Tag: art exhibitions

Gestures of Resistance at the Museum of Contemporary Craft

• February 5, 2010 • Comments (1)
Gestures of Resistance at the Museum of Contemporary Craft

Over the next six months, visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, will be able to observe the day-to-day studio practices of eight artists as they participate in a conceptually provocative and communally based art performance. Working sequentially over two-day to three-week periods, the artists, comprised of six individuals and one pair [...]

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Contemporary Art and Climate Change: RETHINK opens in Copenhagen

• October 24, 2009 • Comments (8)
Tomas Seraceno, Biospheres

The international environmental art exhibition “RETHINK: Contemporary Art and Climate Change” opens in Copenhagen October 31.

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SFMOMA SECA Award Show

• April 23, 2009 • Comments (1)
Trevor Paglen, KEYHOLE-IMPROVED CRYSTAL from Glacier Point

Bay Area art fans still have a few weeks to see the SECA Art Award exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The biennial award is administered by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, an SFMOMA-associated art interest group. Since 1967 the SECA award has honored Bay Area artists of exceptional [...]

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China Design Now: the artistic meaning of “made in China”

• April 18, 2008 • Comments (1)
National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games © Herzog de Meuron

With the amount of protests and editorials regarding the Beijing Summer Olympics, it’s hard not to have China on the mind. Despite what your political standings are, China is big right now; culturally, economically and artistically. China Design Now, currently on at the V&A Museum in London, is the latest attempt in bringing awareness of [...]

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Russian Art – Blue Noses, Red Faces

• October 18, 2007 • Comments (2)
Russian Art – Blue Noses, Red Faces

Next week will see the opening of an exhibition of Russian art at the La Maison Rouge gallery in Paris. Entitled ‘Sots Art: Political Art in Russia From 1972 to Today’ (or l’art politique en Russie depuis 1972, for all you linguaphiles) , the exhibition will showcase examples of the Sots Art movement that began [...]

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