The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled plans for a comprehensive redesign of the four-block-long outdoor plaza that runs in front of its landmark Fifth Avenue façade, from 80th to 84th Streets in Manhattan. Rendering showing bird’s-eye view of proposed Fifth Avenue plaza redesign (image: OLIN) The plan also calls for the creation of new fountains—to replace the deteriorating ones that have been in use since they were built in the 1970s along with the existing plaza. The fountains will be ... Read More
Exact fossil replicas of two of the most complete skeletons of early human relatives ever found have been donated to the Natural History Museum in London, of which the skull is on display from 16 November 2011. Australopithecus sediba, Natural History Museum The ancient human-like species, Australopithecus sediba, is 1.98 million years old and could be the ancestor to the first humans. The skeleton casts have been donated by the University of the Witwatersrand and the Government of the Republic of South ... Read More
The Harvard Art Museums and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts present Laurel Nakadate. Say You Love Me a new exhibition on view Nov 17 2011 — Dec 22 2011. Exorcism in January, 2009, Laurel Nakadate, Type C-print, 30 x 40 in. Photo: Courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York. This installation at the Sert Gallery will feature a selection of videos by the artist, filmmaker, and photographer Laurel Nakadate, whose work pushes the boundaries of voyeurism, exhibitionism, and vulnerability. In ... Read More
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) announce the presentation of Ocean Without a Shore (2007), a major video installation by internationally acclaimed artist Bill Viola and a significant new addition to the museum’s collection. Exhibited in the United States for the first time, this profound and moving work of art can be experienced at PAFA from November 19 onward. “Bill Viola is one of the most significant American artists working today, “says Harry Philbrick, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of ... Read More
The transformation of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will continue with a major project to renew the building’s 120,000-square-foot west exhibition wing. (The museum’s center core and east wing will remain open.) The plans feature new galleries, an education center, interior public plazas and performance spaces as well as modernizing the infrastructure in this section of the building, including wireless environments. A new panoramic window on the first floor will give a sweeping view ... Read More
From November 14, a unique type of space show will play outside the Hayden Planetarium. Bright green waves of laser light will ripple across the Hayden Sphere from 5 to 11 pm every evening until Sunday, November 27, to illustrate how the Hubble Space Telescope analyzes distant galaxies, quasars, and other celestial objects in the universe—and to mark the opening of Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration later this month. The laser art, From the Distant Past, was created by German artist Tim Otto ... Read More
The Miami Art Museum presents Focus: Marcel Duchamp an exhibition on view November 17, 2011 – March 18, 2012. De ou par Marcel Duchamp our Rrose Sélavy (Boîte-en-valise) (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy [Box in a Suitcase]) Series D, 1941/1961 Box covered in linen containing miniature replicas and color reproductions of works by Duchamp (68 items) Edition 1/30 Collection Miami Art Museum, museum purchase with funds from Lang Baumgarten as well as from Mimi Floback and Sally Ashton Story in memory ... Read More
The Museum of Nature & Science announced that it has not only surpassed its $185 million goal to build the new Perot Museum of Nature & Science but achieved the milestone more than a year before the doors open to the Victory Park facility. The announcement came just minutes after Museum leaders revealed that The Moody Foundation had contributed $6 million to name the Children’s Museum and the education Forum at the new Perot Museum of Nature & Science. “Despite the challenges of ... Read More
The Bielefelder Kunstverein presents Children’s Films By Ulla von Brandenburg, Keren Cytter, Geoffrey Farmer, Julia Feyrer and Harrell Fletcher, on 19 November 2011–29 January 2012. Gareth Moore, “Children’s Films (Title Sequence),” 2011. For his project “Children’s Films” Gareth Moore has asked five international artists to produce short films for children. The artists invited, Ulla von Brandenburg (*1974), Keren Cytter (*1977), Geoffrey Farmer (*1967), Julia Feyrer ... Read More
Bielefelder Kunstverein presents Luke Fowler & Toshiya Tsunoda imprint/field/surface on view 19 November 2011–29 January 2012. The exhibition entitled “imprint/field/surface” shows film and sound installations, photographs and photo collages by the artists, Luke Fowler (*1978, lives and works in Glasgow) and Toshiya Tsunoda (*1964, lives and works in Yokohama). Their works function at the threshold between sound and image. An installation spread over four spaces at Bielefelder Kunstverein ... Read More
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the percentage for art programme in government buildings in the Netherlands. Since the beginning of the programme, more than 2,500 works of art have been commissioned by the Government Building Agency and overseen under the responsibility of the Chief Government Architect. This art collection includes commissioned work by artists such as Marlene Dumas, Joseph Kosuth, Bik van der Pol, Jan Dibbits, Germaine Kruip, Monika Sosnowska, Simon Starling, and Spencer Finch. On ... Read More
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