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Alicia Frankovich talks about her Walters Prize project on Arts on Sunday

Alicia Frankovich talks about her Walters Prize project on Arts on Sunday

July 28, 2012
Alicia Frankovich is one of the four artists shortlisted for this year's Walters Prize. She talks about Floor Resistance, the work selected by…
Final night of Move Towards the Light on Auckland's waterfront

Final night of Move Towards the Light on Auckland's waterfront

July 28, 2012
Move Towards the Light, a series of video and laser projects and light sculptures running after dark on the Auckland waterfront, ends…
Former MOCA chief executive urges Eli Broad to remove Jeffrey Deitch

Former MOCA chief executive urges Eli Broad to remove Jeffrey Deitch

July 27, 2012
In an email sent to Eli Broad and obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Charles Young, the former chief executive of the…
Taxman's claim for a share of gambling winnings places MONA's future at risk

Taxman's claim for a share of gambling winnings places MONA's future at risk

July 27, 2012
Fears that Hobart's wildly successful Museum of Old and New Art may close if the Australian Tax Office goes after the eccentric…
India asks Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art to remove a politically sensitive work from Indian Highway exhibition

India asks Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art to remove a politically sensitive work from Indian Highway exhibition

July 26, 2012
Video artist Tejal Shah's art work I Love my India has been removed from the Indian Highway exhibition at the Ullens Centre…
Artists light up Auckland's waterfront

Artists light up Auckland's waterfront

July 25, 2012
Over the next few days, visitors to Auckland's waterfront will encounter a series of video and laser projections and light sculptures staged…
Artist-led group MOCA Mobilization is back on the case

Artist-led group MOCA Mobilization is back on the case

July 25, 2012
The Los Angeles Times reports the artist-led group known as MOCA Mobilization is back. Founded in 2008 by artists Cindy Bernard and…
What is the role of art criticism in mainstream media today?

What is the role of art criticism in mainstream media today?

July 24, 2012
Frieze has asked art critics and editors of cultural publications around the world to tell them how they see the role of…
Tino Sehgal fills the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with story tellers

Tino Sehgal fills the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with story tellers

July 23, 2012
Guardian critic Jonathan Searle was at the launch of Tino Sehgal's commissioned work, These Associations, at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. Read…
Roberta Smith's take on the MOCA meltdown

Roberta Smith's take on the MOCA meltdown

July 23, 2012
In her NYT article A Los Angeles Museum on Life-Support, Roberta Smith says Jeffrey Deitch needs to stop organising exhibitions and learn…
Jeffrey Deitch reponds to his critics

Jeffrey Deitch reponds to his critics

July 22, 2012
Jeffrey Deitch has defended his exhibition record at MOCA and dismissed suggestions by some board members, including in an open letter published…
The 10 best Eames designs

The 10 best Eames designs

July 22, 2012
On the eve of the UK release of a documentary about Charles and Ray Eames, the Guardian presents a selection of their…
Tino Sehgal at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

Tino Sehgal at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

July 21, 2012
In the latest issue of Modern Painters (via ARTINFO) performance artist Tino Sehgal talks about his upcoming commission at the Tate Modern's…
Melbourne Art Fair to be managed by ART HK founder Tim Etchells

Melbourne Art Fair to be managed by ART HK founder Tim Etchells

July 20, 2012
Over the past decade the Melbourne Art Fair has seen the arrival of an array of new fairs in the region, such…
Saatchi Online launches a global platform for curators

Saatchi Online launches a global platform for curators

July 20, 2012
Saatchi Online has launched a new exhibition created by curators from around the globe. Billed as a project to promote up-and-coming artists,…
The MOCA meltdown as “an apt metaphor for our crisis-plagued times”

The MOCA meltdown as “an apt metaphor for our crisis-plagued times”

July 19, 2012
In an ARTINFO article, Ben Davis traces the troubled history of MOCA from the days of 2008 when its financial problems first…
Tate Modern aims to bring performance art and video installation to a wider public in The Tanks

Tate Modern aims to bring performance art and video installation to a wider public in The Tanks

July 18, 2012
The first phase of the Tate Modern's underground extension has opened to the public. The vast spaces beneath the old Bankside Power…
Artists announced for the 9th Gwangju Biennale

Artists announced for the 9th Gwangju Biennale

July 18, 2012
The 90 artists and collectives selected for ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale have been announced. You can see the list hereImage: Dane…
MOCA's troubles intensify with the resignation of all four artists on the museum board

MOCA's troubles intensify with the resignation of all four artists on the museum board

July 17, 2012
All four artists on MOCA's board of trustees have resigned, raising further questions about the direction the museum is taking under the…
Frank Gehry designs a duplex for Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation

Frank Gehry designs a duplex for Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation

