Museums
QUEENSLAND, Australia — Established in 1993, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s flagship international contemporary art event, and the only major exhibition series in...
LONDON — The ongoing protest against the Tate sponsorship agreement with oil and gas giant BP again took center stage last week, when fifteen Tate Members sent a letter to the Tate Members Council, chaired by...
Billed as six solo shows under a common umbrella, “Endless Renaissance” opens at the Bass Museum in Miami today and is on view through March 17. While it’s difficult to tease out the explicit thematic links that draw the work together (from Hans-Peter...
For almost forty years, Martha Rosler has been hosting garage sales of the standard American variety wherein visitors may browse through random assortments of used goods, from books and dishes to lingerie and porn, in the hopes of scoring something...
The Louvre has recently launched a major fundraising appeal to acquire two 13th-century ivory statuettes, which would complete a permanent part of its collection. Its “Tous Mécènes!” or “Everyone a Patron!” project invites the public to donate funds to...
The following open letter by art critic Sholem Krishtalka was published by ARTINFO Canada on Novemer 13. Dear letter-writers to the Art Gallery of Ontario,My Facebook feed has lately been playing host to an increased number of your open letters....
NEW YORK — Two Metropolitan Museum of Art members filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court yesterday alleging that the historically free, public institution has been deceiving visitors into paying entry fees.A (recently raised) fee of $25 is the...
WHAT: “Activist New York”WHEN: OngoingWHERE: Puffin Foundation Gallery, Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, New YorkWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: New York City has been an epicenter for cultural movements and change in America...
PARIS — Through January 6, 2013, Paris’s Louis Vuitton Foundation offers a tour through the complex and often polarized terrain of today's Turkish art scene with “Journeys: Wanderings Through Contemporary Turkey.” Works by 11 Turkish artists are on...
In the weeks following her death in May 2011, it looked as though the reclusive 104-year-old Huguette Clark was poised to reshape Santa Barbara with her art legacy. Much to the community’s delight, her lawyers announced that Bellosguardo, Clark...
