CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts As the United States slowly recovers from its most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression, the CCA Wattis Institute’s More American Photographs exhibition reexamined the well-known photography program of the Farm Security Administration, which lasted from 1935 to 1944.
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst 13 May–26 August 2012 With prize money of 10,000 euros, the Art Prize is awarded biannually to an artist whose works have continually given new impetus to the international art scene. As part of the prize a solo exhibition will be held in the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst.
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw The Third Room is an "exercise at a distance" between two institutions: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. This parallel exhibition is taking place simultaneously in Düsseldorf and Warsaw, cities separated by almost 1000 kilometers. For several weeks, specially designated spaces serve as a laboratory where research into analogies, differences, and hypothetical relations between the two sites has been compressed.
Americans against capitalism? Arab nations toppling autocrats through peaceful protests? 2011 has been a year of massive popular uprisings—on a completely unexpected scale and from populations that were thought to have been thoroughly subdued. Commentators have predicted that discontent in the Arab world would soon come to a head for so many years that it was beginning to seem unlikely, just as others had begun to dismiss the political potency of popular demonstrations in fiscalized Western democracies.