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Keith Haring Foundation disbands authentication committee
September 16, 2012
The Keith Haring Foundation has decided to disband its authentication committee and will no longer review works attributed to the artist. The…
Les and Milly Paris Collection goes under the hammer at Art+Object
September 16, 2012
One of New Zealand's finest private art collections goes under the hammer this week in a two-part auction at Art+Object on Wednesday…
Catch Alicia Frankovich's Floor Resistance at the Auckland Art Gallery today
September 15, 2012
You can see a live performance of Alicia Frankovich's Floor Resistance at the Auckland Art Gallery today. The performance takes place at…
Live performance of Alicia Frankovich's Floor Resistance at the AAG tomorrow
September 14, 2012
You can catch a live performance of Alicia Frankovich's Floor Resistance at the Auckland Art Gallery tomorrow. It takes place in the…
Hirschhorn's new installation grounded in the Concordia disaster
September 14, 2012
When the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off Isola del Giglio, its captain made headlines because he abandoned ship and…
Singapore lifts its art game with the opening of Gillman Barracks
September 13, 2012
The Gillman Barracks cluster of art galleries opens today, marking another step in Singapore's long-running effort to become a cultural hub. “We…
Sharjah Biennial: the production through art and architectural practices of new ways of knowing, thinking and feeling
September 13, 2012
The Sharjah Art Foundation has been slowly releasing the names of the artists selected for the 2013 Sharjah Biennial which is being…
Venice Architecture Biennale: “One foot in the past and the other gingerly testing the new”
September 12, 2012
David Chipperfield's Common Ground at the Venice Architecture Biennale has attracted mixed reviews ranging from “lazy and culturally confused” to “more than…
Independent Curators International launches a book questioning what curating is today
September 12, 2012
“Do curators think in ways that are unique to their profession? Can curatorial thought be distinguished from the thinking processes within the…
Ai Weiwei unimpressed by Hayward Gallery's exhibition Art of Change: New Directions from China
September 11, 2012
Ai Weiwei has dismissed the Hayward Gallery's exhibition Art of Change: New Directions from China, comparing it to “a restaurant in Chinatown.…
Creative Time sends a poetic meditation on the legacy of our civilisation into outer space
September 11, 2012
Creative Time will soon launch The Last Pictures, an archival disc created by artist Trevor Paglen, into outer space, where it will…
Coming up at Starkwhite
September 10, 2012
We are currently installing a new exhibition by Jae Hoon Lee, which includes digitally collaged images from a recent trip to the…
Poland's Lech Walesa asks Putin to pardon Pussy Riot
September 10, 2012
Poland's former leader Lech Walesa has asked Russian President Vladmir Putin to pardon the jailed members of Pussy Riot. The 1983 Nobel…
Nominees announced for the second Independent Vision Curatorial Award
September 9, 2012
The New York-based Independent Curators International has announced the nominees for this year's Independent Vision Curatorial Award. The 15 nominees from a…
Gursky photograph sets new auction record
September 9, 2012
German photographer Andreas Gursky now holds the record for the highest price fetched at auction for a photograph after his Rhein II…
This week at Starkwhite
September 9, 2012
We are deinstalling our downstairs show this week, but Der Tiefenglanz by Karl Fritsch and Gavin Hipkins continues upstairs to 15 September.Image:…
Controversial exhibition opens today at the Dowse Art Museum
September 7, 2012
Security has been beefed up for the opening of In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary at the Dowse Art Museum today. The…
Warhol Foundation to sell art worth $100 million to boost its grant-making capacity
September 6, 2012
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts will sell “thousands” of works from the artist's estate to boost its endowment, currently…
Gavin Hipkins' Second Pavilion closes this weekend
September 6, 2012
Gavin Hipkins' photographic installation Second Pavilion closes tomorrow at 3pm but Der Tiefenglanz, his collaborative project with Karl Fritsch, continues upstairs to…
Downturn in Australian art market puts an end to Deutcher and Hackett's plans to open a new gallery in Gene Sherman's Paddington space
September 5, 2012
The downturn in the Australian art market has put an end to Deutscher and Hackett's plans to start a new high-end gallery…
Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon launch Artists Against Fracking coalition
September 4, 2012
Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon have launched an Artists Against Fracking coalition as New York officials are finalising regulations to govern…
A collector's view on what's happening behind the scenes in the global art market
September 3, 2012
In a recent post titled What's art got to do with it?, Edward Winkleman presents a text by Alain Servais, a Brussels-based…
Golden Lion Awards at the Venice Architecture Biennale
September 2, 2012
The Golden Lion awards at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale have gone to Alvaro Siza (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement), Toyo Ito…
This week at Starkwhite
September 2, 2012
Gavin Hipkins' photographic installation Second Pavilion enters its final week at Starkwhite. The exhibition closes on Saturday at 3pm.Image: Gavin Hipkins, Second…
Campbell's launches a limited edition of Warhol-themed soup cans
September 1, 2012
Campbell's is launching a limited edition of Andy Warhol-themed tomato soup today. Priced at 75 cents each, the cans are intended to…
Karl Fritsch and Gavin Hipkins collaborative exhibition at Starkwhite
August 31, 2012
Der Tiefenglanz II, an exhibition by Karl Fritsch and Gavin Hipkins, continues at Starkwhite alongside Gavin Hipkins' photographic installation Second Pavilion.Image: Karl…
Pierre Huyghe – an artist with a talent for creating a cultural confrontation out of the most unexpected elements
August 31, 2012
ARTINFO Talks to Pierre Huyghe about his Documenta 13 installation and why his work is not performance art. Read more…Image: Pierre Huyghe's…
Wellington's Dominion Post says “No place for women-only exhibit”
August 31, 2012
Wellington's Dominion Post has slammed the Dowse Art Museum for showing a film that only women are allowed to see. In an…
TEMP: an incubator for young artists and curators
August 30, 2012
What is on the minds of young artists and curators today? According to the debut exhibition of a new gallery space in…
Gagosian's $130 million game plan for ArtRio
August 29, 2012
The second edition of ArtRio runs from 12 -16 September in four warehouses in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay. It will feature…
Cultural sensitivity v. sexual discrimination at the Dowse Art Museum
August 28, 2012
Following a complaint to the Human Rights Commission by local resident Paul Young, a senior associate at the law firm Chen Palmer…
Pussy Riot on the run
August 27, 2012
Two members of Pussy Riot have fled Russia to avoid prosecution for the protest against Vladimir Putin that sent three of their…
Gallery says artist's film will be off-limits to men, despite advice from the Human Rights Commission that it could be seen as sexual discrimination
August 26, 2012
The Dowse Art Museum is preparing to screen Qatari writer and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria's film Cinderazahad: For Your Eyes Only in the…
A billboard highlighting the act of looking at the High Line
August 26, 2012
Los Angeles-based conceptual photographer Elad Lassry has created the latest billboard for New York's High Line, the fifth in the series that…
Billy Apple's New Zealand flag auctioned to raise money for Tame Iti's appeal against his Urewera Raids conviction
August 24, 2012
Recently Billy Apple produced a study for a flag based on Statistic New Zealand's 2006 Census data. The flag's composition is determined…
Reading Room: The Space of Reading
August 23, 2012
Reading Room is a peer-reviewed journal of contemporary art and culture published annually by the E H McCormick Research Library at Auckland…
Jean Nouvel beats out a cluster of starchitects for the design of the new National Art Museum of China
August 23, 2012
According to a report in Architectural Record, Jean Nouvel has headed off a cluster of high-profile starchitects, including Zaha Hadid and Frank…
Can Frank Gehry deliver the Bilbao effect in Panama?
August 22, 2012
Fifteen years after the completion of the Guggenheim Bilbao, Frank Gehry is close to finishing his first project in Latin America where…
No takers for Saatchi's offer to gift a £30m collection to the nation
August 21, 2012
According to the Guardian, Charles Saatchi's proposal to gift a collection of art worth £30 million to the nation is still without…
Hans Ulrich Obrist on fly-in, fly-out curating
August 21, 2012
In an article in the Financial Times, Hans Ulrich Obrist urges curators “to shape exhibitions as long-duration projects” and dismisses “fly-in, fly-out…
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