Expansion of both building and collections places Gallery in ranks of nation’s leading public museums The Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven, Connecticut, has completed major work on its renovation and expansion and commenced installation of the museum’s esteemed collections. The revitalized Gallery will open to the public on December 12, 2012. The expansion project, which has been accompanied by parallel growth in the museum’s holdings, will transform the visitor experience, ... Read More
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The National Gallery of Canada presents Van Gogh: Up Close exhibition, an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art on view from May 25 to September 3, 2012. Visitors will be able to enjoy 47 paintings from public and private collections around the world that explore the Dutch artist’s fascination with and his representation of nature during his French period (1886-1890). Vincent van Gogh, Iris, 1889. Oil on thinned cardboard, mounted on ... Read More
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents the ninth project in its PLATFORM series: Jedediah Caesar, on view May 26–August 12, 2012. PLATFORM 9: Jedediah Caesar presents new work centered on the artist’s interest in the temporal nature of landscape— specifically as it pertains to deCordova’s Sculpture Park. As part of the ongoing PLATFORM series, in which artists are invited to envision work which responds to deCordova’s unique indoor and outdoor space, Caesar will create an ... Read More
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum opens second nature: abstract photography then and now, an exhibition on view on view May 26, 2012–April 21, 2013.Yamini Nayar, By a Thread, 2009 C-print, 30 x 40 inches Courtesy the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery, New York Abstract photography continues to be a catchall genre for the blending of media and disciplines, and a fertile arena in which artists can test photography itself. It challenges the popular view of photography as an objective ... Read More
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a major installation by the German artist Thomas Kilpper, on view 25 May – 5 August 2012, entitled Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech. The work was originally created for the Danish Pavilion in the 2011 Venice Biennale, where it took the form of a raised wooden platform attached to the pavilion. Into the wooden floor of this structure the artist carved 33 portraits including images of leading figures – in politics, business, church and media – from ... Read More
The National Museum of Denmark presents Shaped by Time a contemporary art exhibition where twenty-eight artists and authors have been invited to research and respond to the National Museum of Denmark’s prehistoric collection, presenting history from the end of the Ice Age to the Viking Age. In dialogue with the curators and museum historians, each artist has made a new site-sensitive work in the permanent prehistoric exhibition. On view 1 June–30 September 2012. Shaped by Time, Concept: ... Read More
The Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal presents Zoo. Twenty artists delve into the relationship between humans and animals, an exhibition on view May 24–September 3, 2012. David Altmejd, Le spectre et la main, 2012. Plexiglas, coconut shells, epoxy clay, epoxy resin, thread, resin, metal wire, horse hair, acrylic, 124 1/4 x 269 x 98 inches. Private collection, Montréal. Photo: Guy L’Heureux Some fifty works that are bound to spark a highly topical discussion of the human-animal ... Read More
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Phantom Limb. Approaches to Painting Today, an exhibition on view through Oct 21, 2012.Albert Oehlen Pro Brown, 2006 Acrylic and oil on canvas 70 7/8 x 59 in. (180 x 149.8 cm) Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil, 2010.17 © 2006 Albert Oehlen Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago Despite the periodic ringing of the death knell for painting, this genre of art making is alive and well. An important ... Read More
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents Christina Mackie the first exhibition in Scandinavia by the Canadian artist Christina Mackie, on view 25 May – 5 August 2012. The exhibition, entitled Painting the Weights, consists of an extraordinary installation that features such diverse elements as watercolours, photographs and ceramics, as well as found materials that range from mineral specimens to plastic beer crates. The exhibition follows Mackie’s ongoing fascination with both human technologies ... Read More
Asheville Art Museum announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration of the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,500 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2012. Leadership support has been provided by MetLife Foundation through Blue Star Families. The complete list of participating museums is available at ... Read More
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Creation Story. Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial, on view May 25–September 3, 2012.The Frist Center, Photo by Petyon HogeThis exhibition explores parallels and intersections in the works of the world-famous Gee’s Bend quilters and the self-taught master of assemblage art, Thornton Dial. Quilts made by the women of Gee’s Bend, a small rural community southwest of Selma, Ala., feature a sophisticated orchestration of color ... Read More
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce the appointment of Agnes Wilkie in the role of Deputy Director. She will take up the position on Monday 11 June and will play a leading role in the direction of BALTIC’s strategic development through external relations, commercial and trading activities, development and communications in order to support the organisation’s vision and objectives. Speaking today about the appointment Godfrey Worsdale Director of BALTIC said: “I ... Read More
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