The 2022 edition of India Art Fair, the leading platform that showcases modern and contemporary art from South Asia, was presented from April 28 to May 1 at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi. It comprised 77 exhibitors, including 63 galleries and 14 institutional participants from 16 cities in India and beyond.
Included Shilpa Gupta at Vadehra Art Gallery.
Read MoreIn autumn 2022, the Royal Academy of Arts will host a major exhibition of the work of the internationally celebrated South African artist and Honorary Royal Academician, William Kentridge (b. 1955). Working closely with the artist and his studio, this ambitious and immersive exhibition has been specifically curated for the Royal Academy and will encompass the broad repertoire of Kentridge’s forty-year career. It will bring together important works spanning from the 1980s through to the present day, including charcoal drawings, animated films, a mechanical theatre, sculptures, tapestries and performance pieces.
Read MoreThat museum bedroom will also include fairy tale-inspired cloth dolls by Kiki Smith that combine 19th-century folk art forms with her own painting. “I’m very appreciative of the creativity of the past,” Ms. Smith said, but “for it to live,” she added, “you have to re-embellish it or revitalize it, or breathe life into a form.”
Read MoreLONDON — Billions of us have spent the past two or so years trying to divine the future. Will I get Covid-19? How bad will it be? When will the coronavirus pandemic end? Will it ever end? Reliable answers have been scant; even if we’ve been cushioned from the worst effects, many people have been camping in a sort of existential waiting room, living in near-permanent uncertainty. Appropriate timing, then, that the Barbican arts center in London is about to stage a chamber opera, by the South African artist William Kentridge, about how difficult it is to see around the next corner. Titled “Waiting for the Sibyl,” it retells the myth of a Greek prophetess whom mortals once pestered with exactly these sort of exasperating questions.
Read MoreThe benefit for Médecins Sans Frontières will be held during Christie’s Marquee 20/21 Sales of 20th and 21st Century Art in May and will include a collection of donated works by Ukrainian and international artists such as Yoshimoto Nara’s caricature portraits of girls (with estimates of $100,000-$150,000 and $80,000-$120,000), Boris Mikhailov’s 1970s Soviet life series Yesterday’s Sandwich (est. $3,000-$5,000), and works by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and Olafur Eliasson.
Read MoreThe works in the gift display a broad range of artistic themes and strategies. Many in the grouping, including major highlights by Robert Gober, David Hammons, and Kiki Smith, challenge the social norms and political structures that regulate our bodies and identities. In ways that have never seemed more urgent, they craft new understandings of our individual places in the world, serving as a bold affirmation of the link between human freedom and creative expression.
Read MoreDans la rotonde du musée Guimet, à Paris, des cordelettes tirées du sol au plafond forment une nasse écarlate renfermant un socle blanc. Dessus, un mobilier minuscule : canapés, chaises, tables ou vaisselier de maison de poupée. Chaque meuble, chaque assiette est captif d’un entrelacs de fils rouges. Celle qui tire les ficelles s’appelle Chiharu Shiota.
Read MoreWhile a permanent collection show typically does not spark fireworks enough to make a special trip, the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth’s exhibition focusing on the institution’s last 20 years of acquisitions offers a fascinating glimpse into the sometimes opaque inner workings of collecting. Scholarship often seeks to elucidate the ways in which artworks reflect the period of creation, but equally important is how artworks respond to the time in which they were acquired into major public collections.
Read More“Society consumes both the good girl and the bad girl,” Argentine artist Silvia Kolbowski once said. “But somewhere between those two polarities, space must be made for criticality.”The quote was included in a statement from MoMA about the opening of Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists this coming weekend. The statement sums up perfectly the nature of the collection, which is neither a chronological history, nor a linear account, but an approach to the medium from a “contemporary, intersectional feminist perspective,” in the museum’s words.
Read MoreRichter, who lives in the western city of Cologne, donated five art prints of his famous candle paintings in an extra-large format to "Kunst hilft Geben" (or Art Helps Give), a non-profit organization in Cologne. The Richter prints are estimated to have a value of at least €30,000 ($32,500) each, according to Dirk Kästel, initiator and chairman of the board at Art Helps Give. The proceeds of the sales are earmarked for refugees from Ukraine as well as for war victims in the country. Kästel said his organization sends them medicine and food among others. "We also provide aid in Ukraine's border region with the help of our cooperation partners." And Richter is not the only contributor to the organization's campaign: 44 artists have already donated 108 works of art for the cause, including Rosemarie Trockel.
Read MoreOno proposes communal mending as an act of healing. In a seemingly simple white room, shattered cups and saucers are placed on a table. Participants are asked to mend the fragments together using common household items: twine, glue, scissors, and tape. The resulting works are displayed on nearby shelves, evidence of the power of collective action.
Read MoreThe fourth edition of Art Düsseldorf will take place from 8 to 10 April, 2022 in the halls of Areal Böhler in Düsseldorf. As a fair for the most significant developments in contemporary art and the latest trends in the art market, Art Düsseldorf benefits from the top-class collector community of North Rhine-Westphalia and neighboring European countries. Here, Art Düsseldorf reaches almost 90% of all European collectors.
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