Expansion of both building and collections places Gallery in ranks of nation’s leading public museums The Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven, Connecticut, has completed major work on its renovation and expansion and commenced installation of the museum’s esteemed collections. The revitalized Gallery will open to the public on December 12, 2012. The expansion project, which has been accompanied by parallel growth in the museum’s holdings, will transform the visitor experience, ... Read More
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
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
The Staatsgalerie Moderne Kunst presents Jerry Zeniuk. Elementary Painting, on view 16.05.2012 – 01.05.2013.Jerry Zeniuk Untitled 2008, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in., Photo: Courtesy Gallery Rupert Walser, Munich © Jerry Zeniuka branch of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, is organising a comprehensive exhibition of works by the German-American artist Jerry Zeniuk to be shown from May 2012 onwards. The exhibition, drawn up in close cooperation with the artist himself, examines all ... Read More
Tate St Ives presents Alex Katz. Give Me Tomorrow, an exhibition on view 19 May–23 September 2012. Born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, Alex Katz is one of the most important and respected living American artists. In July 2012 Katz celebrates his 85th birthday, and a career that spans a remarkable six decades. Tate St Ives Summer Exhibition 2012 brings together over 30 canvases and collages from the 1950s to now. Alex Katz, Eleuthera (detail), 1984. Private Collection, Courtesy Galería ... Read More
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
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 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
The Castello di Rivoli Museum presents Thomas Schutte. Frauen, an exhibition on view 22 May–23 September 2012. The display, which is being installed in the Manica Lunga in close cooperation with the artist himself, is curated by Andrea Bellini, co-director of Castello di Rivoli and Dieter Schwarz, director of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur. Co-produced by the Museum and Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (NMNM), the Turin exhibition is the first of two events devoted to the historic German ... Read More
At the annual meeting of its Art Collectors’ Council, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens enriched its European art collection with the acquisition of St. George and the Dragon (ca. 1522–27), a well-preserved, expertly carved polychrome and gilt wood sculpture newly attributed to master sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Giovan Angelo del Maino (ca. 1470–ca. 1536). Also acquired at the meeting on May 5 was a French Barbizon School painting, Sunshine and ... Read More
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
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