Ming Wong, Wayang Spaceship, 2022. Site-specific public art commission, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore. Courtesy of Singapore Art Museum.

Singapore Art Museum launches major art commission as part of its public art initiative The Everyday Museum

July 15, 2022–January 31, 2023 The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is excited to reveal the new, site-specific piece that Singaporean artist Ming Wong has been commissioned to create. The piece, dubbed Wayang Spaceship, will be on exhibit starting on July 15, 2022, at SAM's freshly opened post-industrial space in Tanjong Pagar Distripark. The project heralds the…

July 19, 2022

Illustrations: Mohammed Zaahidur Rahman, 2022.

Visual Arts News

Brent Biennial 2022: In the House of my Love 

July 8–September 11, 2022 The complete roster of artists taking part in the 2022 edition of the Brent Biennial, which runs from July 8 to September 11, is now available. Curator Eliel Jones and the 2022 curatorial committee Adam Farah, Jamila Prowse, and Abbas Zahedi bring together artists and community groups whose work explores the many meanings…

July 11, 2022

Ibrahim Mahama. Courtesy of the artist an White Cube.

Visual Arts Events Galleries

Ibrahim Mahama: The Memory of Love at Frac des Pays de la Loire

July 2–October 2, 2022 Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian artist born in Tamale in 1987, has spent the last 10 years producing a thorough body of work that is socially involved and interacts with the different museums, art galleries, landmarks, and other public spaces that have hosted him. The artist deconstructs historical contexts marred by the idea…

July 4, 2022

Christian Boltanski, Les Regards. © Agence Eva Albarran, Charlotte Richard, Paris.

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Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale presents its 8th edition

April 29–November 13, 2022 After being postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 8th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (ETAT) is now taking place through November 13. Instead of the 50-day summer session that was customary for past versions, it lasts for seven months. ETAT was founded in 2000 with the intention of using art as…

July 4, 2022

Bani Abidi, The Reassuring Hand Gestures of Big Men, Small Men, All Men (detail), 2021.

Museums

Statecraft at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

June 16–October 30, 2022 Statecraft is an international group exhibition that looks at the fundamental principles that go into the creation of the modern nation state, as well as the issues it faces in our globalized, networked world. Statecraft investigates the history and processes of modern nation-building, focusing on the power structures and processes that underpin state…

June 19, 2022

Architecture & Design Events

The Norman Foster Foundation presents Shelters Workshop

June 6–10, 2022 Public debates: June 8, 7–8pm, with Shigeru Ban, Norman Foster, Johan Karlsson and Elena Giral The first edition of the Norman Foster Foundation’s Shelters Workshop will take place from June 6–10, 2022 with the support of Holcim. “Eighty million people were displaced in 2021 due to conflict and natural disasters and, in just over two…

June 1, 2022