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• The Comics Corner BEIRUT ART FAIR This year, Beirut Art Fair presents for the first time, an exhibition dedicated to the ME.NA.SA. comics showcasing over thirty original drawings. The Comics Corner offers through the “ninth art“ an overview spanning from the Maghreb to Asia, passing by the Middle East, and unveiling how comic creators seize the political, social and economic situations of their native...   [more]

Opening: June 16th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This latest installment of the Forum series features filmic “portraits” by Irish artist Duncan Campbell. Each of the films unravels historical narrative by way of one fascinating protagonist—including eminent German bureaucrat Hans Tietmeyer, a key player in Europe’s economic centralization; iconic Irish Republican civil rights activist and MP Bernadette Devlin; and legendary carmaker John De...   [more]

Opening: April 28th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The CCA Andratx is pleased to present the latest exhibition of young Majorcan artist Bel Fullana (Manacor, 1985). Bachelor in Fine Arts by the University of Barcelona, the art project developed by this artist is one of the most interesting and original in the local art scene. Her drawings and paintings show a series of children portraits which far of representing them in a sweetened way, actually...   [more]

Opening: May 17th, 2012   10:30 AM - 7:00 PM

The opening exhibition of CMCA’s 60th anniversary year honors five artists whose work, throughout their careers, reflects CMCA’s mission of “advancing contemporary art in Maine.” The five honorees demonstrate through their art a willingness to continually challenge assumptions, to experiment, and to push past established boundaries—exemplifying a spirit of innovation and excellence that co...   [more]

Manuel Vilariño’s photographs (A Coruña, 1952) inhabit a place of their own, a world ruled by solitude and silence which pays no lip service to current or generational trends. Awarded the National Prize for Photography in 2007, this Galician artist shows his most recent work in this exhibition curated by Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego. Las fotografías de Manuel Vilariño (A Coruña, 1952), Premio Nacional de...   [more]

Perspectives 178: CINEPLEX transforms CAMH’s Zilkha Gallery into a unique cinémathèque space for a celebration of the expansive nature of moving image media and the power of montage. CINEPLEX explores the landscape of cinematic experience through various artists’ reflections on, responses to, and transformations of movie culture. Unfolding over the course of twelve weeks of projections, sc...   [more]

Opening: April 12th, 2012   6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

A sweeping retrospective of the designer’s 40 years of creativity, Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective features a stunning selection of 200 haute couture garments along with numerous photographs, drawings, and films that illustrate the development of Saint Laurent's style and the historical foundations of his work. Organized thematically, the presentation melds design and art to explore the full ar...   [more]

Opening: March 25th, 2012   12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Opening: May 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

After graduating from the Art Academy in Havana, the members of the Cuban artists group Los Carpinteros work together and divide their time between Cuba and Madrid. The difficult living conditions and the resulting inaccessibility to resources in Cuba led to the artists using recycling articles as basic material for their work. At the beginning it was mainly wood, which the artists knew how to wo...   [more]

Opening: April 27th, 2012   8:30 PM - 10:30 PM

This exhibition of football-inspired work from mima's collection explores artists' representations of the beautiful game and features ceramics, jewellery and photography.   [more]

The Sephardic tradition refers to Jews whose heritage dates back to Spain before the fifteenth century. After being expelled from Spain by rulers Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492, Spanish Jews emigrated to Northern Africa, Italy, the Ottoman Empire (today's Turkey), and back to the Middle East. The term Sephardic is also sometimes used to refer to Mizrachi ("from the East") Jews, those who originated in...   [more]

Opening: May 28th, 2011   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Fairytales, Fantasy, & Fear brings together the work of several internationally acclaimed artists, including Mattia Biagi, Mark Newport, Kako Ueda, Tom Price, and Kate Malone. Known for his work in tar, Italian artist Biagi reinterprets icons of lost innocence, such as Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella’s carriage. Newport, an American fiber artist, creates hand-knit acrylic re-creations of heroes�...   [more]

From April to October, 2012, RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain is presenting outstanding international examples of contemporary photography and video art. RAY consists of a main exhibition distributed between three central locations in Frankfurt am Main and numerous partner exhibitions and projects in Frankfurt and the surrounding region.In 2012 the focus is the theme of TIME, which will be...   [more]

Opening: April 19th, 2012   8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

A Visual Poet Rewrites the World of SignsAny number of artists have depicted the readable world. But Ferdinand Kriwet has described it - with all that that means. He has taken us into the urban world of signs. But above all he has written his own signs in and on the world, in the funniest and most intelligent way. His stickers, posters and neon signs seduce and proclaim, to the flow of his signals...   [more]

Thomas Demand (1964- ) is a German artist well-known for using cardboard to accurately recreate scenes of political or social dramas, based on actual photographs, then exhibiting photographs of the result. The world we see in these photographs could be mistaken for the real thing, although the uniformity of the space causes viewers to recognize the difference between representational and actual sp...   [more]

Opening: April 19th, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM