Tate reappoints Jessica Morgan
Tate has reappointed Jessica Morgan as The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art. With the renewal of the funding by the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece. The post, which has been funded by the Collection for the past three years, has now been extended for a further three-year period until 2016. Jessica will continue to mainly focus on acquisitions of contemporary and emerging international art, specifically non-western regions,...
Bouchra Khalili: First solo show in Canada
French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili is having a solo show in Toronto 3 September – 27 October 2013 with recent works featuring Malcolm X, Mahmoud Darwish and Mohamed ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi, among others. Bouchra Khalili: The Opposite of the Voice-Over features two of the artist’s major recent projects, The Mapping Journey and Speeches. Bouchra Khalili’s work often takes the form of video installations, among other mediums,...
New Sensations Finalists
Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery have announced the shortlist and finalists for this year’s New Sensations Prize. The work of 20 young artists will be exhibited in an exhibition in London opening on 12 October. Twenty graduates from BA and MA courses at UK and the Republic of Ireland colleges and universities have been chosen by the judges: the artists Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin; Nick Hackworth, founder of Paradise Row,...
New Sensations Finalists
Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery have announced the shortlist and finalists for this year’s New Sensations Prize. The work of 20 young artists will be exhibited in an exhibition in London opening on 12 October. Twenty graduates from BA and MA courses at UK and the Republic of Ireland colleges and universities have been chosen by the judges: the artists Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin; Nick Hackworth, founder of Paradise Row,...
Lida Sherafatmand: Early Milestones of an Inner Journey
The subtitle of Lida Sherafatmand’s exhibition at the Roerich Family Museum and Institute, St Petersburg, references an extraordinary citizen of the world, in many ways like Lida herself, in the person of Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих, 9 October, 1874-13 December, 1947), writes SAJID RIZVI. Again, like Lida Sherafatmand, an itinerant artist (in the best sense of that phrase) Roerich demonstrated an...
Kasper König to curate next Manifesta
Berlin-based Kasper König has been selected as Chief Curator of Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, 28 June – 31 October, 2014.. The main venue for Manifesta 10 will be the State Hermitage Museum. The city of St. Petersburg will be a strategic partner of Manifesta 10. Professor Mikhail Borisovich Piotrowsky, General Director of the State Hermitage Museum said, “For the Hermitage contemporary art is a natural, though complex,...