The Renaissance Society
March 13–May 1, 2011

This show will address the lingering cultural fallout of the 1960s, in particular its effect on a generation of younger artists and their engagement with the period as it becomes more somberly remote. Fifteen years ago Newt Gingrich said the 1960s would come to be seen as a “temporary aberration” within the overall trajectory of U.S. history.

About Sprouts Society Residency: The residency program invites artists, inventors and farmers  fromaround the world to participate creatively within Catskill region’sworking landscape.  ASsociety residency program supports the inception,creation an…

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Jonathan Lippincott about his new book, “LARGE SCALE: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s.”

There’s nothing quite like the graduate critique seminar – a visit to a classmate’s studio where ten to fifteen artists are hopefully hopped up on enough caffeine that they’ll engage with the artwork hanging on the walls. Otherwise, the forty-five minute critique can seem like an eternity and everyone is left projecting the weirdest things [...]

Kunstverein and Kadist Art Foundation

Ben Kinmont (Born 1963 Burlington, Vermont, USA) is interested in interpersonal communication as a means of addressing the problems of contemporary society. His sculptures and actions attempt to establish a direct, personal relationship between the artist and the viewer, using the work as a mediator.

The Celebration of 100th Birthday of Clara Rockmore – world’s greatest theremin virtuosa. Historical pictures of Clara, video demonstrations. Discussion: “Rockmore’s playing technique. Traditions, present, perspectives” with: Clara Rockmore Found…

After all, totalitarian regimes do not impinge only
upon concrete reality, but also upon this intangible reality of desire. It is
an invisible, but no less relentless, violence. From the micropolitical point
of view, regimes of this kind tend to establ…

Shedhalle Zurich
5 March–15 May 2011

We have become a sleepless society, we even speak of the 24 hours society. Thus, sleep represents the other side, the dark side of the daytime, with its ratio, economics, and business time. Sleep and dream have uncanny aspects, they deal with loss: loss of control, of subjectivity; they are about devotion, about becoming other.

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L’Internationale is the name of a new trans-institutional network of five major European museums and artists archives—Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; the Július Koller Society, Bratislava; the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen (M HKA).

Absalon Work from oeuvre “Absalon engages himself with spaces in systematic and successive ways. By taking questions around essential human activities and basic forms such as the rectangular, the square, the triangle and the circle as his starting points, he begins by emptying out the encountered spaces before restructuring and refilling them with the help [...]

Post by Lauren McCarty Mohammed Kazem, an artist from Dubai, arrived in Philadelphia last June as the first Artist-in-Residence in the UArts low-residency MFA program.  Last month, a group of 12 UArts MFA students traveled to the United Arab Emirates to exhibit work in the juried Emirates Fine Arts Society’s 29th Annual Exhibition at the [...]

High Society at the Wellcome Collection through February 27 is a fascinating look at the cultural history of  mind-altering drugs as used by a broad range of societies; its approach is remarkably non-judgmental. The introductory text explains Every society on Earth is a high society. Very few people live their lives without using some sort [...]

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.

We are very happy to be finalists for the Knight Arts Challenge for Philadelphia, sponsored by the Miami-based Knight Foundation.  The list of the 63 finalists (out of 1.752 applicants) includes local big fish and small fry like us, with about a third of the finalists from the visual arts realm.  Here’s the list below. [...]

The exhibition Freedom of Speech questions and analyzes the concept of freedom of speech and the ideological role it plays in Western democracies. Everything revolves around the questions: What if only those who tell the truth were allowed to speak? What consequences does freedom of expression have for our society?

Morally speaking, the “cold society” is not a good or a bad society. It can run like clockwork, because it ritually confirms the familiar and remains true to it. So the question is not “what real results the cold societies achieve”, but “what permanent intention directs them; because the image they have of themselves are an essential part of their reality.” (Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind)<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/c7ymJLfT-S0" height="1" width="1"/>

Kunsthalle Fridericianum
Until 20 February 2011

Under the title Frontera, Margolles is presenting works which reflect the frightening extent to which the drug war is influencing Mexican society; they also engage with the general taboo on death and violence. Using reduced but always drastic means, Teresa Margolles creates extremely poignant works of art. At first glance, her works often seem to be minimalist in their form.

A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-1980. By Catherine Mason.

Review by Rob Myers.

From the 1950s to the 1980s teachers and students at British educational institutions begged or borrowed access to computing machin…

Museum Villa Stuck
10 November 2010 – 23 January 2011

Ahmet Öğüt’s (b. 1981 in Diyarbakιr, TR, lives and works in Amsterdam, NL) work encompasses various media. Wherever I go I see your shadow behind me—the title Öğüt chose for his exhibition in the RICOCHET series at the Museum Villa Stuck—is indicative of his historical consciousness and of the system of coordinates that he uses for his oeuvre. Öğüt’s examination of history is based on his close study and thorough research of the relevant topics. He focuses on society’s constraints, its rules and its absurdities.

The Renaissance Society
January 9 – February 27, 2011

The Renaissance Society, Lismore Castle Arts, C. Waterford, Ireland, and the 2010 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum, co-commissioned Irish artist Gerard Byrne (b. 1969) to create this new multi-channel video installation titled A thing is a hole in a thing it is not.