festival of Contemporary art - Italy
21-23 May - The city of Faenza welcomes OPERE/works, the third edition of the festival of Contemporary art. Under the scientific direction of Angela Vettese, Carlos Basualdo and Pier Luigi Sacco, the festival has become an important event in the international contemporary art calendar, thanks to its unique characteristics. After the success of the first two editions, which brought more than 25,000 visitors and 250 speakers from all around the world to Faenza, at OPERE/works, from 21st to 23rd May 2010, we will look at artworks as we have never seen them before. Artists, critics, curators, philosophers, opinion leaders and key figures of the international art and culture system will meet the public in Faenza to develop the theme from different points of view. Different formats will investigate the life, the meaning, the exhibition matters related to the works. Among these formats there will be also debates on contamination between art and different forms of culture, such as design, fashion system and food. Moreover a programme of more than sixty fringe events, a special event and the Cnight party, will keep the city on during the week of the festival.



The Invisible Dog - USA
22 May, New York - IF YOU SEE NOTHING SAY SOMETHING..
The Invisible Dog Art Center presents the first curatorial program PLUS ONE curated by artist Kiya Kim (Korean, b. 1977), which features artists Adam Smith Parker, Young Paik, Chong Gon Byun, Carolyn Salas, Eun Jung Hwang, Woolga Choi, Hong Seon Jang, Hee Jung Cho, Jason Peters, Julie Evanoff, Kiya Kim, Megan Prince, Noah Klersfeld, Richard Jochum, Sea Chang Chun & Thomas McKean. The exhibition is generously supported by Namkwang Construction.



LaRete Art Projects - Italy
Maria José Arjona – VIRES - EXERCISES ON POWER
A series of performances curated by Julia Draganovic and Claudia Löffelholz, launched by LaRete Art Projects.
June 22, 4–9 pm: Piazza Maggiore and historical city center of Bologna, Italy
June 23, 5–8 pm: Teatro Anatomico of Archiginnasio, Piazza Galvani 1, Bologna, Italy
June 24, 5–8 pm: Teatro Anatomico of Archiginnasio, Piazza Galvani 1, Bologna, Italy
LaRete Art Projects is proud to present Colombian performance artist Maria José Arjona for the first time in Italy. Arjona gained the reputation of being one of the most outstanding emerging performance artists of Latin America due to her recent showings at the Watermill Center on Long Island (NY), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and as the only visual artist participating in the re-enactments of Marina Abramovic’s historical pieces in her current retrospective at the MoMA New York. After her Italian debut at the Museum MADRE in Naples, June 12-15 2010, where Arjona will take part in the performance series “Corpus. Arte in Azione”, the Colombian artist will present three site specific interventions in the city of Bologna. VIRES is the title of a series of exercises concerning power. Maria José Arjona researches individual, social and political power restrictions and invites her audience to rediscover its own possibilities of choice and physical interaction.



the-artists - Portugal
Listings for major modern & contemporary visual artists (up to 10.000) working in sculpture, painting, installation, print, performance, photography, collage, and multimedia and digital artists. Searches by technique, art style and art movement. Famous, established and emerging artists since 1900 are presented with their portrait, biography and/or portfolio.
New this month: The Greater New York 2010 artists: Quintennial exhibition organized by MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, showcasing some 68 artists and collectives living and working in the metropolitan New York area, will open at MoMA PS1 on May 23 and run through October 18, 2010. On 'the-artists.org' website you will find all participating artists with biography and resources to find out anything you want to know about them and their artworks.



MUV Festival - Italy
3 June, Florence. International music and digital arts festival. Presents in the ‘Videozone’ 14 works by video artists active in Celeste: Patrick Bergeron, Guillaume Blanchet, Francesca Coppola, Isobel Blank, Claudia Gambadoro, Nicola Genovese, Silvio Giordano, Seunghee Kang, Peter Monkman, Otolab, Surabhi Saraf, Yea Jin Song, Alexey Terehoff (Aliaksei Tserakhau), David Theobald. Other videos in the ‘Videozone’ between 1-5 June: selected by Transmediale (Germany), LPM (Live Performers Meeting), Romaeuropa Webfactory and Off-circuit of Venice International Short Film Festival.



Tribe Art - Italy
The first independent and free monthly magazine about exhibitions, artists, design, music, recycling and comics in Sicily. It is a platform for discussion and research on the latest artistic production through in depth contributions and interviews with the key actors of the sicilian art scene.