American artist Nancy Spero died on 18 October in New York. She was 83. Active as a pioneer of feminist art from the late 1950s, her figurative art addressed the realities of inequality between the sexes and political violence. SperoView More >
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Primitive 10.1 – 2010.1.3 Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris http://www.mam.paris.fr/
Anish Kapoor
9.26 – 12.11 Royal Academy of Arts (London) 10.14-11.14 Lisson Gallery (London) Shooting into the Corner 2008-09 Mixed media Photo Dave Morgan Major solo exhibitions for the pioneering sculptor and Turner Prize winner. At the Academy, the centerpiece will be the massive,View More >
Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider
9.24 – 2.28 Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) Yearning Melancholy Red 2008 Courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin Photo © Scott Groller In her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the South Korean artist presents a major installation,View More >
Sotheby’s London posts results
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Including Arab & Iranian Art sale on 16 October in London realized a total of £12,757,125 from 158 lots sold. The top lot was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Fuego Flores (1983) fetching £959,650, followed by Anish Kapoor’s Untitled (1997)View More >
Araki Nobuyoshi @ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
The Faces of Japan 10.10 – 12.6 http://www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp/web/index.html ART iT picks: Araki Nobuyoshi: Faces of Hiroshima
New Sensations 2009 awarded
IqtjlX5JO-Y The Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 have awarded the 2009 New Sensations prize to 24-year-old Oliver Beer. Established to support art students graduating in the UK and to find new talent, New Sensations 2009 also presented the works ofView More >
Gavin Brown’s enterprise @ Frieze Art Fair (London)
10.14 – 18 Frieze Art Fair http://www.friezeartfair.com/ Rirkrit Tiravanija Gavin Brown’s enterprise (New York) http://www.gavinbrown.biz/ Back to Index
Gagosian Gallery @ Frieze Art Fair (London)
10.14 – 18 Frieze Art Fair http://www.friezeartfair.com/ Gagosian Gallery http://www.gagosian.com/ Ed Ruscha Mark Grotjahn Back to Index
Rosalind Nashashibi
9.10 – 11.1 Institute for Contemporary Arts (London) Jack Straw’s Castle 2009 16mm film Photo Will Martin First major survey of Palestinian-British artist Rosalind Nashashibi, including 16mm films from her last four years of work and photographs. A look at how identityView More >
Walid Raad: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow
9.29 – 10.31 Anthony Reynolds Gallery (London) Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World Part I_Volume I_ Chapter I_Beirut (1992-2005) Appendix XVIII: Plate 93_Untitled and/or A History of a Ministry archival inkjet onView More >
Marian Goodman Gallery @ Frieze Art Fair (London)
10.14 – 18 Frieze Art Fair http://www.friezeartfair.com/ Marian Goodman Gallery http://www.mariangoodman.com/ John Baldessari John Baldessari William Kentridge Chritian Boltanski Back to Index