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28 March

Francis Alÿs: Fabiola / Schaulager at Haus zum Kirschgarten, Basel

The Schaulager in Basel is already a very special institution and exhibition space. With the solo show “Francis Alÿs: Fabiola“, Schaulager has realized also an unusual project. Instead of presenting artist Francis Alÿs collection of images of Saint Fabiola in its own premises, Schaulager staged the exhibition in the Haus zum Kirschgarten, once Basel’s foremost [...]

27 March
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Stedelijk Museum : Temporary Stedelijk 2

While work continues on the new annex, the Stedelijk Museum continues its temporary program in the historic building with Temporary Stedelijk 2, which focuses on its renowned collection of modern and contemporary art and design. Selections from the collections, both iconic and lesser known works as well as recent acquisitions, are presented in innovative ways within the current conditions of the building.

24 March
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Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB: The CAB Collection and Carlos Garaicoa

Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB
28 January–1 May 2011

The Cuban Carlos Garaicoa (La Havana, 1967) is one of the most outstanding visual artists of his generation. He has developed, for some years now, a dialogue between art and urban spaces through which he investigates the social structure of our cities in terms of their architecture.

21 March
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Artist Residency in Alaska

We are situated 100 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska – just south of Talkeetna, the historic village nestled at the base of Denali (Mt. McKinely). Our facilities comprise 80 acres of homesteaded land including a time-honored California ranch style home…

18 March
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National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea: Out of the Silent Planet

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
10 November 2010–29 May 2011

Out of the Silent Planet consists of ten media art pieces from museum collection by the following revolutionary media artists from 1970s to present; Park Hyun-ki, Yook Tae-jin, Kim Seung-young, Kim Ki-chul, Cho Duck-hyun, Kim Young-jin, Lee Bul, Gim Hong-sok.

16 March
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The Phillips Collection: 2011 Intersections Artists Include Balasubramaniam, deSouza, and Borosom

The Phillips Collection

The collaborative team probes gender and identity transformation in a three-channel video projection, The Coronation. Evoking a medieval altarpiece, the work occupies a gallery on the second floor of the Phillips house and establishes a visual dialogue with Georges Rouault’s Tragic Landscape (1930) from the permanent collection.

13 March
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Culturgest: Three exhibitions in Porto and Lisbon

Culturgest

When can an independent art space feel it is old enough to revive its own history in the form of a retrospective exhibition? When is it right to think its record of activities deserves a historicizing publication? The answer is ten years. It is the convention that seems to apply here. Ten years is what distinguishes real proof of accomplishment from self-aggrandizing thinking.

9 March

Cai Guo-Qiang: Resplandor y soledad at MUAC, Mexico City

The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo MUAC (Contemporary Art University Museum) located in the Cultural Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It’s the largest public institution in Mexico to accommodate a collection of national and international contemporary art. Resplandor y soledad / Splendor and Solitude (2010) curated by Ben Tufnell, is the first [...]

7 March
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Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz on collecting – new podcast

Our series sponsor is Fleisher Art Memorial. Locks Gallery is our episode sponsor. Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz have amassed an extraordinary art collection of work by self-taught artists like James Castle, Martin Ramirez, William Edmondson and many more. The Bonovitzes — Jill is a respected ceramic artist and Sheldon Bonovitz is a lawyer and emeritus [...]

4 March
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Resolutions: Bay Area Screening Night and Panel

Join us for an exciting screening night at the Mills CollegeArt Museum featuring video work by Bay Area artists followed by a paneldiscussion. This program is curated by Samara Halperin, Visiting Artist in theIntermedia Arts Department at Mills College…

4 March
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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) : Mexico: Expected/Unexpected

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)
February 5–May 15, 2011

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) presents Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, an exhibition featuring artworks selected from CIAC (the Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection), one of Mexico’s most comprehensive and dynamic contemporary art collections.

4 March
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Moderna Museet: Jutta Koether’s The Thirst

Moderna Museet
5 March–24 April 2011

Jutta Koether is a painter, performance artist, musician, critic and theoretician. Her works incorporate distinct elements of punk and underground culture. She has exhibited internationally but The Thirst at Moderna Museet is Jutta Koether’s most extensive museum exhibition, and her first in Scandinavia so far, featuring some 40 works from 2004 to 2010.

3 March

Inaugural Opening of Museo Soumaya in Mexico City

On March 1, 2011, the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City opened the doors of its new building with an inaugural event. The Museo Soumaya is a private art museum that was founded in 1994 by the Carlos Slim Foundation. It houses art collected by billionaire Carlos Slim and his late wife Soumaya. The collection includes [...]

1 March
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Peter Friedl, The Impossible Museum

Collecting and
conserving have led to a situation in which the depots are full and often
eighty percent of the total collection inventory is withheld from audiences.
There are collections without their own exhibition spaces, for example, the scientific…

28 February
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Next week on artblog radio – Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz on collecting the self-taught artists

Collecting came early in the marriage of Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz. She’s a respected artist and he’s a high-powered lawyer and emeritus chairman of Duane Morris LLP and together they’ve amassed a collection of work by lesser known self-taught artists as well as those well-known in the genre  – James Castle, Martin Ramirez, William Edmondson. [...]

28 February

New Art in the Deutsche Bank Towers

The Deutsche Bank Collection is one of the world’s largest corporate art collections. On the occasion of the re-opening of the bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, a new concept for the collection and the new presentation of the bank’s collection in the Deutsche Bank towers was introduced to the press and invited guests [...]

27 February
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Looking for Art

The Art of Collecting is looking for people named Art (Arthur, Arton, Arturo etc.) to become part of an art collection.To participate send a photo of yourself (or the person named art), along with the name of the person who has the copyright to the pho…

26 February
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Daros Latinamerica Collection : As guest of Migros Museum for Contemporary Art presents Nicola Costantino

5 March–15 May 2011

Daros Latinamerica is delighted that it can continue to show work, if in a somewhat reduced capacity, as temporary guest of the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art at Hubertus Exhibitions, the new centre in use during renovation of the Löwenbräu-Areal in Zurich.

25 February
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Fotomuseum Winterthur: Andre Kertesz

Fotomuseum Winterthur
26 February–15 May 2011

André Kertész—who was born in Budapest in 1894 and died in New York in 1985—was a supporter of Brassaï, an inspiration for Henri Cartier-Bresson, and is considered one of the founders of photojournalism. He introduced stylistic elements that can still be found today in the works of contemporary photographers. Kertész was a genuine photographer and artist—poetic, investigative, essential, free in thought and actions. He liked to characterize himself as an “eternal amateur.”

24 February
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ArtMag: ArtMag issue 64 online now

ArtMag issue 64

Younger and more international than ever before—this is how art presents itself in the newly modernized Deutsche Bank Towers in Frankfurt. With 1,500 works by 100 artists from 44 countries, the new presentation in the bank’s headquarters offers insight into the enormous variety in contemporary art worldwide. ArtMag invites readers on a journey of discovery through the towers—and to Globe.

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