March 24 - 30, 2011

1. Lille Grand Palais, Lille, France, www.lilleartfair.com

March 24 – 27, 2011

Lille Art Fair

Avec plus de 13 000 visiteurs lors de sa 3ème édition en 2010, Lille Art Fair confirmait l'attractivité de ce rendez-vous artistique et marchand dans la région. Lille Art Fair joue cette année encore la carte de la diversité : Conférences, animations, expositions de prestige, installations, rencontres avec les artistes et performances lors de la Nuit de l'Art le jeudi 24 mars... Autant d'opportunités pour découvrir, comprendre, appréhender et aimer l'Art Contemporain!

March 25 - May 7, 2011

Ioana Nemes: Times Colliding

Art in General is pleased to present Times Colliding, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Romanian artist Ioana Nemes. Having just completed a five-year project of self-evaluation and recording, Monthly Evaluations (2005-10), Nemes continues to use conceptual strategies to explore the nature of chronology. Times Colliding debuts a new sculpture created especially for Art in General; this is the first time that Nemes’ investigation of time has taken an architectural position in the gallery.

Emily Roysdon: Positions

Throughout her practice, Emily Roysdon’s multidisciplinary approach to art making has incorporated photography, printmaking, performance, and an extensive history of collaboration. For her first solo exhibition in New York, Positions brings together a body of work that culminates around a dialectic consideration of language, choreography, and political representation.

Marie Jager: l'heure bleue

Marie Jager’s L’heure bleue is the first project to debut in Art in General’s newly launched elevator program Musée Miniscule. The work takes its title from the French expression ‘l’heure bleue’, which refers to a moment in the early morning when all birds, diurnal and nocturnal, are asleep, and nature is completely silent.

STUDIO SM - Sara Kaaman, Martin Falck

March 17 - April 12, 2011

TEMPS D'IMAGES in Brussels

Les Halles continues its investigation into the artistic practices of the Middle East and dedicates a TEMPS D'IMAGES festival to Beirut for the second time.

Performances, films, literary meetings, conferences, exhibitions and workshops will offer several ways to explore the city.

SHOWS - PERFORMANCES

* Le temps scellé, the new creation by the French choreographer Nacéra Belaza (24, 26 March);

CHANTIERS

* Wagons Libres, a performance by the young Belgium artist Sandra Iché, who uses interviews conducted in the late 90's for the magazine L'Orient-Express and projects them into 2030 to sketch out a fictional Beirut of the future (24 March);

EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS

* Ceci n'est plus Beyrouth, photos taken during the civil war by the Franco-Lebanese photographer Fouad Elkoury (28 January-26 March)

* La Palestine au Liban: les camps de réfugiés palestiniens, an exhibition proposed by the Lebanese architect Ismaêl Sheikh Hassan about the refugee camp of Nahr el Bared, in the North of Lebanon, which was completely destroyed in 2007;

* Video installations by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (Khiam), Akram Zaatari (Video in 5 Movements), Jocelyne Saab (Les enfants de la guerre);

CINEMA

A selection of films where "the city that refuses to disappear" has the main role by Mohammed Soueid (autobiographic documentary trilogy Civil War, Tango of Yearning, Nightfall), Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (Je veux voir), Borhane Alaouié (Beyrouth, la rencontre), Fouad Elkoury (Welcome to Beirut), Maroun Bagdadi (Les petites guerres), Randa Chahal Sabbagh (Nos guerres imprudentes), Jocelyne Saab (Il était une fois Beyrouth, Qu'est-ce qui se passe ?), Danielle Arbid (Dans les champs de bataille), Michel Kammoun (Falafel), Maher Abi Samra (Rond-Point Chattila, Juste une odeur)

WORKSHOP

* Samandal & L'Employé du Moi: five Lebanese and five Belgian comic book authors meet up in the same workshop, telling their own stories and how they relate to History (22-26 March);

LITERARY MEETINGS

An evening dedicated to literature with a major figure of contemporary Middle-Eastern culture:

* Etel Adnan, the great Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist (25 March).

March 25, 2011, 7 p.m.

Not only in German please! Ideas for multilingualism

Lectures by and discussion with Günther Rautz, Rubia Salgado, Verena Wisthaler

Introduction and moderation: Farida Heuck

Romanian Cultural Institute, New York, USA, www.icrny.org

March 24, 2011, 7:30 pm

"The traditional Maramures rugs of Victoria Berbecaru and Mircea Cantor's flying carpet" - A preview and conversation with the artists

Location: RCINY – Auditorium

March 28 - April 15, 2011

"The traditional Maramures rugs of Victoria Berbecaru and Mircea Cantor's flying carpet"

Location: La Maison Francaise, Washington D.C.

In the Romanian region of Maramures traditional handcrafts are still very much alive today; you can find authentic woodcarving, pottery and wool crafting. This exhibition presents some of the most enchanting rugs made by Victoria Berbecaru over four decades, some of them still being used at the local church. Along with them, one can see a flying carpet (Airplanes and Angels), which is the work of Mircea Cantor. The composition is inspired by traditional rugs from the region, but also introducing more recent flying figures.

March 17 – 31, 2011

Vilnius International Film Festival, the 16^th edition

Vilnius International Film Festival (Vilnius IFF) "Kino pavasaris" is the biggest and most important cinema event in Lithuania. Festival was established in 1995 and now that fifteen years have passed it earned its reputation because it is showing high quality newest films that are carefully picked out of highly rated festivals and has been awarded the prizes by both the audience and film critics. Serious discussions, widely respected Lithuanian and international filmmakers, events for industry guests, social and educational projects is essential part of the festival, as well as cheerful parties.

