Art World News

The CAPE AFRICA PLATFORM (CAPE) is a groundbreaking cultural project located in Cape Town, South Africa. CAPE aims to culturally connect Cape Town, South Africa, Africa and the Diaspora by creating a contemporary African art event - rooted in the local but global in impact. CAPE is seeking multiple proposals from artists for CAPE 09, its second biennale exhibition of contemporary African Culture, to take place from 2 May till 19 June 2009.

Raid Projects Los Angeles is offering one of our two bedrooms and a studio for artists to come to Los Angeles, make new work, network with commercial galleries and curators, and explore Los Angeles at a rate of $1000 US per month (The AIR program will rise in cost for 2009 to $1200 US). The following dates are still available for the 2008 and 2009 Program: December 2008 - January 2009- February 2009,
January 2009 - February 2009 - March 2009,
March 2009 - April 2009 - May 2009.

New Orleans visionary artist and ordained Vodou priestess, Sallie Ann Glassman, joins one of Philadelphia's most prolific and respected “Spiritual” artists, Gerard (Jerry) DiFalco, at The Enclaves Gallery from September 28 - November 2, 2008 in a show entitled, L’Image Mystique/Les Vues Sacrées (Sacred Image/Sacred Views).  The gallery is located at 2900 Sheaff Lane in South Philadelphia, near the intersection of Penrose and Pattison Avenues.

The Contemporary Arts Center presents a solo exhibition of vibrantly colorful, dramatically intense oil paintings by Austrian artist Maria Lassnig. Initiated and organized by the Serpentine Gallery in London and curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist in association with Rebecca Morrill, the exhibition features work made during the most recent ten years of Lassnig’s career, as well as seven films made between 1971 and 1992. Maria Lassnig opens to the public September 27, 2008.

Local Modern Realist painter Tony M. Baker will be displaying and selling his acrylic on canvas work "City Place West Palm" which has been selected for the upcoming exhibition Ar(t)chitectural Attitude at the Palm Beach International Airport. The exhibit is presented by Palm Beach County Art in Public Places. The exhibition will run from Sept 24, 2008 to Feb 4, 2009. It will be located in the Main Terminal Level 2. Tony is a member of the Wellington Art Society and The Art Alliance of Jupiter and has been a Portfolio Member at absolutearts.com since 2007. 

Down Town Production is a fiercely dynamic group show bringing cutting-edge, urban Chinese art to the UK. Curated by one of China’s leading artists, Yan Lei, the exhibition brings together eight rising stars of contemporary Chinese art whose work reflects the recent dramatic social and economic transformation of China.  It is anticipated that 70% of China’s 1.3 billion population will live in urban areas by 2035. At the end of 2002, records showed that China’s urban population totalled 502 million, living in over 21,000 towns and cities.