Selected works from the 38th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition
Art Escape
ARTBAHRAIN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE THIRD EDITION OF BEIRUT ART FAIR
FEATURED ARTIST: RASHID AL KHALIFA
5 - 8 JULY 2012 at the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (BIEL)
Passion for Art
Art Fairs
Review
Interview
Call for Artist
Books
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
Exhibition Videos
This is one of the eight short videos in the exhibition created by Baz Luhrmann. In the videos, Miuccia Prada talks with Schiaparelli, who is played by actress Judy Davis. "Schiap" and Prada are seated at a dining table in a dialogue created using paraphrased excerpts from Schiaparelli's autobiography, Shocking Life, and Prada's filmed remarks. Viewers have the impression of eavesdropping on a fantastical meeting of two great fashion minds.
EDVARD MUNCH’S THE SCREAM SETS THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR ANY WORK OF ART AT AUCTION:
NEW YORK. AUCTION HISTORY was made at Sotheby’s tonight when Edvard Munch’s iconic masterpiece The Scream sold for $119,922,500 / £73,921,284 / €91,033,826 in New York, marking a new world record for any work of art at auction*.
$119,922,500 / £73,921,284 / €91,033,826
Kiki Smith's Chorus on View in Times Square
NEW YORK. ART PRODUCTION Fund is pleased to present Chorus by Kiki Smith, the third installation at The Last Lot project space on 46th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City.
An Interview with
Whether she adorns the entrance of the World Bank Building in Washington DC or simply creates designs to hang on walls - BELKIS BALPINAR, an artist, an iconoclast - developed her own visual language of abstraction using ‘kilim’ structure to create artworks.
Art Statements I Art Basel 2012 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde BOOTH S2614 17 June 2012
ROKNI HAERIZADEH ‘Fictionville’ series and ‘Just What is it That Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing?’ video animation
Art 43 Basel: The Premier International Art Show Taking place in Basel, Switzerland from June 14 to June 17, 2012, Art 43 Basel will again present a premier selection of the most influential and cutting-edge galleries from across the world. Every June, Art Basel marks the summer reunion of the international artworld, hosted by the city of Basel, which has been a cultural capital for centuries.
Biennial
The Deep of the Modern
ORIENT AND OCCIDENT. Austrian Painters Travelling
Lower Belvedere, Vienna 29 June - 14 October
Keith Sonnier: Lichtblicke I BMW Museum, Munich until 26 August
Jeff Koons
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen until 2 September
Asger Jorn : A free artist Fondation de l’Hermitage, LAUSANNE June 22 to October 21, 2012
Niki de Saint Phalle:
The Girl, the Monster
and the Goddess
Moderna Museet Malmö until 9 September
Born out of Necessity Museum of Modern Art, NY Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor until 28 January 2013
Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse:
Visions of Arcadia
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
20 June - 3 September
ALEX KATZ
Tate St Ives
until 23 September
SIGNS & SYMBOLS THIRD IN SERIES OF SIX SHOWS REASSESSING THE COLLECTION Whitney Museum of American Art 28 June - 28 October
Referencing History CURATED BY JANE NEAL AND INTRODUCING THE WORKS OF RENOWNED EASTERN EUROPEAN ARTISTS TO THE REGION Green Art Gallery, Dubai until 15 July
SENSES & SENSIBILITIES
HEND AL FALAFLY
Chiharu Shiota's
Other Side
Haunch of Venison, NY
until 16 June
Ringing of Waves Omar Al Rashid's show at the Art Centre still ringing
"...putting the culture of Muharraq at the
forefront in its time of regeneration."
Art Sawa | DIFC, Dubai - until 19 June
The First U.S. Exhibition Featuring Artist's Window Installation
Mohamed Kanoo Meem Gallery, Dubai until 5 July
GLOBAL STONE WORKSHOP® & SCULPTURE PLATFORM INDIA®
A festival of beauty on Lake Como The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2012celebrates cars and motorcycles +++ Alfa Romeo, 6C 1750 GS is awarded the Trofeo BMW Group +++ BMW Zagato Coupé marks its world premiere +++ Gilera 500 wins the motorcycle Concorso.
Rough Cut By Alan GoulbouneAl Riwaq Art Space Bahrain 29April
Fareed Buqais
Solo Exhibition
Bahrain Art Society
22April
The Gallery Inauguration Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 19 May
Registration is open for five bronze and stone workshops for Winter 2012-2013
Festival
FREE TUESDAY SUMMER 2012 PROGRAMS
Tuesdays on
the Terrace
5 June - 25 September
Farmers Market
5 June - 23 October
Summer Studios
19 June - 28 August
IMPERIAL CITIES, PRINCELY ESTATES Prague, Brno & Vienna 17 to 27 June
Travel with the Met
Hadid
Philip Jodidio
Audacious futurism The forward-thinking work of a singular architect Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim.
Bernard Rice:
The Unknown
Father of Egyptian
Printmaking
Dr. Yasser Mongy
Rice was one of the most influential British artists in the development of relief printing, prominent during the first half of the twentieth century, and restored one of the most famous ancient Egyptian monuments.
Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh David Joselit
ART SINCE
1900
The European Biennial of Contemporary Art 2 June - 30 September, 2012 Genk, Limburg, Belgium