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Venice Biennale, The Nationals: Romanian Pavilion

AiA Staff — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:00 +0100

For those who have the 55th Venice Biennale on their itineraries, we offer quick picks in the form of slide shows or videos, appearing over the coming days, of one- and two-person shows at the national pavilions. With 88 countries participating, 10 for the first time, it's impossible to be comprehensive. So we aim to serve visitors with limited time, attending just the two main venues: Giardini and Arsenale. Wherever you wander in Venice, however, keep your eyes peeled for the red Biennale logo, signaling nationals tucked into churches and palazzi.

Killed by Matisse in 1941, Courthion's Interviews Are Resurrected

michèle c. cone — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100

A book due out from the Getty Research Institute next month unearths nine conversations with Henri Matisse that have remained unseen for over 70 years. Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview, edited by Serge Guilbaut, consists of writer Pierre Courthion's lengthy exchanges with the French artist, which Matisse suppressed.

Venice Biennale, The Nationals: Greek Pavilion

AiA Staff — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:30:00 +0100

For those who have the 55th Venice Biennale on their itineraries, we offer quick picks in the form of slide shows, appearing over the coming days, of one- and two-person shows at the national pavilions. With 88 countries participating, 10 for the first time, it's impossible to be comprehensive. So we aim to serve visitors with limited time, attending just the two main venues: Giardini and Arsenale. Wherever you wander in Venice, however, keep your eyes peeled for the red Biennale logo, signaling nationals tucked into churches and palazzi.

Michigan Attorney General Rules out Sale of Detroit Institute's Art

Brian Boucher — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:30:00 +0100

"The art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts is held by the City of Detroit in charitable trust for the people of Michigan, and no piece in the collection may thus be sold, conveyed, or transferred to satisfy City debts or obligations," Schuette writes.

MoMA Appoints Stuart Comer Chief Curator, Media And Performance Art

Brian Boucher — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0100

He will also be busy as a co-curator of the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and will work with both institutions concurrently until March 2014.

Change at the Helm of the New-York Historical Society

vyoma venkataraman — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:15:00 +0100

The New-York Historical Society has announced that after eight years of service, vice president and director of the museum division, Linda S. Ferber, will resign from her position on Jan. 1, 2014. Taking over her role will be curator and art historian Brian T. Allen, currently director of the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Mass.

Venice Biennale, The Nationals: Poland

AiA Staff — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:30:00 +0100

For those who have the 55th Venice Biennale on their itineraries, we offer quick picks in the form of slide shows and videos, appearing over the coming days, of one- and two-person shows at the national pavilions. With 88 countries participating, 10 for the first time, it's impossible to be comprehensive. So we aim to serve visitors with limited time, attending just the two main venues: Giardini and Arsenale. Wherever you wander in Venice, however, keep your eyes peeled for the red Biennale logo, signaling nationals tucked into churches and palazzi.

Bank of America Awards Conservation Grants

Sarah Cascone — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:15:00 +0100

This year, 24 museums in 16 countries have been awarded grants totaling about $1.5 million from the program, which provides funding to support the conservation of significant works of art.

Reading the Palace

Travis Jeppesen — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:40:00 +0100

This year's director of the Venice Biennale, Massimiliano Gioni, has titled the main exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace:" in other words, a Museum of Everything. Indeed, the grandiosity of the concept could have easily concealed a too-vague means of snapshotting a curator's anxious, up-to-the-second notion of "the contemporary." Yet Gioni, associate director and director of exhibitions at New York's New Museum, is too clever to make such a fatal mistake.

Venice Biennale, The Nationals: Nordic Pavilion

AiA Staff — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100

The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss

AiA Staff — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100

This week we check out Ugo Rondinone's army of stone people at Gladstone Gallery, iconic early work by Richard Serra at David Zwirner and loosely connected work by seven photographers at Callicoon Fine Arts.

Abraaj Group Art Prize Winners Announced

vyoma venkataraman — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:15:00 +0100

Established in 2008, the prize is organized by The Abraaj Group, a Dubai-based private equities manager, to encourage artistic development in the MENASA region, which comprises the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.

Contingent Views: Dance at the Kitchen

Catherine Damman — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:30:00 +0100

Dance and Process is one of the Kitchen's longest-running programs. Inaugurated in 1995, the series alloys the familiar artist's residency with the promise of structured feedback, pairing a group of emerging artists with an established choreographer. Typically, 10 weeks of productive exchange culminate in a presentation of the final work. This year's participants—Kira Alker and Elke Luyten, Anna Azrieli, Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen (with Sarah Michelson at the helm)—ably disrupted expectations about how this process should be exhibited.

Venice Biennale, The Nationals: Lebanon

AiA Staff — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100

For those who have the 55th Venice Biennale on their itineraries, weoffer quick picks in the form of slide shows, appearing over the comingdays, of one- and two-person shows at the national pavilions. With 88countries participating, 10 for the first time, it's impossible to becomprehensive. So we aim to serve visitors with limited time, attendingjust the two main venues: Giardini and Arsenale. Wherever you wander inVenice, however, keep your eyes peeled for the red Biennale logo,signaling nationals tucked into churches and palazzi.

Venice Biennale, The Nationals: Portugal

AiA Staff — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100

China: One Country, Three Pavilions

Richard Vine — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100

Every two years, the art world gets a vivid reminder of China's complex sovereignty issues and ongoing identity concerns—in the form of three separate pavilions at the Venice Biennale.

Art Season in Tulsa: A Look at the New Philbrook Downtown

Brienne Walsh — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:00:00 +0100

On June 13, the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Okla., will open Philbrook Downtown, a 30,000-square-foot, two-story satellite space in a brick warehouse in the Brady Arts District. Designed in a minimalist, white-cube style by Gluckman Mayner Architects, the New York-based firm responsible for the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Penn., and numerous other art venues, the new galleries will be devoted to the display of modern, contemporary and Native American art, as well as research and programming.

Venice Biennale, The Nationals: The Netherlands

AiA Staff — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:20:00 +0100

Sotheby's and Jancou Battle in Appeals Court over Cady Noland Artwork

Tracy Zwick — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:45:00 +0100

A New York state appeals court heard arguments yesterday in a multimillion-dollar clash between Sotheby's and Marc Jancou Contemporary Gallery involving Cady Noland's Cowboys Milking (1990).

Venice Biennale, The Nationals: Serbia

AiA Staff — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100