Fifth Annual Digital Graffiti Festival Calls for Artist Submissions
Artists from around the globe to compete for $10,000 in prizes

ALYS BEACH, Fla., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Alys Beach, in conjunction with Visit South Walton, invites artists from around the globe to submit original digital artwork for the Fifth Annual Digital Graffiti Festival at Alys Beach, a one of a kind juried venue for projected art. Artists will compete for $10,000 in prize money, awarded in five categories. All work selected for the 2012 festival will be eligible for the awards, …

Ghada Amer, Valérie Blass and Wangechi Mutu exhibitions at the MAC

MONTREAL, Feb. 1, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – From February 2 to April 22, 2012, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is presenting three solo exhibitions by women artists of the same generation: Ghada Amer, Valérie Blass and Wangechi Mutu. All three share an interest in the body, sexualized and hybrid depictions of human and animal figures, materiality and references to art history and pop culture. The particular layouts of these exhibitions invite visitors to discover the unique approach of each …

BNY Mellon to Bring Largest Touring Exhibition of Andy Warhol’s Pop Art to Asia
‘Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal’ exhibition will tour Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo throughout 2012/14
“In the future everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes” – Andy Warhol

HONG KONG, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – BNY Mellon is bringing the largest touring collection of Andy Warhol’s work to Asia in 2012/14 to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of the acclaimed American painter, printmaker and filmmaker.
Andrew Warhola (6 August 1928 – 22 February 1987), known as Andy …

Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Parallel Worlds
Moderna Museet
11 February – 6 May, 2012
Eija-Liisa Ahtila is one of the most internationally recognised Nordic contemporary artists. Since her breakthrough in the 1990s, she has been a trailblazer in the development of cinematic installations. Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s works operate in the borderlands – questioning and exploring the conventions of the cinematic idiom and challenging habitual perspectives. Her position in the world of film became clear to a wider audience when she was on the jury for feature films at the Venice Film Festival in 2011.

Joan Hernandez Pijuan – Retrospective
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
January 30 – March 11, 2011
Joan Hernandez Pijuan (1931-2005) is one of the most celebrated Spanish painters of the last decades. He produces compositions through uniform planes of neutral color in a simple yet expressive style. Pijuan has received many honors and prizes and is reckoned among the most significant European artists of the 20th & 21st centuries.

John McNamara: A Survey of Paintings
Gallery Bergelli
February 10 – March 7
John McNamara makes surrealist photo-collages and then slowly covers with them with a layer of oil paint, mixing not only figuration and abstraction, but also raising questions about representation in the way that many photographers of constructed realities are also doing, writes DeWitt Cheng in catalog essay accompanying the exhibition.

John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
February 5, 2012 – May 13, 2012
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presents John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation in its La Jolla location from February 5, 2012 to May 13, 2012.