Ilha do Presídio, Guaíba, Brasil. Courtesy of Bienal do Mercosul.

Ilha do Presídio, Guaíba, Brasil. Courtesy of Bienal do Mercosul.

Mercosul Biennial Foundation

Artists in 9th Bienal

The promises of the 9th Bienal do Mercosul l Porto Alegre are to identify, propose and repurpose changing belief systems and appraisals of experimentation and innovation. It intends to raise ontological and technological questions through artistic... continue reading

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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

Henri Chopin’s “La Crevette Amoureuse”By Vincenzo Latronico

The traditional form of the novel, as we know it since the nineteenth century, seems oddly impervious to change. In comparison to the extraordinary evolutions undergone by art, very little has changed between today’s mainstream fiction and its Balzac, Austen, and James equivalents. Most of the novel’s purported evolutions have... continue reading

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

In April, Mark Epstein from the Cooper Union board of trustees announced the end of fully subsidized education across the college's art, engineering, and architecture schools. It was a closing chapter in a ferocious battle in the college since it announced its insolvency in 2011. But it may be the beginning of something else.The details are too... continue reading

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

RUPERT Program: call for applications for educational and residency programs in VilniusRUPERT

Syracuse University presents The eNth Degree: MFA 2013Syracuse University

Book release: Gardar Eide Einarsson, Versuchsstation des WeltuntergangsBergen Kunsthall

PNCA’s New Hallie Ford School for Graduate Studies hosts thesis exhibitionsPacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)

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