Le Tre Grazie, con la Venere di Milo e il busto di Nefertiti, è il gruppo scultoreo forse più famoso al mondo. E poco importa se non tutti sanno che è opera di Antonio Canova e che le tre giovani bellezze da lui immortalate sono figlie di Zeus e rispondono al nome di Aglaia, Eufrosine …
Mana Contemporary, Jersey City Magic of Light, emphasizes the subtle ways in which motion, texture, and light are used in all the works to further convey inherent emotions of loss, fear and nostalgia. Magic of Light includes three collaborative video-painting series by Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi, as well as a video installation by Azari.Shoja …
Film screenings at Para Site, co-curated with Venus Lau The Floating Eternity Project takes its point of departure from a 2012 architectural proposal by BREAD Studio to create an offshore columbarium to alleviate the pressing concerns over Hong Kong’s critical land scarcity and greying population as well as the implications of these issues on the …
de la Cruz Collection, Miami de la Cruz Collection presents next Thursday Felix Gonzalez-Torres in context. An evening with César Trasobares, third presentation of the series “Among Friends: Personal memories of Carlos Alfonzo, Ana Mendieta and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, by artist César Trasobares.”The talk will highlight moments of life and work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. As a …
Fondation Beyeler For three decades now, Thomas Schütte has developed an oeuvre of great consistency, though diverse in terms of form and content: reflected and sensuous, occasionally complex, poetic and full of humor, always a bit subversive but never injurious. Today he is among the contemporary artists of international renown. Since the 1980s Thomas Schütte …
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Art in General New Commissions For their Art in General New Commission, The Still House Group, an emerging artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, presents +1, a new artist run space in the heart of Chinatown. Housed in a storefront space under the Manhattan Bridge, +1 will present a series of exhibitions by The Still House …
10 Chancery Lane Gallery 10 Chancery Lane Gallery presents Mid Autumn Moon, an exhibition of Hung Liu, one of the most prominent Chinese painters working in the United States today.Chinese history has predominated Hung Liu’s work throughout her career. Born and raised in Beijing during Mao’s Great Leap Forward and trained in the Social Realist …
Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art For the Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art the curator of the main project Catherine de Zegher has selected the title More Light, focusing on the themes of space and time. As she stated “The artists in this Biennale point out an urgent need to enact another kind of …
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art proposes three new exhibition on view from September 27.Wang Keping presents the largest exhibition of his work ever shown in the country, composed of more than 50 works that cover a wide range of different subjects and themes. The artworks range in size from …
Canaletto torna nel luogo dove dipinse un suo capolavoro. All’Abbazia di San Gregorio. Non una mostra ma un’esperienza emozionale. Assaporare, percepire, vivere, da soli, di giorno o di notte Per meno di 50 giorni Canaletto torna, 270 anni dopo, nel luogo in cui creò una delle sue opere più affascinanti, “L’entrata nel Canal Grande dalla …
Capolavori Etruschi, Alberto Giacometti, M. C. Escher e molto altro 28 SETTEMBRE – 13 OTTOBRE 2013ALBERTO GIACOMETTIE IL CAPOLAVORO ESTRUSCO L’OMBRA DELLA SERAPALAZZO MAGNANI – REGGIO EMILIAL’evento sarà ospitato al MUSEO GUARNACCI – VOLTERRA dal 19 ottobre al 3 novembre 2013. Nell’ambito del progetto “ARTE IN AGENDA. A tu per tu con …” ideato …
BOLOGNA A Pirandello questa mostra-performace bolognese di Luca Maria Castelli (allo Spazio9 dal 25 settembre al 9 ottobre) sarebbe di certo molto piaciuta. Nei suoi ritratti fotografici Castelli indaga, come su altro fronte ha fatto il Nobel siciliano, le “una,nessuna centomila” personalità dei soggetti ritratti, restituendone, nelle immagini composte, anzi “Composed” da diversi, singoli, autonomi …
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