Visual Arts
English, Canada
Published: May 13, 2013
by The Associated Press |
Ancient Art & Antiques
SEOUL — The Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art (established by the major South Korean corporation) typically curates...
MONTREAL — The re-discovery of Manchu Picchu in 1911 did more than just expose the ruins of this ancient royal estate...
Sotheby’s Australia produced a solid result with their June 5 Important Aboriginal Art sale held in Melbourne. A...
Art Fairs
I was taken aback recently when one dealer blithely said “18” after I asked how many fairs he had attended in the past...
Frieze New York returns to Randall's Island for its second edition May 10 to 13. In addition to works on display from...
As South America establishes itself as a powerful force in contemporary art, a Latin wind is blowing over London....
When it comes to sales at Art Cologne, the time honored refrain has been “wait for the weekend.” That might still be...
SINGAPORE — A new art fair focussing on Southeast Asian art called Singapore Menasart will be setting up shop in...
Our ARTINFO photographers have been everywhere this week documenting New York's art fairs, from the main Armory fair,...
Columnist
When will Facebook's running battle with art end?Art fans will be familiar with the steady drip of stories about the...
No one who cares about arts journalism disputes that it is in trouble. Jobs are being lost, content has been thinned,...
Contemporary Arts
A fundraising event to be held for an esteemed Canadian cultural institution, Wednesday evening, presents a refreshing...
In the mid-1970s, while taking classes at Thunder Bay's Lakehead University, an Ontario correctional officer met a...
To the surprise of no one, the Vancouver-based, David Zwirner-represented artist Stan Douglas has...
The Brooklyn-based Canadian artist Mathieu Lefevre died in October 2011 when he was struck and...
David R. Harper is having a busy year. Hot off the heels of his first Sobey Award nomination, the young Chicago-based...
The Canadian art world is putting the Alberta College of Art + Design on trial, this week, after it recently fired one...
Features
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall describes his work as being “cinematographic,” creating staged images with an...
SYDNEY — Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach's "13 Rooms," a 13-room exhibition of "living sculptures," is...
Well, is it? Late last week, the latest Internet meme emerged from China’s Weibo social networking website: photos of...
Everyone started out somewhere — including your favorite art stars. Some of the biggest names in the visual arts came...
Do you know of an alternative space in the United States that would be a good fit for our series? E-mail us at...
After more than 400 hours of work, a student project born out of a Montreal design and animation program garnered its...
Impressionism & Modern Art
Not since the Musée d’Orsay’s 2010 “Crime and Punishment” has Paris received a show with as much darkness and density...
PARIS — As often as Marc Chagall’s figures fly off the ground in his paintings, there’s often the impulse to bring the...
LONDON — The Royal Academy’s blockbuster show “Manet: Portraying Life” is a fascinating walk through the career of one...
John Baird, stepped in just in time. News broke today that the Foreign Affairs Minister put a stop to his department's...
He was Salvador Dali's secretary, advisor, accountant, driver, bodyguard, confidant, and best friend. Enrique Sabater'...
Museums
Decades before New York's Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery's ponds, hills and winding paths provided...
In a thoughtful and critical series under the "Modern Art Notes" rubric, ARTINFO contributor Tyler Green...
DALLAS — “Hello. You can definitely take a picture if you want.”That’s how a security guard named Gary Mathis greeted...
In a year already piqued with anticipation and littered with gifts, Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery just received...
After the announcement struck, last week, that a $1-million cutback to Newfoundland’s revered gallery, The Rooms...
Opening this weekend, the V&A exhibition “David Bowie is” reveals a first-ever retrospective and new, up-close look...
One-Line Reviews
Once again, ARTINFO has sent its intrepid staff into the streets of Chelsea, charged with reviewing the art they saw...
Once again, our intrepid ARTINFO staff set out around our New York offices this week, through the heat and...
Once again, our intrepid ARTINFO staff set out in Chelsea this week, through the heat and thunderous storms, and came...
Reviews
Photographic detritus or archival document? The exhibition of photos selected from the London-based Archive of...
If curating is the discriminatory process of selecting some, but not all, works for the sake of a cohering thematic,...
Derek Mainella and Elizabeth Eamer have curated a tantalizing look at the UK art scene for the Museum of...
When Hong Kong born, Vancouver-based artist Howie Tsui was growing up, his mother told frightening stories...
In 1955, Québec artists Fernand Toupin, Louis Belzile, and Jean-Paul Jérôme signed a creed written by Jauran...
A recent exhibition of Cory Arcangel at the Carnegie Museum of Art, titled “Masters,” should have further...
Traditional Arts
Sotheby’s Australia produced a solid result with their June 5 Important Aboriginal Art sale held in Melbourne. A...
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