Contemporary Ibiza is a new art show gathering contemorary, cutting-edge art from around the world. It takes place July 18 to 21, 2013. The show has a number of things going for it--40 elite galleries from around the world and it is held in Ibiza. The Spanish island is synonymous with a good time. The show will be held at the Ibiza Marina nearby all the island's popular attactions--from beaches to casinos.

To find out more head to http://contemporary-show.com.

Mikey Peterson is a visual artist, writer, musician and art-educator based in Chicago. He will also be part of Constantly.Consuming.Culture-The Art Show in Chicago this fall.  Remember to go check out the KICKSTARTER TO FUND THIS SHOW!

Peterson's work has been shown at the StreeTVideoart exhibition in Paris, the Video Art And Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca in NYC, the Lucca Film Festival in Italy, the Performance Intermedia and DokumentART Fest in Poland, at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum and at the Chicago Cultural Center and at many other venues.

To see some of Peterson's work head HERE or HERE.

Or find out more about his videos, music and more at mikeypeterson.com

SITE Santa Fe recently announced the first edition of SITElines, titled Unsettled Landscapes. The biennial exhibition series opens July 13, 2014 and will be open through January, 2015.

SITElines: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas will encopass six years of linked exhibits. Cultural production and contemporary are are the focus of these exhibits which take place every other year beginning in 2014. Different groups and individuals will organize exhibits throughout the Western Hemisphere.

For more information and updates head to sitesantafe.org.

We mostly write about Art Basel Miami Beach (not travelling with great frequency to Switzerland is part of the reason for this). But, Art Basel’s 44th edition in Basel, Switzerland takes place from June 13 through June 16, 2013.  This year’s galleries include 304 presenting work from the Modern period of the 20th century to contemporary artists.

Galleries from 39 countries/territories from five continents will participate.

The show has a new space this year within the extension of Hall 1. The extension was designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron. It is directly on the Messeplatz. The existing part of Hall 1 will be given to Unlimited, the Statemetns and magazine sections.

If you will be anywhere near and are a serious collector—or have a serious interest in art, attendance is pretty close to mandatory.

For more information CLICK HERE.

For the non-Chicago resident it must have been disconcerting walking through Navy Pier (essentially a cheesy tourist trap) to get to the first year of Expo Chicago. But a funny thing happens about 3/4 of the way; you run into the permanent exhibit of stained glass housed at the pier. I dare you to not stop and look. It really sets a mood appropriate to a fine art show.

Add to that an impressive group of galleries and artists and a day’s worth of looking, and hopefully purchasing, art should follow. Expo Chicago featured galleries from around the world, mostly displaying works by established artists. There was less outsider art and street art than was usually on display at Expo Chicago's predecessor in Chicago (the now defunct Art Chicago/Next).

The show included several large installation pieces—works in themselves or “props” for performance pieces—throughout. Some of these are pictured here.

Over the next few days we will post pieces on the galleries from Expo Chicago  as well as more on Expo Chicago itself. Stay tuned.

Expo Chicago, which starts this week, is the new premiere art event in the city. I say that, of course, without having gone but it sure looks good on paper! The show runs from September 20 to the 23 in Festival Hall at Navy Pier.

After Art Chicago went the way of the dodo it seemed high art had abandoned the city of broad shoulders but Expo Chicago stepped in.  In the Fall instead of Spring, the festival is close in its timing to other large Chicago art happenings which  is one of those things that, over time could make Chicago more of an art destination. The100 or so galleries participating in the festival are from all over the world and are galleries we write about with some frequency (Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Tandem Press, Madison, Wisconsin and Paul Thiebaud, San Francisco)

The focus of this festival is modern art and design. If you want more information head to www.expochicago.com. There will be coverage here of the event.

First Floor Gallery, in Harare, Zimbabwe, will be one of two African Galleries accepted into the Berliner Liste emerging art fair. Berliner List takes place from September 13 to 16, 2012. As you might expect the fair takes place in Berlin. One of the artists being shown by First Floor Gallery is Moffat Takadiwa.

For more information on the fair go HERE.

For more information on Takawida and his installations and sculptures go HERE.

The latter link is to the artist’s "selected works" page on the gallery website. Check out some of the other art on the site as well.

The Lunch Box Gallery’s Summer Photo Show 2012 begins next week in Miami. The show opens Saturday, August 11 at 310 NW. 24th St. Miami from 5 to 10 p.m.  Photographers from around the USA and the world will be represented. Likewise photographers of all styles and methods will be represented. Fourteen artists were chosen after a call for entries.

One of our favorite photographers, Luisa Mesa (based in Miami), will have work included. Also included are; John William Keedy (New York), Sarah Tortora (Connecticut), Noah David Bau (Boston/Bangkok), Miranda Maynard (North Carolina), Amy Leibrand (Ohio), Lissette Schaeffler (Miami), Aimee Hertog (New Jersey), Troy Colby (Kansas), Dafna Steinberg (Washington DC), Ted Oonk (The Netherlands), Ramesh Pithiya (Washington DC), Naimar Ramirez (Puerto Rico) and Tracy Thomas (California).

For more information head to www.lunchboxgallery.com.