
Peter Stichbury opens at Tracy Williams Ltd, NY
Peter Stichbury's exhibition The Proteus Effect opens tomorrow night at Tracy Williams Ltd New York and runs to 30 October 2010. The exhibition features five paintings and a suite of prints reflecting the metamorphosis that occurs through digital self-representation via the use of avatars and invented personas. This link takes you to the exhibition press release.

ShContemporary launched this week with a curated exhibition and Hou Hanru conference
ShContemporary, the Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair, takes place this week from 9 – 12 September 2010.

Billy Apple's String Piece


Catching the eye of international curators

From Gambia Castle to GAK

Hye Rim Lee's Bunny Luv

Jae Hoon Lee's Farm

A new broom sweeps through Creative New Zealand

Leigh Davis flag poems at JAR


Coming up at Starkwhite

JAR presents a 300-day exhibition of Leigh Davis flag poems

Alicia Frankovich takes up Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Residency in Berlin


Going virtual: are traditional art fairs history?

Yin Xiuzhen's Black Hole on New Plymouth's foreshore

Six new ideas for the Fourth Plinth commission
Over the past four years the 'empty' fourth plinth in the Northwest corner of Trafalgar Square has featured works by Marc Quinn, Thomas Schutte, Anthony Gormley and the current commission Yinka Shonibare's Nelson's Shop in a Bottle. You can see six new ideas for the next Fourth Plinth commission here.

Ground Zero: final week
Jae Hoon Lee's exhibition Ground Zero runs for one more week, closing on Saturday 28 August 2010. This link takes you to an eyeCONTACT review of the show.

Blockbuster paves the way for Turrell's new skyspace installation

NGA unveils James Turrell installation


Do you really expect to get paid?
16% of artists earn less than $10,000 a year directly from their art, although 5% earn more than $100,000.
A third to half of Australia's artists put their skills to use in other industries.
Arts bureaucrats and administrators have a higher and more secure income than artists.

NZ curators head to Asia

A private collection goes public today

Art Gwangju 2010

Grant Stevens: Horizons
Grant Stevens' exhibition Horizons opened at GBK last night and runs to 4 September 2010.

NZ writer picks up MoMA internship

Seung Yul Oh at the Melbourne Art Fair

Record-breaking Biennale of Sydney
Image: Cockatoo Island, Sydney

More images from Ground Zero


Martin Basher: High Class Boner Meds / Paradise Sale
Martin Basher's exhibition High Class Boner Meds / Paradise Sale follows his three-month residency at the Colin McCahon House. You can see our earlier post on the residency here.

Grant Stevens to take up a residency in China

Jae Hoon Lee: Ground Zero


Reference time…again

Micro Sites art trail
Auckland's latest public art project was launched on Saturday 31 July 2010 with a guided tour of the commissioned artworks. Micro Sites is a series of 12 small, temporary art projects by 13 artists aimed at providing subtle and unexpected surprises for people walking through Auckland's Learning Quarter. You can find a Micro Sites location map here, along with descriptions and images of the works.