Plan will unify the MFAH campus, linking with existing gallery buildings by Mies van der Rohe and Rafael Moneo, the Glassell School of Art, as well as a sculpture garden by Isamu Noguchi, to create a nearly 10-acre public campus in the heart of Houston’s Museum District Houston — Cornelia Long, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced that Steven Holl Architects has been selected to partner with the board and staff of the museum in developing an expansion that enlarges ... Read More
The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents Shadows of History: Photographs of the Civil War from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell an exhibition on view February 4–May 6, 2012. Photographer unknown, “Ready”, Bat’y ‘A’ 2d U.S. Cord Artl’y, Lt., 1865. Albumen silver print, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. Collection of Julia J. Norrell. The American Civil War was one of the first conflicts to be extensively documented by photography. The public had never before seen such powerful images of human devastation and the ... Read More
The Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos presents Kader Attia’s Oil and Sugar #2 an exhibition on view 28 January–4 February 2012. On the occasion of the Occupy Nigeria forum, CCA, Lagos has the pleasure of presenting a video work by the Algerian artist Kader Attia. A single screen projection, Attia’s Oil and Sugar #2 (2007) is an evocative four and half minute video work portraying the interplay of two raw materials: oil and sugar. Replete with allusions to ephemerality, destruction and transformation, ... Read More
Until March 11, 2012, La Criée will be presenting the French premiere of the Salt Lake series by Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov. Dating from 1986, this series of 50 photographs takes us back to Soviet-era Ukraine, on the edge of ruin, to a place where life’s simple pleasures were played out against the backdrop of a lake assailed by industrial pollution on every side. Boris Mikhailov, “Salt Lake” series, 1986. C-print, 60 x 84 cm, edition of 7. © Courtesy Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, ... Read More
The Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros presents Christian Jankowski. Crying for the March of Humanity an exhibition on view 8 February–8 April 2012. With the work of Christian Jankowski, Crying for the March of Humanity presents an innovative and complex analysis of the relationship between art and politics, a discourse that the SAPS has been dedicated to for the last three years. Jankowski addresses the power of Televisa—one of the largest Spanish-language broadcast companies—through the deconstruction of the ... Read More
The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos announces an open-ended programme of events and short-term exhibitions related to the recent and ongoing Occupy Nigeria movement. Jelili Atiku, “Nigerian Fetish,” 2011. Performance, Ejigbo, Lagos. Photo: Tajudeen Busari. On 1 January 2012, the Federal Government of Nigeria eliminated government subsidies intended to keep petrol prices at an affordable rate—especially for many of the country’s disadvantaged citizens, who regarded such subsidies as their only ... Read More
Clinton, NJ – Opening Sunday, February 5, 2012 at the Hunterdon Art Museum is an exhibition of work by four artists: Astrid Bowlby, Ben Butler, Sebastian Rug, and Christopher Skura. The show, titled Fragmented, explores how all four of the artists presented create art work that is the result of extremely labor intensive processes. The end result of the effort is art that is solid, yet fragile; if one piece or thread was moved or removed, the entire structure would collapse. The public is invited to an ... Read More
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents Pasadena to Santa Barbara. A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969 an exhibition on view February 11 – May 6, 2012. William Dole, Tower of Babel, 1962. Watercolor and collage on board. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Gift of Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson, Los Angeles. This exhibition focuses on the legacy of two of Southern California’s leading venues for contemporary art since the 1940s: the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Pasadena Art Museum ... Read More
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art presents Julie Heffernan. Infinite Work in Progress an exhibition on view February 16 through May 13, 2012. Julie Heffernan Burial Mound, 2010, Oklahoma City Museum of Art Julie Heffernan: Infinite Work in Progress, the 5th installment of the NEW FRONTIERS Series for Contemporary Art, will present twenty incredibly beautiful and complex paintings by artist Julie Heffernan, February 16 through May 13, 2012. Her biography notes that akin to Magical Realism, Heffernan’s lush ... Read More
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts announces Tornadoes an exhibition on view March 10 to June 3, 2012 David Maxim, Untitled, April 2006; pastel, charcoal, graphite & water wash on laid paper In commemoration of the victims of the devastating storms that ravaged Alabama and the South on April 27, 2010, the MMFA will install a small exhibition of art inspired by tornadoes, twisters, and windstorms. This group exhibition combines objects from the Museum’s permanent collection with loans of work by artists ... Read More
The Coral Springs Museum of Art hosts it’s 15th Anniversary Celebration on February 9, 2012 at 6:30pm to 9pm. For reservations call 954.340.5000. Since its opening in early 1997, the Coral Springs Museum of Art has focused on displaying innovative and ethnically diverse Florida artists and providing eclectic and challenging classes for both children and adults. In addition, we’ve hosted three “blockbuster” exhibitions with well-known artists such as Alexandra Nichita, Romero Britto, Wolf Kahn, ... Read More
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