Articles in Fine Art
Carnegie Museum of Art opens Duncan Campbell exhibition
The Carnegie Museum of Art presents an exhibition of work by Duncan Campbell, on view April 28–July 8, 2012.Duncan Campbell, Make It New John, 2009, video; black-and-white and color, sound, 50 min, courtesy the artist and Hotel, London Carnegie Museum of Art presents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of works by acclaimed artist-filmmaker Duncan Campbell (b. 1972, Dublin). The Glasgow-based artist’s recent films push the boundaries between the actual and the artful in historical ... Read More
Toledo Museum of Art to Host Manet Portraiture Exhibition
An exhibition of portraits by acclaimed French artist Edouard Manet, sometimes referred to as “the father of Impressionism,” opens this fall at the Toledo Museum of Art, the exclusive North American venue for Manet: Portraying Life. Co-organized by TMA and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the exhibition will be seen Oct. 7, 2012–Jan.1, 2013 in Toledo. The exhibition will move to the Royal Academy of Arts for exhibition Jan. 26–April 14, 2013. A contemporary of the Impressionists, ... Read More
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag opens highlights from the Mauritshuis collection exhibition
The Mauritshuis embarks on a unique collaboration with the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, on view from 28 April 2012Johannes Vermeer, Gezicht op Delft, c.1660-1661 Canvas, 96,5 x 115,7 cm. Mauritshuis Around 100 highlights from the Mauritshuis collection are on display at the Gemeentemuseum for a period of about two years. The paintings include View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer, The Bull by Paulus Potter and The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn. The collaboration is the ... Read More
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture announces move to Gorky Park
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture announced today its plans for 2012, continuing in its aim to bring the best international modern and contemporary culture from around the world to Russia, and raising the profile of Russian contemporary artists internationally. Garage will move to a new location in Gorky Park, Moscow from 2012 to develop and regenerate a number of temporary and permanent spaces. The first phase in Moscow includes a new temporary home designed by Rem Koolhaas’s Office ... Read More
Arnolfini announces Superpower. Africa in Science Fiction
Arnolfini presents Superpower. Africa in Science Fiction, an exhibition on view 5 May–1 July 2012. Luis Dourado, Untitled. Courtesy of the artist Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction surveys the recent tendency for artists and filmmakers to apply the forms and concerns of science fiction to narratives situated in the African continent. It considers the complex undercurrents for this occurrence in art today, and posits other and possible realities existing simultaneously, via careful ... Read More
Swiss Institute announces Painting and Jugs exhibition
The Swiss Institute, New York presents Painting and Jugs, an exhibition on view May 3–June 3, 2012. Opening: Wednesday, May 2, 6–8pm. Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, P.258, 2012. Painting and Jugs is comprised of large-scale paintings and handmade ceramics, combining two adaptations of traditional media. The exhibition addresses form and content while underscoring an affinity for collaborative production, a mode at the core of both bodies of work. Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard access the ... Read More
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) presents a selection of contemporary artworks from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba
On view through August 20, 2012, CIFO: Una mirada múltiple. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, curated by Osbel Suárez, showcases a cross section of the collection and presents to the public a compilation of works by over 60 artists from North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia, who have witnessed and played key roles in changes that have occurred in the most significant trends in art over the last fifty years. Stan Douglas, “Private Home/Paladar ‘La ... Read More
National Gallery of Australia opens Eugene von Guerard. Nature revealed retrospective
The National Gallery of Australia presents Eugene von Guérard: Nature revealed one of the most important retrospectives of Australian colonial landscape art, on display from 27 April to 15 July 2012. Entry into the exhibition is free.Eugene von Guérard, Weatherboard Creek Falls, Jamieson’s Valley, New South Wales 1862. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of the ANZ Banking Group Limited, Honoary ... Read More
Prizewinning Nick Fox Painting donated to Walker Art Gallery
John Moores Painting Prize 2010 exhibitor Nick Fox has gifted his prizewinning painting Metatopia to the Walker Art Gallery. Metatopia was one of four other prizewinners in 2010. It goes on display next to the 2010 winner, Spectrum Jesus by Keith Coventry and joins the gallery’s outstanding collection of contemporary art. The painting forms part of a unique display which traces the last 55 years of the John Moores Painting Prize, and in doing so represents the shifts and trends of over ... Read More
New Museum New York presents We Who Feel Differently. A Symposium
The New Museum in New York presents We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium, on May 4–5, 2012, in the New Museum Theater. Leading up to the exhibition, “We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium” will investigate what is at stake and what is made possible by embracing difference as a queer strategy within contemporary art, politics, and society. The two-day symposium was conceived by performance artist and scholar Raegan Truax and artist Carlos Motta, and will be moderated by Ann Pellegrini, ... Read More
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