The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. (more…)

The exhibition Working with Waste by the British artist Lucy Beech grew out of their research-based practice and ongoing exchange with poets, scientists, technologists, historians, and other filmmakers. (more…)

Mattress Factory is proud to present Assume the Risk, a new work by Delhi, India-based artist Asim Waqif. Museums are typically places of pristinely preserved objects. Secured behind glass and roped off from curious hands, the importance and value of a work is protected in climate-controlled rooms (more…)

Punta della Dogana presents the thematic exhibition Icônes which proposes a reflection on the theme of the icon and the status of the image in the contemporary world through a selection of more than 80 works (more…)

Sean Scully is one of the most important painters of his generation. While known primarily for his large-scale abstract paintings, Scully also works in a variety of diverse media, including printmaking, sculpture, watercolor and pastel.

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Attention all emerging international practitioners in architecture, design, engineering, and the arts! The second Open Call for Bauhaus Earth fellowships is now open, offering the opportunity to contribute to the development of a powerful aesthetic for a sustainable architecture of the future. (more…)

HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narrative aims to explore the new atmosphere of trans-disciplinary experimentation across divergent fields and sectors in the arts. (more…)

Within a Budding Grove takes its title from the second volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, which follows the protagonist’s adolescence and his increasing sense of self-awareness. As a teenager, Jyll Bradley spent a lot of time sitting in her family’s greenhouse in rural Kent observing the play between sunlight and glass, a visual language that has remained integral to her work since the 1980s. (more…)

Nancy B Negley Artists Residency Program based at The Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, offers residencies of one to two months to mid-career arts and humanities professionals to focus on their areas of expertise. (more…)

Lu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. (more…)

To mark her 80th birthday, the ZKM Karlsruhe is presenting a major exhibition on the work of media artist Ulrike Rosenbach. Ulrike Rosenbach was one of the first artists in Germany to use the medium of video – as early as the beginning of the 1970s. (more…)

On this day, May 5, Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire (1260); After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prison (1981); Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain (1494) (more…)