Music Electronic Television, the concept of Random Access was present throughout and was even the title of one of the works.

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Posted: March 9th, 2010
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