Joana Vasconcelos, "Trafaria Praia"  (detail), 2013. Installation within the Trafaria Praia ferryboat. Photograph: Luís Vasconcelos. © Unidade Infinita Projectos.

Joana Vasconcelos, Trafaria Praia (detail), 2013. Installation within the Trafaria Praia ferryboat. Photograph: Luís Vasconcelos. © Unidade Infinita Projectos.

Portuguese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Joana Vasconcelos

For Portugal's participation in the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, the artist Joana Vasconcelos (born in 1971) is presenting Trafaria Praia, a project in which a cacilheiro, or Lisbon ferryboat, is transformed into a... continue reading

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Art Basel Hong KongBy Venus Lau

It was a debut, a big one. But the private preview opening of Art Basel Hong Kong was threatened with a black rainstorm warning, which yielded nothing other than the solid banality of Hong Kong humidity. Inside, relief: the Art Basel HK fair feels like a nineteenth-century crystal palace, spacious,... continue reading

Gabriel Lester’s “The Secret Life of Cities”By Judith Vrancken

The lust to be a “totalizing eye” immediately sprung to mind when walking into Gabriel Lester’s “The Secret Life of Cities.” It’s one of the key notions expressed in Michel de Certeau’s chapter “Walking in the City” that “the fiction of knowledge is related to [the] lust to be a... continue reading

“U.F.O.-NAUT JK (Július Koller) orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija”By Simon Rees

Anyone who grew up in the 1970s and watched the Children’s Television Network/PBS educational series Sesame Street was subliminally prepared for the gamut of conceptualism in (contemporary) art. No character prepared one better than the “Mad Painter,” who popped up in the unlikeliest of places in his Chaplinesque bowler hat... continue reading

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Call for applications: RESIDENCY FOR ARTISTS ON HIATUSRESIDENCY FOR ARTISTS ON HIATUS (RFAOH)

Shinobu Akimoto and Matthew Evans are pleased to announce the launch of their new project, RESIDENCY FOR ARTISTS ON HIATUS (RFAOH).  RESIDENCY FOR ARTISTS ON HIATUS is a virtual yet functioning residency available to artists who, for one reason or another, are not currently making or presenting art. The residency will exist in the form of a... continue reading

Dublin Institute of Technology announces call for applicationsDublin Institute of Technology (DIT)

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
: call for applicationsLucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Suzana Milevska appointed for first Endowed Professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts ViennaAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna

e-flux journal issue 45: Language and Internet out nowe-flux journal

Massachusetts College of Art and Design 2013 MFA Thesis ExhibitionsMassachusetts College of Art and Design

Solorem announces a call for applications for ARTEM – Nancy, FranceSolorem

The Angel of History exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-ArtsEcole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts

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