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WIELS Contemporary Art Centre announce Rosemarie Trockel. Flagrant Delight
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre presents Rosemarie Trockel. Flagrant Delight an exhibition on view 18 February– 27 May 2012. The exhibition Flagrant Delight provides an overview of the work of German artist Rosemarie Trockel, one of the major artists of her generation, in Belgium. Through a very personal and subjective approach to avant-garde themes, she proposed an alternative to rigid formalism and expressive painting at the beginning of the 1980s, and thus laid the foundations for what became ... Read More
Experience Appalachian Culture at Cincinnati Museum Center
Free Insights film and discussion on Friday, and Culture Fest activities Saturday and Sunday bring the mountain culture to you! CINCINNATI – Are you curious about Appalachian culture? Join us Feb. 17, 18 and 19 as we explore the sounds, entertainment, goods and challenges of Appalachia. The Last Mountain film screening and discussion – Friday, Feb. 17 Kick-off the weekend with a special Insights Lecture Series documentary film screening and panel discussion of The Last Mountain. The film begins at 6 ... Read More
Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens announces Ghosts, Goblin, and Gods. The Supernatural in Japanese Art
The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens announces Ghosts, Goblin, and Gods: The Supernatural in Japanese Art, an exhibition on view May 22 – September 16, 2012. The Morikami Museum The tenets of Shintō, Japan’s native religion are based on the belief that spirits inhabit the natural world, both animate and inanimate objects including rocks, mountains, trees, rivers and lakes. Some of these gods are regarded as guardian spirits while others are harmful tricksters, deceiving humans and coaxing them into ... Read More
Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens opens Old Techniques, New Interpretations. Japanese Prints from the Paul and Christine Meehan Collection
The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens presents Old Techniques, New Interpretations. Japanese Prints from the Paul and Christine Meehan Collection, an exhibition on view February 7, 2012 – May 6, 2012. Yoshio Imamura Geography 2003 Etching In the early 20th century, Japanese woodblock print-making experienced a revival with the development of shin hanga, the ‘modern print’ movement, and sōsaku hanga, the ‘creative print’ movement. While shin hanga attempted to revive the techniques and subject ... Read More
Norton Museum of Art presents exhibition of works by Tacita Dean
The Norton Museum of Art presents an exhibition of works by Tacita Dean, on view through May 6, 2012. Tacita Dean, Fernweh, 2009. Gravure in eight parts. Edition of 10, 90 ½ x 197 inches overall. Published by the artist and Niels Borch Jensen Galerie, Berlin© Tacita Dean. Courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, Frith Street Gallery, London, and Niels Borch Jensen Galerie, Berlin. Collection of the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. The Norton Museum’s exhibition of work by Tacita ... Read More
Center for Creative Photography presents Ansel Adams. The View from Here
The Center for Creative Photography presents Ansel Adams. The View from Here an exhibition on view through March 4, 2012. Ansel Adams, Oak Tree, Sunset City, Sierra Foothills, California, 1962. Ansel Adams Archive.© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust Collection, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Perhaps no photographer’s work has enjoyed such popularity as Ansel Adams’s awe-inspiring views of the natural world. His early trips to the Yosemite wilderness in the 1910s, ... Read More
Metropolitan Museum of Art opens Spies in the House of Art. Photography, Film, and Video
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Spies in the House of Art. Photography, Film, and Video an exhibition on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 7 through August 26, 2012, that draws largely from the Museum’s collection to focus on artists from the last three decades who explore the secret lives of museums. This installation in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography features 17 works, half of which have never been shown before at the Metropolitan. Cindy Sherman Untitled ... Read More
Center for Creative Photography Acquires the Jack Welpott Archive
The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona Libraries announced that it has acquired the photographic archive of internationally renowned artist Jack Welpott. “We are thrilled that the Jack Welpott Legacy Trust has chosen the Center for Creative Photography as the permanent home for the Welpott archive,” comments Katharine Martinez, the Center’s director. “Welpott was an accomplished photographer and a key member of the rich community of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area during ... Read More
Make a Difference at the UMFA. Become a Museum Docent
Attention all museum lovers, cultural enthusiasts, history buffs and devoted art advocates: Are you looking for a way to serve and inspire others in your community? The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is looking for passionate volunteers to serve as weekend docents! The UMFA depends on a dedicated docent team each year to fulfill its mission and guide thousands of visitors through its halls. Docents will have the opportunity to delve deep into art history and the UMFA’s exhibitions, gain valuable communication ... Read More
Bonniers Konsthall to host Before and After Cinema conference
Bonniers Konsthall presents Before and After Cinema an international conference in Stockholm on 9–10 March, 2012. Before and After Cinema is an international conference on the status of the moving image in contemporary art, in the perspective of the shift from analogue to digital media, and what this means to distribution, perception, archiving and the making of art and film. The conference is a part of a larger collaboration between Bonniers Konsthall and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The conference is ... Read More
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