Articles in Museum News
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Announces New Online Guide to Design Week NYC
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has launched a new mobile-ready website, designweeknyc.org, highlighting design-related events around the city during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, May 19–22. Design Week NYC is a grassroots initiative convened to celebrate design at ICFF and the satellite fairs and events being held around the city, including American Design Club’s exhibition at Heller Gallery, Model Citizen, Noho Design District and WantedDesign. The site ... Read More
Taipei Museum and the Herzliya Museum presents Boundaries on the Move. A Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Taipei Museum and the Herzliya Museum, Israel present Boundaries on the Move. A Cross-Cultural Dialogue. The exhibition will run from 18 May to 11 August 2012 at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.Chen Chieh-Jen, Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprises, Inc. (still), 2010. Three channel video installation. Courtesy of the artist. The most obvious contextual concept of the boundary is linked to that of the nation-state. Often associated with the territory or border of a country, ... Read More
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents Rita McBride. Public Tender
The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents Rita McBride. Public Tender, an exhibition on view 18 May–24 September 2012. Alexander Hick, Day After Day (film still), 2011. Courtesy the artist Educated in the United States but based in Germany, Rita McBride is a professor at the prestigious Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her work explores the production of public space and the reception of culture through sculptures that recreate familiar elements from our immediate environment. ... Read More
Monnaie de Paris to host Museum Night on 19 May
Still undergoing transformation, the Monnaie de Paris will open an evening event space to the public with Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market on Saturday 19 May, 6pm–midnight. Rob Pruitt has brought together a wide range of his close friends to take part in this performance which promises to be once of the most rich and unexpected projects of Museum Night in Paris. At the heart of this unusual flea market, artists will present objects dear to them or which they have cobbled together, empty their ... Read More
PinchukArtCentre presents Anish Kapoor solo exhibition
The PinchukArtCentre presents a solo exhibition by Anish Kapoor, on view 19 May–30 September 2012. The show includes a selection of the artist’s most iconic works together with a new monumental steel work created specially for the PinchukArtCentre.Anish Kapoor, Shooting into the Corner, 2008–2009. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Installation: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009. Photo: Dave Morgan. Courtesy the artist and The Royal Academy of Arts.Anish Kapoor is one of the most ... Read More
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) announces Kevin Cole. Straight From The Soul, 25 Years In The Making
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) presents Kevin Cole. Straight From The Soul, 25 Years In The Making, an exhibition on view May 19 – July 28, 2012. “Much of my work has dealt with the necktie as a symbol. My grandfather told me that African-Americans were lynched by their neckties on their way to vote. That left a profound impression on me,” the artist, Kevin Cole, states. “Since 1992, my work has evolved to include the relationship between color and music, ... Read More
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute opens Mark Dion Installation
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents a new installation by artist Mark Dion, Phantoms of the Clark Expedition, on view May 9 to August 3, 2012 reflecting on the history of exploration and on an expedition to North China that the Institute’s founder Sterling Clark undertook in 1908. The installation consists of a series of dioramas and sculptures representing objects and specimens that would have been used or collected during expeditions that occurred in that era. The ... Read More
The Renaissance Society opens Picturing People by Dawoud Bey
The Renaissance Society presents Picturing People by Dawoud Bey, an exhibition on view May 13–June 24, 2012. Dawoud Bey, Rudy Nimocks and Lindsay Atnip, Hyde Park, Chicago, 2012. Pigment print, 40 x 48 inches. Courtesy the artist. Since 1975, Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture as means for understanding contemporary social circumstances. Ranging from chance street encounters to studio portraits, Bey has ... Read More
Cantor Arts Center Opens Central Nigeria Unmasked. Arts of the Benue River Valley
The Cantor Arts Center presents Central Nigeria Unmasked. Arts of the Benue River Valley, an exhibition on view May 16–October 14, 2012. Presenting more than 150 objects drawn from international collections, the exhibition gives a comprehensive view of the arts from along the river that flows across the center of Nigeria, joining the great Niger River on its way to the Atlantic Ocean. “Central Nigeria Unmasked,” reveals arts and cultures of diverse peoples who are far less known and ... Read More
National Museum of Natural History presents Sammy Baloji.The Beautiful Time photography exhibition
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has opened a temporary exhibition, “The Beautiful Time: Photography by Sammy Baloji,” which evokes the memory of Congolese workers whose labor during the colonial period created a once-vibrant copper mining industry in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sammy Baloji, Untitled, 2006. Digital C-Print. 11 x 14.2 in. Images courtesy Museum for African Art Baloji’s large photographic collages layer ... Read More
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