Articles in Museum News
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum presents Mark Dion. Troubleshooting
The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum presents Mark Dion. Troubleshooting an exhibition on view through March 3, 2012. For decades, Mark Dion has created drawings, prints, cabinets of curiosity, archaeological digs, and sprawling installations about the discrepancy between perceived knowledge and scientific inquiry, between common perception and advanced research. His works have addressed famous intellectuals in history, such as William Bartram, as well as important social and environmental ... Read More
Portland Art Museum presents Tanja Alexia Hollander. Are You Really My Friend?
The Portland Art Museum presents Tanja Alexia Hollander. Are You Really My Friend? open February 4, 2012 – June 17, 2012. Tanja Hollander, June Fitzpatrick, Portland, Maine, 2011, Archival pigment print. Courtesy of Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA. Facebook friendships exist in the nebulous world of cyberspace. Social networking creates a forum where we may connect or reconnect deeply with dear friends or become acquainted with new ones on a superficial level. What happens when we reach across real time ... Read More
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion announces School of Art + Design Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibition
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion presents School of Art + Design Bachelor of Fine Arts an exhibition on view May 6 through 13, 2012. In this annual exhibition, BFA graduates present a range of art and design studio practices that illustrate new and established technologies in material and virtual realms. The exhibition gives public form to an undergraduate curriculum committed to the arts as both a distinct and necessary approach to understanding, as well as an expression of diverse human experiences. ... Read More
Oakland Museum of California opens Space-Light-Structure. The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta
The Oakland Museum of California presents Space-Light-Structure. The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta an exhibition on view February 4, 2012 – May 13, 2012. Presented in conjunction with the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Oakland Museum of California presents a retrospective exhibition on the work of pioneer jeweler Margaret De Patta. A seminal figure in the American Modernist Jewelry movement, De Patta was born in 1903 and moved to the Bay Area in 1923. Distinguished as one of the few American ... Read More
McLoughlin House Reopens February 11
The McLoughlin House unit of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site will re-open to the public on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. The site’s opening will showcase some exciting new programs: a new exhibit of historic nineteenth century quilts; a hands-on demonstration of rug-hooking, and some big changes inside the McLoughlin House. Two 1840s quilts from a private collection adorn the girls bedroom at McLoughlin House, HEIDI PIERSON, NPS Through the end of March, the McLoughlin House hosts a new ... Read More
Vicksburg National Military Park Celebrates National Black History Month
Vicksburg National Military Park will celebrate the observance of National Black History Month with a series of special programs and exhibits during the month of February. African-American Monument sculpted by Kim Sessums, NPS PHOTO Beginning February 4th and running through March 3rd, the park will host an exhibition of the artwork of Kim Sessums at the park visitor center. Entitled “Civil War Tribute,” Sessums’ sculptures and paintings pay homage to the African-American soldiers who served in ... Read More
Lewis Glucksman Gallery presents From Highwood to Home. Highlights from a private collection
The Lewis Glucksman Gallery presents From Highwood to Home. Highlights from a private collection an exhibition on view through 18 March 2012. Taking its title from a Nick Miller painting featured in the exhibition, From Highwood to Home presents the works of contemporary Irish artists in a significant private collection of Irish art. The selected works each address and interpret local territories, albeit in very different ways. From the thrilling seascape painting of Donald Teskey to the politically charged ... Read More
National Gallery of Denmark opens Hammershoi and Europe exhibition
The National Gallery of Denmark presents Hammershoi and Europe an exhibition on view 4 February – 20 May 2012. Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864 – 1916), Interior from Strandgade with Sunlight on the Floor, 1901. Oil on canvas, 46,5 x 52 cm. National Gallery of Denmark. Loneliness, intimacy, and alienation. With his timeless and universal subject matter and his unmistakable, carefully restricted palette Vilhelm Hammershøi is one of the most important and distinctive figures in the history of Danish art. His ... Read More
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum announces new appointments
Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announce the appointment of Beth Comstock as president and Judy Francis Zankel as secretary of its board of trustees. The Smithsonian’s board of regents voted Jan. 23 to appoint Dr. Alberto Eiber to the board of Cooper-Hewitt. Carnegie Mansion Photo: Dennis Cowley “We are excited that Beth and Judy have assumed these leadership roles during this important time in the museum’s history,” said Bill Moggridge, director. Cooper-Hewitt’s main facility, ... Read More
Museum of Contemporary Photography (MOCP) presents The Limits of Photography
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MOCP) presents The Limits of Photography an exhibition on view through March 25, 2012. Randy Hayes, Kyoto Japan, 2011 “The Limits of Photography” explores the area where the viewer loses confidence in the veracity of a photographically based work. We have been confident since the beginning of widely published photographic images in the late 1920s that photographs are telling us something very truthful about the world. This notion can be challenged when the ... Read More
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