CAPC
Musée d’art contemporain
de Bordeaux

CAPC, the Bordeaux museum of contemporary art, announces the launch of a new website with previously unpublished resources on the artists. It was imagined not only for updates and information on the museum, but also for browsing through the living memory of the unique experience that has been developed since 1980.

Museum Het Domein Sittard
Until 12 December 2010

For roughly 35 years, Mel Chin (Houston, Texas, 1951) has been developing a unique, socially engaged and self-willed body of work in which cultural diversity and global solidarity play an important role.

The Phillips Collection

Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection, announces the appointment of Klaus Ottmann as the museum’s first Curator at Large, a newly created position supported by a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He will direct the activities of The Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art, established in 2007 to engage varied audiences in conversations about modern and contemporary art. Ottmann begins work at the Phillips on Oct. 1.

MOCA

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is pleased to announce Heffington + The East Siders as the first participants in the re-launch of MOCA’s two-year Engagement Party program that presents new works by innovative Southern California–based artist collectives and collaborators.

Museum für Moderne Kunst
25 September 2010 – 9 January 2011

As the title already indicates the focus here is not on the glamorous fashion world of the rich and the beautiful.

Dia:Beacon

This presentation of works by Franz Erhard Walther will feature a selection of Handlungsstücke (Action Pieces) from the early 1960s, including the complete presentation of 1. Werksatz (First Work Set), 1963–69. Acquired by Dia in 1978, this work comprises fifty-eight fabric elements, or “instruments,” meant to be activated by visitors to the museum, drawing attention to the body as material form.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Public Art Fund

From the utopian ambitions of the modernist movement to the overlooked details of daily experience, Ryan Gander’s work ranges across a dizzying spectrum of forms and ideas.

Whether produced in the context
of the “independent non-profit art space” or the “new contemporary art museum,”
in countless panels conducted in English or as quotes in secondary features
published in international art magazines that cover an a…

Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz have been collaborating together since 1994. Their work is exhibited internationally and is in many museum collections, including Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, La Caixa in Barcelona, Spain, and th…

Spazmat aka SKULLPHONE at the Riverside Art Museum
runs till July 26th

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
4-14 September 2010

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture is showcasing Russian and international performance artists in Moscow’s first International Performance Art Festival curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and a Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, and RoseLee Goldberg, Director and Curator of Performa in New York.