March 24 – April 3, 2011

Cleveland International Film Festival

For the past 34 years, the CIFF has been the premier film event in Ohio. Today the CIFF presents a full survey of contemporary international and American Independent filmmaking, with more than 150 features and 130 short subjects from approximately 60 countries. Dozens of filmmakers and other special guests attend the CIFF where they introduce their screenings, discuss their work, and participate in FilmForums (which are panel discussions that give audience members a chance to talk about the films they've seen at the Festival).

Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany, www.museum-frieder-burda.de

March 18 – May 15, 2011

Lebenslinien – Stationen einer Sammlung (Lifelines – Stations of a Collection)

On the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, Frieder Burda is preparing a personal selection of exhibits from his collection, which meanwhile comprises some one thousand works of art. The works being presented stand for specific focuses and important phases in the assembly of what is now a internationally renowned private collection of sculptures, objects, and, in particular, paintings. Starting with the brightly colored paintings of German Expressionism, which left a marked impression on Frieder Burda in his childhood home, over the course of the years he has assembled a distinguished collection of art from the 20th and 21st centuries. It primarily focuses on American Abstract Expressionism, Pablo Picasso’s late work, and finally German painting with important groups of works by Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, as well as Arnulf Rainer. Since the 1990s, these have been supplemented by art by young contemporary artists, some of whom are just beginning their careers, but also by acclaimed painters, such as Neo Rauch, or photographers, such as Axel Hütte and Gregory Crewdson.

March 19, 2011 - April 8, 2012

Early Modernism: 1900-1920 from the Moderna Museet Collection

In this exhibition, we highlight works from Moderna Museet’s rich collection of early 20th century art, including artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Siri Derkert, Sonia Delaunay, Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and many others. Thanks to this presentation, visitors to Moderna Museet Malmö can learn more about the early phase of modernism.

March 19 - September 11, 2011

Marcel Duchamp

Today, Marcel Duchamp is regarded as one of the most prominent and innovative artists of the 20th century, and his famous work Fountain was selected as the most influential work of the 1900s. Starting this spring and ending in the autumn, Moderna Museet Malmö gives you the opportunity to see more of this fascinating oeuvre that was perpetually breaking new ground

February 25 – March 26, 2011

A Vaulx Jazz

Jazz festival

March 19 – May 15, 2011

Radikal. Peter Skubic. Schmuck

The Austrian Peter Skubic (*1935) is still considered the ‘agent provocateur’ among jewelry artists today. His first works in gold were created around 1969. Within a short time he was considered one of the most highly-regarded and influential innovators in this field internationally.

His dictum: Jewelry is an intellectual discipline.

The central principles of his design are austerity, clarity of proportion, precision, radical minimalism and uncompromising rebelliousness. Tension brooches, balancing objects – these are characteristic namings of just two groups of works.

The artist/engineer Peter Skubic sees making jewelry as an adventure, a body happening, a creative liberating act going beyond established borders.

March 19 – April 17, 2011

Treasure Hunt. Class of Eva Eisler, Prague

The exhibition "Treasure Hunt" presents a selection of students' work from 2008- 2011, ranging from unconventional jewelry, table-top objects, wooden containers and sculptural structures balancing on the verge of being functional, between art and design, perfection and imperfection, drawing the viewer into the intimate space / architecture of our mind. Students of Studio K.O.V. (Koncept Objekt Význam – Concept Object Meaning) at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague work under the leadership of Professor Eva Eisler, an artist, designer, architect and jeweler.

Searching as a journey towards a hidden treasure is synonymous with artistic creativity. Both are endless processes in which new questions, and not necessarily answers, are found. The journey is the destination; the treasure itself remains shrouded.

March 20 - June 26, 2011

Gli appartamenti barocchi e la pittura del Legnanino

March 14 – 25, 2011

Connect Festival

The Connect Festival is an annual two week event involving approximately 2,000 local people, dancers and dance professionals through performing, participating, watching and learning about dance in the Lilian Baylis Studio. The festival includes collaborations and commissions from associate and visiting companies and features performances, seminars and workshops.

March 17 – 26, 2011

Pet Shop Boys & Javier De Frutos

The Most Incredible Thing

Pet Shop Boys & Javier De Frutos

The Most Incredible Thing

March 16 - July 31, 2011

Miro Sculptor

The Maillol Museum is paying homage to Joan Miró’s sculpted work. Although the artist is internationally acknowledged, his sculptures have not been exhibited in Paris in nearly 40 years.

To mark the occasion the museum has gathered up 101 sculptures, 22 ceramics, 19 works on paper and one painting. The works on display mostly come from the outstanding collection of the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght.

March 22 and 25, 2011

Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera

March 17 – April 7, 2011

Dimiter Hristoff - Remembering Istanbul

January 29 - June 5, 2011

Gervasio Sánchez “Desaparecidos”

Photo

February 18 - May 29, 2011

Picasso in Paris, 1900-1907

January 22 – April 24, 2011

Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?

March 20 – April 5, 2011

35^th Hong Kong International Film Festival

Various locations, Hong Kong, China, www.hkiff.org.hk

March 20 – April 5, 2011

35^th Hong Kong International Film Festival