Article Archive for February 2010
Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography (1990-2005) at The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
Curated and organized by MOLAA, Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography (1990-2005) is the first survey exhibition to be presented in the Los Angeles area of Latin American photography and photo-based art generated between 1990 and 2005. Organized around four themes of investigation—Subliminal Structures, Embodied Identities, Staged Irony and The Individual & Social Violence—the exhibition explores the artist’s personally-charged response to local and global issues grounded in the contemporary ... Read More
LACMA Hosts First Exhibition Devoted to Renoir’s Late Work
Los Angeles – The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Renoir in the 20th Century, an exhibition focusing on the last three decades of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s career, until his death in 1919. The exhibition presents approximately 80 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Renoir, interspersed with select works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Aristide Maillol, and Pierre Bonnard, to illustrate the developing avantgarde’s debt to the older master. Curated by LACMA curator Claudia Einecke and ... Read More
Hair Tactics at Jersey City Museum
Hair Tactics explores hair as subject matter and medium. Increasingly, artists have begun to use both real and synthetic human hair to create works of art. Open through August 22, 2010. Some exhibits use synthetic hair because it is widely and inexpensively available in urban neighborhoods, others because it is laden with social and political meaning, and still others because they are exploring the human obsession with hair. Texts written in hair, fancy hair motifs used to decorate a love letter, extravagant and ... Read More
Abstract Visions: 20th Century American Art at The Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
The Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art presents “Abstract Visions: 20th Century American Art”. Selected from Cheekwood’s permanent art collection, these paintings and works on paper form a survey of abstract art from the second half of the 20th Century. On view through May 3. www.cheekwood.org ... Read More
Tampa Museum of Art Forthcoming Exhibitions
The Tampa Museum of Art has announced it’s schedule of exhibitions in conjunction with the public opening of the new building. Designed by noted architect Stanley Saitowitz of San Francisco-based Natoma Architects, Inc., the 66,000-square-foot glimmering metal mesh-clad structure is dynamically situated atop the new Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. The new museum building is named the Cornelia Corbett Center in honor of Cornelia Corbett, whose family provided the lead gift to the institution’s ... Read More
Faster than the Eye Can See: Photographs by Harold Edgerton at The Delaware Art Museum
The Delaware Art Museum presents Faster than the Eye Can See: Photographs by Harold Edgerton, featuring 18 photographs produced at ultra high-speed, open through April 25, 2010. Edgerton redefined the limits of vision, showing things invisible to the unaided eye by stopping time and making it possible to witness split seconds. Produced with a strobe light, which he invented, Edgerton’s exposures could be as brief as 1/1,000,000 of a second, allowing him to capture a bullet piercing an apple or a hummingbird in ... Read More
Austin Museum of Art announces American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print
“Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms.” —The Hatch Brothers This sentiment was certainly true in 1879 when brothers Herbert H. and Charles R. Hatch opened Hatch Show Print, a printing shop in Nashville. Their handcrafted posters screamed slogans such as “More Power, More Pep,” “So Many Girls You Can’t Count Them All,” and “Always Clean, Always Good.” Now 130 years later, Hatch posters hold their own as a stirring and refreshingly tactile contrast to the digital ... Read More
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum
Nearly 200 Artists, Architects, and Designers Imagine Dream Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum as Finale to 50th Anniversary Year NEW YORK, NY Since its opening in 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim building has served as an inspiration for invention, challenging artists and architects to react to its eccentric, organic design. The central void of the rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and memorable ... Read More
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Presents Three new Exhibitions
Wellesley, MA – In the winter/spring of 2010, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College will present a new sound and light installation by Stephen Vitiello and two complementary Indian art exhibits: Seeing God in Prints: Indian Lithographs from the Collection of Mark Baron and Elisa Boisanté and Painted Songs & Stories: Contemporary Pardhan Gond Art from India. Two installations currently at the Davis – Christine Hiebert’s Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings; and Michael ... Read More
The Puppet State Theatre Company of Edinburgh at Long Island Children’s Museum
The Puppet State Theatre Company of Edinburgh, Scotland will present their only NY area performances at the Long Island Children’s Museum Theatre on Saturday, February 27 at 1 and 3 p.m. The internationally acclaimed theater company will present The Man Who Planted Trees, an inspirational tale that shares a powerful message about ecology and environmental sustainability; demonstrating how one man’s determination, dedication and faith can change the world. In this multisensory performance, audiences not only ... Read More
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