Articles in Museum News
New Museum Announces Maya Lin as the 2012 Visionary Speaker
The New Museum announce that Maya Lin will be featured as this year’s Visionary speaker. The Visionaries Series at the New Museum, supported by the Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund, honors leading international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design, and related disciplines of contemporary culture. In its fourth season, the annual series spotlights innovators who are shaping intellectual life and defining the future of culture today. Prior Visionaries include legendary ... Read More
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage opens Pope John Paul II exhibition
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage presents A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People, an interactive experience, on view May 18 through August 5, 2012, that allows visitors to follow in John Paul II’s footsteps from his childhood to his role as head of the world’s largest church. The Museum hopes the exhibition will inspire visitors to live out the pope’s request for interfaith understanding. Pope John Paul II travelled extensively and met with believers ... Read More
Singapore Art Museum presents Panorama. Recent Art from Contemporary Asia
The Singapore Art Museum presents Panorama. Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, on view through 25 December 2012, the first permanent exhibition that draws from SAM’s contemporary art collection to reflect and document the changes Asian societies have undergone in the last two decades. In this era of rapid change, the artworks in this new series of exhibitions provide a wide lens to examine the varied perspectives on topical issues prevalent in the world and in contemporary art-making in ... Read More
IZOLYATSIA Platform for Cultural Initiatives announces Partly Cloudy photography exhibition
IZOLYATSIA Platform for Cultural Initiatives presents Partly Cloudy a photography exhibition on view 3 June–1 October 2012. Richard Ansett, “Partly Cloudy,” 2011. Design by Dima Sergeev, IZOLYATSIA The series on show—presented in the various warehouses of the IZOLYATSIA territory—are the final products of the research projects conducted by eight artists-in-residence: Richard Ansett, Nuno Barroso, Marina Black, Marco Citron, Homer (Sasha Kurmaz), Flavia Junqueira, Natalia ... Read More
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents Christina Mackie exhibition opening 25 May
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents an exhibition of work by Christina Mackie on view 25 May–5 August 2012. This is the first exhibition in Scandinavia by the Canadian artist Christina Mackie, and consists of an extraordinary installation that features such diverse elements as watercolors, photographs, and ceramics, as well as found materials that range from mineral deposits to plastic beer crates. The exhibition follows Mackie’s ongoing fascination with both human technologies and natural ... Read More
Kunsthal Charlottenborg announces Thomas Kilpper. Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech
Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen presents a major installation by the German artist Thomas Kilpper, entitled Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech, on view 25 May–5 August 2012.Thomas Kilpper workshop, dispari&dispari project, Reggio Emilia, 2012 Charlottenborg presents a major installation by the German artist Thomas Kilpper, entitled Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech. The work was originally created for the Danish Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, where it took the ... Read More
Christopher Baker announced as new director of Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery announced that Christopher Baker has been appointed as the new Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, following an international search led by the recruitment company Odgers Berndtson. He will take up his position at the Portrait Gallery on 1 August 2012. Mr Baker has been Deputy Director of the Scottish National Gallery since 2003 and was previously Curator at Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford. He enjoys an international ... Read More
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) opens Thomas Demand solo exhibition
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents Ta solo exhibition by Thomas Demand, on view 19 May– 8 July 2012. This exhibition will be the first in a Japanese museum to present a comprehensive view of Demand’s activities, from his early works to his recent film pieces as well as his well-known pieces such as Bathroom (1997) and Grotto (2006).Thomas Demand, Kontrollraum / Control Room, 2011. C-print. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / APG-JAA, Tokyo. Courtesy Sprüth Magers ... Read More
University of Virginia Art Museum announces Emilio Sanchez. Cityscapes
The University of Virginia Art Museum presents Emilio Sanchez. Cityscapes an exhibition on view May 30 – August 12, 2012. Emilio Sanchez American, b. Cuba, 1921-1999 Untitled, New York Skies, 1980s Oil on canvas, 14 x 14 in 35.56 x 35.56 cm Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation, 2011.3.3 © Emilio Sanchez Foundation Featuring works recently acquired by UVaM, Emilio Sanchez: Cityscapes will examine the life and work of the Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez, with a particular focus on ... Read More
Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato, in collaboration with Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai presents Moving Image in China 1988–2011
The Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato, in collaboration with Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, presents the first large scale exhibition of the story of Chinese video art: Moving Image in China 1988–2011, on view through 1 August 2012. A selection of over forty works that recount the birth and development of the genre in China, from the first video created by Zhang Peili at the end of the nineteen eighties, up to one of the latest grand productions of the international star ... Read More
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