Since April Ai Weiwei, former teacher at Salzburg International Summeracademy of Fine Arts, has been detained. We are very concerned about his whereabouts. Please sign this petition started by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Here you find most recent information and an overview of international coverage. http://www.change.org/petitions/call-for-the-release-of-ai-weiwei You find can also find a news update here: http://freeaiweiwei.org/ Article by Ruth Noack and Roger Buergel in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in German: http://www.faz.net/s/RubEBED639C476B407798B1CE808F1F6632/Doc~EC931AA4EF2F5443CA76697E0C32B35B5~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

Are you interested in participating in the course of Peter Friedl "Pictures as concepts / 18.07.2011-06.08.2011" or Christian Philipp Müller "Acts with objects in urban space, performance and sculpture / 08.08.2011-27.08.2011", apply for grants until Friday ...

The Berlin cultural scientist and curator Baerbel Hartje, until recently responsible for the press department of the Temporaere Kunsthalle Berlin, has joined the team of the summer academy on April 4 2011.

will give lectures in the symposium global art (29, 30 July 2011). Bassam El Baroun, writer, curator, Alexandria, Egypt; co-founder of the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, ACAF http://www.artabase.net/gallery/34-acaf-alexandria-contemporary-arts-forum, curator of Manifesta 8 in Murcia and Cartagena, Spain. Monica Juneja, art historian, lecturer in Global Art History at the University of Heidelberg; published works include: Text und Bild in den Berichten über aussereuropäische Welten, theme issue, Zeitenblicke (ed. with Barbara Potthast), 2008.

have agreed to participate in the global art symposium (July 29, 30 Salzburg). Nancy Adajania, culture theorist, curator and film-maker, New Delhi Hans Belting, art historian, professor emeritus at the State University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe; published works include: Florenz und Bagdad. Eine westöstliche Geschichte des Blicks, Munich: C. H. Beck, Munich, 2008 an he is coeditor (together with Andrea Buddensieg) of The Global Art World. Audiences, Markets and Museums, Hatje Cantz Osterfildern 2009. He initiated togehter with Peter Weibel the GAM – Global Art and the Museum at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe http://globalartmuseum.de/site/home in 2006.