Articles in Museum News
Tony Auth Retrospective Opens June 2 at the Michener Art Museum
A retrospective of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Tony Auth will be on view at the Michener Art Museum June 2 to October 21 in the Fred Beans Gallery. To Stir, Inform and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth is sponsored anonymously, with additional support from Deborah & Arthur Corsini, Caroline & David Rasner and Williams & Hand, P.C.Tony Auth The Trojan Elephant, Pen and ink on paper, finished in Photoshop, 14 x 11 (image size: 12 x 8) Collection of the art“This ... Read More
Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) announces
The Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), in partnership with the Virreina Centre de la Imatge de Barcelona, presents Número tres, de la casa a la fábrica. This exhibition of photography and video reconsiders the link between work and home, thirty-seven years after Jean-Luc Godard’s film Numéro deux. Exhibition open 31 May–30 September 2012. Inspired by the Jean-Luc Godard’s fusion of house and factory, Número tres offers a new take on the forms, ideas, and figures invented by ... Read More
Cincinnati Museum Center turns on fountain and kicks off a summer overflowing with great programming
CINCINNATI – You know it’s almost summer in Cincinnati when you see Cincinnati Museum Center’s Union Terminal fountain on in all its glory! This morning, Museum Center turned on the fountain with the help of our community. Guests were invited to join and help countdown as the fountain was brought to life for the summer of 2012. The celebration was a kick-off for a summer overflowing with fun and educational programming for the whole family. Join us this summer for 100 Days of Fun, a ... Read More
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) announce free daily events this summer
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St Michaels, MD, is offering a full roster of daily events for museum guests this Memorial Day through Labor Day.CBMM’s Sailing Saturdays program is offered on select weekends throughout the summer at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. Participants can try their hand sailing the museum’s Apprentice For a Day sailing and rowing skiffs. Kid-themed, hand-on activities are offered on Thursdays and Fridays from 2-4pm. ... Read More
Ursula Blickle Foundation in collaboration with Westfalischer Kunstverein Munster presents Sapountzis. Videos and Picnic
Ursula Blickle Foundation in collaboration with Westfalischer Kunstverein Munster will present the two-part solo show Videos and Picnic and The Gadfly Festival by Yorgos Sapountzis on 20 May–8 July 2012. Yorgos Sapountzis, Fast Cast Past, 2011. Video still. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi. The works of Yorgos Sapountzis engage with public space, placing it in a new consciousness incorporating both the past and the present. Many of his projects take as their starting ... Read More
International Center of Photography opens Christer Stromholm. Les Amies de Place Blanche
The International Center of Photography presents Christer Stromholm. Les Amies de Place Blanche, an exhibition on view from May 18, 2012 through September 2, 2012.Christer Strömholm, Jacky, 1961. © Christer Strömholm/Strömholm Estate. Raising profound issues about identity, sexuality, and gender, Christer Strömholm: Les Amies de Place Blanche, on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street), presents 40 photographs, historical ... Read More
Frist Center for the Visual Arts announces Carrie Mae Weems. Three Decades of Photography and Video
The first major museum retrospective devoted to contemporary artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems—widely acclaimed as one of today’s most eloquent and respected interpreters of the African American experience—opens on September 21, 2012, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. Some 225 photographs, installations, and videos, selected from more than fifteen museums and private collections, offer an unprecedented and compelling survey of Weems’s thirty-year ... Read More
Carnegie Museum of Art announces Inventing the Modern World Showcases Decorative Arts and Design Innovations from World’s Fairs
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh announces Inventing the Modern World Showcases Decorative Arts and Design Innovations from World’s Fairs, an exhibition on view from October 13, 2012. From their inception in 1851, the world’s fairs showcased, obsessed over, and enthralled the visiting public with the cutting edge of industry, production, new materials, and methods, for creating everything from tools to jewelry, furniture to textiles. In doing so, artists and manufacturers used ... Read More
Morgan Library & Museum opens Renaissance Venice. Drawings from the Morgan
The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition of drawings and related material, featuring work by masters such as Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Carpaccio that brings to life the dynamic artistic and cultural milieu of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice. On view May 18 through September 23, 2012, the show also includes books and maps that reveal Venice’s role at the forefront of luxury book production and innovative printing. Paolo Veronese (1528–1588)Studies for The ... Read More
National Museum of African Art to Participate in Art Museum Day on May 18
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will join museums all over the world in celebrating Art Museum Day Friday, May 18. The museum will honor the occasion from 1 to 2 p.m. with a live performance by Jabari Exum of Farafina Kan and a meet and greet with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the museum. “I visit my art museum because ….” is the tagline for this year’s Art Museum Day and attendees will be invited to share their responses to the tagline via Twitter and on forms ... Read More
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