C.A.N. Condensed

May 1st, 2010
  • The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park will celebrate the work of Dale Chihuly Dale Chihulywith an outdoor sculptural exhibition.  Chihuly and his team worked in collaboration with the Meijer Gardens Horticultural team to celebrate the duality of art and nature.  The show runs through September 30, 2010.  Read more on ArtKnowledgeNews.com.
  • The Vienna Secession presents three solo exhibitions of Jiří Kovanda, Francis Upritchard and Anna Artaker.  The show includes 3D and installation works from all three.  The exhibit runs through June 20, 2010.  For more read the article on E-Flux.com
  • Germain Greer publicly defends Australian painter Sam Leach who won the Wynne Prize earlier this month.  Leach openly admits that the landscape was copied from an image he found on the internet, which caused an uproar of sorts in the art community.  Read more on HyperAllergic.com
  • Guardian.co.uk offers a little insight into Cubism, the art movement pursued by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others. 
  • Exhibition #3Exhibition #3takes place May 11-29, 2010 at the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York.  Boško Blagojević's write up says "the best captions can be moved from one picture to another.  Their traction is timeless."  Blagojević continues on the topic of various conversations of today.  Read more on E-Flux.com.