The new Parkett Vol. 88 begins with a dialogue entitled “Staging an Opera of Knowledge” between the marvelously articulate Herbert Lachmeyer and Jacqueline Burckhardt. Juri Steiner considers the Zentrum Paul Klee’s Summer Academy in Bern and debates what is accomplished in today’s art school “laboratory” relative to the passionate utopian pedagogy of the early twentieth century.

Hayward Gallery Project Space
12 March–2 May 2011

Looking ahead to the wedding of Prince William of Wales to Kate Middleton, ‘The Royal Family’ is an exhibition that focuses on contemporary artist’s representations of the House of Windsor. It features works in a range of media—including drawing, photography, film and ceramics—that examine the family’s individual members, and the signs and signifiers of 21st century monarchy.

Wish We Were Here is a touring exhibition curated by Samantha Hardingham and Hans Ulrich Obrist. It is organized by the Public Occasion Agency and AA Exhibitions and is in part a re-staging of VENIC VENIC made for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, ‘People Meet in Architecture’, Venice Biennale 2010 directed by Kazuyo Sejima and was made possible by the additional support of the Institute of the 21st Century: Bettina Korek, Karen Marta and Justin Conner.

Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun

Richard Buckminster Fuller, one of the most influential architects of the last century, inventor, environmentalist and humanitarian, expressed in this way his belief in the dialogue between art and science—two principal domains capable of introducing novelties, creating visions and pushing forward boundaries of knowledge

The sixteenth edition of MiArt, International Modern and Contemporary Art Fair to be held in Milan from 8th to 11th April at fieramilanocity, presents top international artists through one hundred galleries of prestige: a collection of all that’s best in art from the early 20th century up to most recent experiments.

Americas Society Art Gallery

Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding) is an exhibition anchored by a digital projection—the artist’s first work to incorporate sound and moving images. This two-channel projection is based on the 1923 ballet, scored by the composer Igor Stravinsky for Sergei Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes, one of the 20th century’s most significant modernist experiments of gesamtkunstwerk.

In 2011, the Royal Academy of Arts will be presenting the first exhibition for 30 years to examine British sculpture of the twentieth century. The show will represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture, exploring what we mean by the terms British and sculpture by bringing the two together in a chronological series of strongly themed galleries, each making its own visual argument.

For centuries, artists have expressed themselves in the field of books and printing, but adequate recognition and critical acceptance of “Artists’ Books” as a distinct genre only came in the 20th century. The ABoT project promotes contemporary art and artists working in the field with the ambition to raise more public awareness for this genre of art which is, for many artists, a central and important form of practice.

Tate Liverpool
17 December 2010 – 13 March 2011

Media artist, performance artist, composer and visionary, Nam June Paik (1932–2006) was one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century. Paik’s radical ideas on art and technology transformed what we now understand as video and media art.

The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world is an international research project developed between 2010 and 2012 involving a wide range of curators, critics, historians of art, artists and professionals from diverse disciplinary fields and contexts, in an ongoing debate about exhibition practices of contemporary art in the beginning to the 21st century. It is organized by Fondazione Antonio Ratti together with the Camera di Commercio di Como (in the ambit of the initiative Laboratorio Como 2010).

Once again the sister event of Switzerland’s Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach is drawing the art world to Miami Beach. More than 250 leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa exhibit 20th and 21st century artworks by over 2,000 artists. Take a stroll with VernissageTV through Art Basel Miami [...]

The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world is an international research project developed between 2010 and 2012 involving a wide range of curators, critics, historians of art, artists and professionals from diverse disciplinary fields and contexts, in an ongoing debate about exhibition practices of contemporary art in the beginning to the 21st century.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
September 11, 2010 – January 16, 2011

By affecting an inextricable unity of artistic thinking and action, Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) became one of the most charismatic creative personalities of the 20th century. His multifaceted oeuvre-which continues to exert an influence on contemporary artistic production-is still featured and discussed under the most diverse aspects.

Should everything be seen as raw
material? It is a promise at the very heart of the language, the
experience, the reception, the production of art. Hardened systems full of
authority should be beaten back down to a point where their basic components …

Art-Agenda

Ana Teixeira Pinto takes a tour of the brief history of Dahn Vo, ending up at a grave marker for his father (via a 19th century English poet’s headstone and a 17th century play), only to discover “the man without qualities.”

Daimler Contemporary
October 29, 2010 – March 27, 2011

The Daimler Contemporary is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition ‘Minimalism and Applied II. Contemporary art in dialogue with 20th century architecture and design’ at Daimler Contemporary. Over the last ten years, the Daimler Art Collection has developed a focal point in the field of constructive, conceptual and minimalistic tendencies from the 1920s to the present day.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
October 2, 2010 – January 9, 2011

Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is considered to be one of the most significant painters working today, and his distinctive visual style and approach to issues of history and memory have influenced an entire generation of younger artists. Interested in the after-effects of the most traumatic events of the last and present century and their representation in the mass media, Tuymans uses a muted palette to create paintings that are at once sumptuous and subtle, enigmatic and disarmingly stark.

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
8 October 2010 – 2 January 2011

Potosí, the famous silver-mining city, synonymous with immense wealth and unbridled exploitation, was the capital of the mining industry in Latin America from the 16th to the 18th century and played a crucial role in the development of European capitalism and the migrations associated with it. Even today, the expression vale un Potosí—worth a fortune—is commonly used in Spanish.

Artists MTAA are conducting an old-fashioned barn-raising using high-tech techniques. The general public group-decides design, architectural, structural and aesthetic choices using a commercially-available barn-making kit as the starting point.

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Neue Nationalgalerie
18 September 2010 – 2 January 2011

“Intolerance” is a new work conceived by Dutch artist Willem de Rooij (*1969). Developed especially for the Neue Nationalgalerie, it consists of a large, temporary installation and a three-part publication. “Intolerance” confronts a group of 17th century Dutch bird-paintings by Melchior d’Hondecoeter with a group of 18th and 19th century feathered objects from Hawai’i.