Dak’Art 2014

Dak’Art, the Dakar Biennale, is the major contemporary art event in Africa. This year Dak’Art takes place from May 9 to June 8 in Dakar, Senegal and will gather many artists and visual art professionals from Africa and the world. Curators for this edition are Elise Atangana, Abdelkader Damani and Smooth Ugochukwu Nzewi. The Dakar …

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Frieze New York 2014

Frieze New York 2014 showcases art by over 1,000 of the world’s leading artists, bringing together 190 of the world’s most important contemporary art galleries. Frieze New York is located in the unique settings of Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan. Projects Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze New York. It is curated by Cecilia …

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A Fano tutta la carica rivoluzionaria della Poesia Visiva

Alla Galleria Carifano, per iniziativa della Fondazione Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, dal 30 aprile al 28 giugno 2014 verrà presentata la grande mostra dedicata alla Poesia visiva, la corrente artistica sviluppatasi nei primi decenni della seconda metà del Novecento come ricerca di rottura degli schemi tra le arti che si era rafforzata negli anni tra le …

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Disobedience Archive (The Park)

Salt Beyoğlu presents Disobedience Archive in a specially created architectural setting by Herkes için Mimarlık (Architecture for All). Disobedience Archive is an ongoing, multi-phase video archive and platform of discussion dealing with the relationship between artistic practices and political action. In particular, the videos and ephemera at Salt Beyoğlu survey forms of “disobedience” from the …

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Ten Million Rooms of Yearning: Sex in Hong Kong

Presented in 5 venues throughout Hong Kong, this exhibition looks at the connections between sex, desire and Hong Kong’s society and historical conditions. It explores the many ways in which sex and desire are manifested, hidden, altered, and replaced by various factors, from family structure and class, to architecture’s role in shaping intimacy, to capitalism’s over-determination …

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The Emerging Caribbean Art Scene: interview with András Szántó

Mara Sartore: From your perspective, as the advisor of the Davidoff Art Initiative, how do you see the development of art in Santo Domingo and in the Caribbean in general? What steps have already been taken and what do you think should be done in the near future? András Szántó: The way I would characterise …

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Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance 1980-1981

Carriageworks, Sydney, presents One Year Performance 1980-1981 (also known as Time Clock Piece) by Tehching Hsieh. This is the first time a major solo exhibition of the Taiwanese-American performance artist’s work has been seen in Australia. Hsieh has long been a cult figure in the New York contemporary art world – Marina Abramovic has referred …

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