The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago announces Feast. Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art an exhibition on view February 16–June 10, 2012. Mella Jaarsma, “I Eat You Eat Me,” 2002. Photographic documentation […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
The KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents YOU KILLED ME FIRST The Cinema of Transgression, February–9 April 2012. Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses—the films of the Cinema of […]
The Byzantine & Christian Museum presents an exhibition at Athens International Airpor, on view through April 30th, 2012. The Byzantine Museum completed one year ago its new Permanent Exhibition of the Museum’s Collections, which was […]
Matthias Waschek, director of the Worcester Art Museum, has named Susan L. Stoops to serve as Interim Chief Curator, effective immediately. Stoops is the Curator of Contemporary Art and will retain those responsibilities in addition […]
The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland presents Mark Rothko. Selections from the National Gallery of Art, an exhibition on view FEBRUARY 4 – APRIL 22, 2012. Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1952, Oil on canvas, National […]
The Qatar Museums Authority presents Murakami – Ego a new exhibition by Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami, on View February 9 – June 24, 2012 in Doha, Qatar. Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) is proud to announce […]
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has acquired one of fewer than a dozen known still lifes painted in the late 1840s by African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872). Classically composed, Still Life […]
The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye an exhibition on view 9 February–13 May 2012. Edvard Munch (1863–1944) is acclaimed for his emotional Symbolist painting and regarded as a pioneer of Expressionism. […]
As part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundations yearlong celebration of the 75th anniversary of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s desert masterpiece in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Foundation is hosting a reception on February 16th at […]
Storm King Art Center presents Light and Landscape, a major exhibition, on view May 12–November 11, 2012, devoted to work by artists who investigate and experiment with the creative possibilities of natural light. Organized by […]
The robot R2-D2 and other Star Wars characters will be among the guests at the annual Northwest Scale Modelers Show at the Museum on Feb. 18 and 19. The NorthWest Scale Modelers membership will push […]
DOYLESTOWN, PA–In the 1950s, Rosie the Riveter morphed into Betty Crocker, and Madison Avenue’s seductive images of happiness and contentment in the home governed women’s lives. Sylvia Getsler chose a different path. The Michener Art […]
The New Museum in New York presents a Focused Survey of Work by Klara Liden, on view from May 9–July 1, 2012, featuring a selection of works in the Museum’s second floor gallery. Lidén’s exhibition […]
The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin College presents Artists on Artists exhibition, on view February 7, through July 29, 2012. For nearly as long as artists have been making art, they have also […]
The Centre for Fine Arts presents a retrospective of the work of Per Kirkeby (born in 1938), on view Friday 10.02 – Sunday 20.05.2012 Per Kirkeby Vermisst die Welt, 1997 Oil on canvas 300 x […]
The Birmingham Museum of Art opens The Look of Love. Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection, an exhibition on view from February 7, 2012 to June 10, 2012. Exquisite in craftsmanship, unique in detail, and […]
The Museum of Modern Art New York announces Documentary Fortnight: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, on February 16–28, 2012. Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis, 2011. USA. Directed […]
The Serpentine Gallery announce that Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei will create the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. It will be the twelfth commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most […]