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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts announces Fabulous Flatware exhibition
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts presents Fabulous Flatware – Non-traditional Tools for the Table an exhibition on view June 23 to September 16, 2012.AJ Flatware, 1957; designed by Arne Jacobsen More than 100 unusual and unique flatware patterns from around the world will highlight changes in tableware from 1898 to 2011 in terms of style, size and form, functional types, designers and producers, and materials and techniques. Another 125 patterns will be organized around themes such ... Read More
Freer and Sackler Galleries Celebrate Persian New Year
The Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries presents their fourth annual Nowruz celebration, Sunday, March 4, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. This year’s program features free entertainment and activities for all ages as well as delicious traditional food, all centered around newly installed galleries devoted to the arts of ancient Iran. Visitors can look forward to a new line-up of performers. Vocalist Monika Jalili brings to life cherished Iranian songs from the 1940s to the 1970s, along with ... Read More
MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents Envisioning Buildings. reflecting architecture in contemporary art photography
THe MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents Envisioning Buildings. reflecting architecture in contemporary art photography, an exhibition on view through April 2012. Tobias Zielony, “Vela Azzurra,” 2010. From the series Vele, 2009–2010. © Tobias Zielony / courtesy Tobias Zielony and KOW Berlin ENVISIONING BUILDINGS: reflecting architecture in contemporary art photography surveys the work of 28 contemporary artists who engage with aspects of architecture and building. ENVISIONING ... Read More
BAM / PFA present Andy Warhol. Polaroids / MATRIX 240
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California (BAM/PFA) present Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240, an exhibition on view Jthrough May 20, 2012. Andy Warhol: Frau Buch, 12/1980; Polacolor 2; 4-1/4 x 3-3/8 in.; gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as ... Read More
Haggerty Museum of Art presents Selections from the Mary B. Finnigan Collection
The Haggerty Museum of Art presents Selections from the Mary B. Finnigan Collection, in an exhibition on view through May 20, 2012. A longtime supporter and Friend of the Haggerty Museum of Art board member, in 1991 Mary Finnigan gave a major gift to the museum to establish the art endowment fund, enabling the museum to collect significant 20th-Century American and European art works. Over the past twenty years, the Finnigan fund has brought 13 art gifts to the Haggerty collection. This ... Read More
Mackintosh Museum presents To Have a Voice
The Mackintosh Museum presents To Have a Voice, an exhibition on view through 31 Mar 2012. Kaye Donachie, ‘You are the wish, and I the fulfillment’, 2008, oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley, London.A group show offering the opportunity to explore contemporary figurative painting, including works by Hernan Bas, Kaye Donachie, Moyna Flannigan, Chantal Joffe, Bruno Pacheco, Gideon Rubin and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. How can a contemporary artist give a voice or fresh ... Read More
Tate St Ives presents Simon Fujiwara. Since 1982 exhibition
Tate St Ives presents Simon Fujiwara. Since 1982 an exhibition on view through 7 May 2012. Portrait of Simon Fujiwara in front of a reproduction of Patrick Heron’s “Horizontal Stripe Painting: November 1957–January 1958.” © Estate of Patrick Heron. All Rights Reserved, DACS, 2011. Photo: Benedicte Sehested. © Simon Fujiwara. Born in 1982, Fujiwara is a Berlin-based British/Japanese artist who has been building a strong reputation over the last few years. Since 1982 includes six new ... Read More
Historic Reynolda Landscape Focus of Feb. 21 Talk at Reynolda House Museum
Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host a talk titled “The Olmstedian Influence on the Reynolda Landscape,” given by Camilla Wilcox, longtime curator of education at Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University. Co-sponsored by Reynolda Gardens, Wilcox’s talk will be held on Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m. and will highlight the museum’s spring exhibition, “A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era,” which is on view Feb.18 through Aug. 5, ... Read More
National Museums Liverpool paintings join BBC Your Paintings website
All oil paintings in National Museums Liverpool have been added to the Your Paintings website. Your Paintings is a project to create a complete online catalogue of every oil painting in the national collection, whether on display or in store, at bbc.co.uk/yourpaintingsWilliam Holman Hunt (1827–1910), The Scapegoat 1854 Oil on canvas 87 x 140cm Lady Lever Art Gallery The 3,000 paintings from National Museums Liverpool are located across seven Merseyside museum sites, including the Lady ... Read More
Independent Curators International (ICI) Announce Summer 2012 Curatorial Intensive
Recognizing there are few opportunities for professionals to receive practical training and guidance while also holding down a job, the Curatorial Intensive is targeted toward self-motivated individuals—working independently or in institutions—who would benefit from a week of intensive conversations around the issues and questions that regularly arise for curators. These range from the pragmatics of developing an exhibition and building working relationships with artists to the ... Read More
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