The Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the artist-run radio project Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) as the spring 2011 participants in Engagement Party, MOCA’s program presenting new works by innovative Southern California–based artist collectives. Harnessing the airwaves, NPR will create three interactive sound projects for MOCA visitors to experience on the first Thursday evenings of April, May, and June 2011. All events are FREE to the public and no reservations are required. For further information, visit moca.org/party.

New Methods is a three-day symposium examining the practices of contemporary arts organizations that provide essential educational and professional development to local artistic communities in Latin America.

Yinka Shonibare MBE (Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2008) ISBN 978-3-7913-4123-1 Yinka Shonibare is a contemporary of the Young British Artists and while he exhibited with them, he has never been considered one of the group. Unlike them, he creates work of unapologetic beauty.  Shonibare uses beauty as a hook; it draws audiences for his manipulated, historicist [...]

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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.

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Sarah Thornton, the author of Seven Days in the Art World — a book that made me book laugh, giggle, and weep — spoke last night at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. The talk was titled, “Artists at Work,” an intriguing idea to me since I have found that all too often [...]

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.

S.M.A.K.
Museum of Contemporary Art
3 December 2010–27 March 2011

The Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie (Baia-Mare, 1977) is showing in the S.M.A.K. a selection of paintings from before 2009 and a body of new work, including some collage paintings. Also, he is for the first time constructing his imposing Dada Room, a benchmark work in which elements from previous work merge.

22 February–19 June 2011

The Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present the largest retrospective to date of the American artist John McCracken (b. 1934, Berkeley, California. Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico).

24 January–20 April 2011

The Architectures/Dessins/Utopies exhibition presents drawings (collages, drawn interventions) pertaining to architecture by visual artists and drawings by architects that go beyond architecture stricto sensu. It will be on display at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest from January to April 2011 and relies on a selection of works, rarely or never shown before, from the prestigious French state collection, the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain/Centre National des Arts Plastiques.

ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art
13 February – 3 April 2011

Düsseldorf-based media artist Mischa Kuball is among the few artists who has consistently understood light’s (socio-)political dimensions and used the media accordingly in numerous works and installations.

Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago
January 29–May 29, 2011

Known for his fantastical invention, biting wit, and distorted figuration, renowned American painter Jim Nutt has focused on portraits of female heads for the past two decades. These imaginary portraits are similar in some ways, yet each is distinctly individual. Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character is a retrospective that emphasizes the development of these important paintings through their precedents in his own work, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, from January 29 to May 29, 2011.

In this week’s roundup, Janine Antoni is a top art chef, Shahzia Sikander is honored, Carrie Mae Weems explores the body, Andrea Zittel and Jeff Koons invite interaction, and more. Janine Antoni is one of four artists teaming up with Executive Chef Kevin Lasko to create unique dishes that combine taste, art, and a bit [...]

M HKA
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp

For more than twenty years now, New York-based artists Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner, who each represent different aspects of, and/or strands within, (the complex interplay between) the conceptual, post-conceptual and neo-conceptual traditions in art, have engaged in an intense intellectual and artistic dialogue. In one of a number of conversations between both artists that has been published over the years, and from which the above quote was taken, however, they noted how this dialogue has so far ‘failed’ to produce concretely artistic results—and how that has been ‘interesting’ indeed.

Matt Mullican discusses the collisions of real and virtual space in his work with digital and interactive media in the past twenty years.”I went from being surrounded by things—dealing with how we name them and how we experience our environment throu…

The Costakis Collection of the State Museum of Contemporary Art is “taking off” on a trip to space with the exhibition “The Cosmos of the Russian Avant-Garde: Art and Space Exploration, 1900-1930″. The exhibition which was firstly organized as an initiative of Fundación Botín, is now presented at the SMCA, (Moni Lazariston building) in Thessaloniki, Greece, until March 27, 2011. The exhibition is a co-production between the two institutions.

Established by the City of Hiroshima in 1989, the Hiroshima Art Prize recognizes the achievements of artists who have contributed to the peace of humanity in the field of contemporary art, and through contemporary art aims to appeal to a wider world and the spread the “Spirit of Hiroshima,” which seeks everlasting world peace. This prize is awarded once every three years.

Eli Broad, Los Angeles’s most aggressive philanthropist, nearly always wears solid, primary colored ties. Last Thursday, he wore a red one to unveil the plan for his new museum on Grand Avenue in downtown L.A. It stood out nicely against the projected images of the honeycomb-like building that will be situated beside Gehry’s Disney Concert [...]

The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) Bucharest
25 November 2010 – 27 February 2011

Between September 2005 and May 2007 Călin Dan has been involved in a collaboration with the inmates from the Colibaşi Penitentiary (Romania), in the frame of a project commissioned to him by the Office of the Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands (Atelier Rijksbouwmeester).