July 16, 2012
Since it was launched in 2007 to help rebuild the flood-ruined lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Brad Pitt's Make it Right…
This week at Starkwhite

This week at Starkwhite

July 15, 2012
Greetings from Los Angeles continues at Starkwhite to 6 August.
MOCA's disco show is a bridge too far for John Baldessari

MOCA's disco show is a bridge too far for John Baldessari

July 15, 2012
John Baldessari has stepped down from the board of the LA's Museum of Contemporary Art. He said his reasons include the recent…
Olafur Eliasson's sun-inspired product with a social purpose

Olafur Eliasson's sun-inspired product with a social purpose

July 13, 2012
Olafur Eliasson's latest project is a solar-powered lamp that he and his engineer partner Frederik Ottesen have designed to be widely distributed…
Occupy movement welcomed to Documenta

Occupy movement welcomed to Documenta

July 12, 2012
The Occupy movement has targeted a number of art institutions around the world, most recently in Germany where Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, has welcomed…
Dane Mitchell at Volker Bradtke, Dusseldorf

Dane Mitchell at Volker Bradtke, Dusseldorf

July 12, 2012
Dane Mitchell is in the group show WHY DO BIRDS SUDDENLY APPEAR? at Volker Bradtke, Dusseldorf. Curated by Matt Moravec and Kyle…
Hans Ulrich Obrist's Institute of the 21st Century

Hans Ulrich Obrist's Institute of the 21st Century

July 11, 2012
Hans Ulrich Obrist's Institute of the 21st Century (i21c) will be launched on 29 July. i21c is a non-profit initiative to consolidate…
David Walsh says a $40 million tax bill won't force the closure of his Museum of Old and New Art

David Walsh says a $40 million tax bill won't force the closure of his Museum of Old and New Art

July 10, 2012
The Museum of Old and New Art is back in the news with reports that mathematician turned gambler David Walsh is in…
Damien Hirst enters the fast-food brand game

Damien Hirst enters the fast-food brand game

July 9, 2012
Damien Hirst, the artist who became a brand, has entered the fast-food brand game, lending an artwork to Burger King as it…
Greetings from Los Angeles opens tonight at Starkwhite

Greetings from Los Angeles opens tonight at Starkwhite

July 9, 2012
Greetings from Los Angeles opens tonight at 6:00pm and runs to 6 August 2012. Exhibition curator Brian Butler will be at the…
Young Curators Season 2013

Young Curators Season 2013

July 8, 2012
The Palais de Tokyo sees participating in the renewal of the ecosystem of art as part of its remit. With this in…
How performance art took over

How performance art took over

July 8, 2012
Marina Abramovic's head-to-heads with her audience have been captured in a new film, while The Tanks, the world's first gallery dedicated to…
dOCUMENTA [13]: the most important exhibition of the 21st century?

dOCUMENTA [13]: the most important exhibition of the 21st century?

July 6, 2012
ARTINFO reports on why Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's Documenta may be the most important exhibition of the 21st Century. Read more…
European musuems launch ARTtube

European musuems launch ARTtube

July 5, 2012
Five European museums, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Gemeentemuseum at the Hague, have launched an online video channel for…
Preview of Douglas Gordon's new video The End of Civilisation

Preview of Douglas Gordon's new video The End of Civilisation

July 5, 2012
The Guardian is offering a preview of Douglas Gordon's new video The End of Civilisation. It's his first ever film in England,…
Jean-Hubert Martin presents another ground-breaking exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art

Jean-Hubert Martin presents another ground-breaking exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art

July 4, 2012
Built by Australian gambling wizard David Walsh to house his private art collection, the Museum of Old and New Art has been…
A biennale addressing the Eurocentrism of knowledge in modern times

A biennale addressing the Eurocentrism of knowledge in modern times

July 3, 2012
The theme of the 2013 Sharjah Biennial is the courtyard and its metaphorical conditions in a globalised world. Recently curator Yuko Hasegawa,…
The Gallery of Lost Art

The Gallery of Lost Art

July 3, 2012
A new Tate-sponsored website called the Gallery of Lost Art has been set up to showcase modern and contemporary pieces that have…
Sydney Biennale presents “a vision of art as a cathartic experience capable of healing wounds and building bridges”

Sydney Biennale presents “a vision of art as a cathartic experience capable of healing wounds and building bridges”

July 1, 2012
Sewing, basket-weaving, music-making, story-telling and other communal activities are at the heart of the 18th Biennale of Sydney. The exhibition, spread over…
Coming up at Starkwhite

Coming up at Starkwhite

July 1, 2012
This week we are installing Greetings from Los Angeles, which opens on Tuesday 10 July at 6pm.
Pointing at Trees – final day

Pointing at Trees – final day

June 29, 2012
Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Pointing at Trees, closes today at 3pm.Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Pointing at Trees, installation view
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