Philadelphia and Cleveland have a lot in common in part because they each are eclipsed by a nearby major, international metropolitan area–New York and Chicago respectively. When our host (we were in Cleveland at the beginning of February) heard I admired Cleveland, she seemed truly thrilled. So for natives of both cities there’s a diffidence, [...]

“Jimi Hendrix”, “Susan Sontag”, “Gegenkultur”, “Der kommende Aufstand”, “XXX” and “2010″… are the titles of the works that Olaf Metzel presents in his new exhibition at Galerie Bernd Klüser 2 in Munich / Germany. These are new works of the years 2010 and 2011. Typical for Metzel’s work is the social and political provocing aspect. Important for him [...]

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 [...]

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
22 February–15 May 2011

From February 23 to May 15, 2011, the Schirn presents a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the German painter Eugen Schönebeck, which will feature almost all of his surviving paintings and his most important drawings. After devoting himself to Tachist drawing in his beginnings, Schönebeck turned to figurative drawing and painting and was one of the first German artists to thematize the traumatic experiences of World War II.

Spanish artist Daniel Canogar currently has three solo exhibitions in Madrid: “Spin” at Galeria Max Estrella, “Vórtices” at Fundacíon Canal, and Travesías at Canal Isabel II. Travesias is a piece that Daniel Canogar created especially for the atrium of the Justus Lipsius building of the European Union Council. It was exhibited there from January to [...]

REFF – Remix the world! Reinvent Reality!A Fake Cultural Institution, an A/R drug and the reinvention of realityDirectly from Italy, Art is Open Source and FakePress present the REFF project and REFF AR Drug.REFF, a fake cultural institution founded …

Raven Row
24 February–24 April 2011

This exhibition is the first to survey over forty years of the work of Morgan Fisher (born 1942, lives in Los Angeles). It is organised around the two major areas of Fisher’s work: his films—for which he first became known in the late sixties—and his work in painting, which began in the early nineties.

In this week’s roundup, Cao Fei puts avatars on stage, Laurie Anderson to be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Barbara Kruger looks back in Dazed & Confused, Laylah Ali and Do-Ho Suh have uncommon portraits, and much more. Cao Fei‘s RMB City Opera is at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the first place in the United [...]

The Cuban artist duo Los Carpinteros created the stand of the Spanish newspaper El País at the international art fair ARCO Madrid 2011. The installation titled “Sala de Juntas” recreates the moment of an explotion in a company’s office.The exploded pieces are suspended in the air. Los Carpinteros are Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés (Camagüey, Cuba, [...]

 New on The Hyperliterature Exchange and Furtherfield for February 2011 – a review of Andy Campbell’s four-part digital mystery-story, “Nightingale’s Playground”, which appeared online last year.”Campbell has always been at pains not to place his text…

M – Museum Leuven
24 February–22 May 2011

One after another, a few silent steps will be Cabrita Reis’ first retrospective show in Belgium. It is the most comprehensive survey of the Portuguese artist’s works to date, and brings together about sixty works dating from 1985 until 2010, sculptures, paintings, photographs and installations.

Juana de Aizpuru opened her first gallery in Sevilla in 1970. In 2010, she celebrated her 40th Anniversary. In 1983 she opened a second gallery in Madrid. She created ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in 1982 and was for a long time the director of the fair. Galería Juana de Aizpuru is representing artists such [...]

Monday, 28 February 2011
8 PM

RijksakademieLIVE #1 presents Real Artists don’t have Teeth, a monologue written by Dora García, performed by Jakob Tamm. After the performance Philippe Pirotte will moderate a discussion with the artist and the audience.

opening February 26, 2011www.gagosian.com

opening February 26, 2011www.gagosian.com

opening February 26, 2011www.perrotin.com

opening February 26, 2011www.perrotin.com

Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
25 February–1 May 2011

Initiated in 2006, H BOX, a commissioning program that has offered stipends to four artists every year, in order to produce single-channel works in video. These works are presented in a collapsible screening room designed by architect Didier Faustino, which travels the world with a selection of works updated yearly.

Caterina Davinio featured in”SGUARDI SONORI 2011″ festival of media and time based artPALAZZO ORSINIBOMARZO (VT)February 19 – March 20  2011–*** Forthcoming! Caterina Davinio’s book+DVD: Virtual Mercury House_Planetary & Interplanetary Events, Po…

opening February 28, 2011 – ‘Vertical Works’ at Ambika P3, University of Westminster and works on paper at Sprüth Magers London. www.spruethmagers.comPress Release