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
The Deutsche Hygiene Museum Human Adventure is a permanent exhibition revolving around a topic that is as obvious as it is demanding: the human being. There is no attempt to make its seven theme rooms encyclopedic. The aspects of human life they deal with are always anchored in the visitor’s daily experience: Deutsche Hygiene Museum Foto: Oliver Killig THE TRANSPARENT MAN Images of the human being in the modern sciences LIVING AND DYING From the first cell to a person’s death EATING AND ... Read More
The Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst presents Phyllida Barlow. BRINK, an exhibition on view from 13 May 2012–26 August 2012. British artist Phyllida Barlow, will receive the Aachen Art Prize 2012 on Sunday, 13 May for her innovative impulses in sculptural art. The laudation is held by Prof. Kasper König, Museum Ludwig Köln. The British Ambassador in Germany, S.E. Simon McDonald, will be present.Phyllida Barlow, BRINK (detail), 2012. Ludwig Forum Aachen. Since the 1960s, Phyllida ... Read More
The Israel Museum in Jerusalem presents Neustein. Drawing in the Margins, an exhibition on view May 18, 2012-October 27, 2012. The drawings of Joshua Neustein, a Polish-born Israeli artist who resides in New York, undermine conventional approaches to drawing, addressing its constituent materials and its process of formation, penetrating its surface by folding, scratching, and tearing it, and stretching its boundaries to the very edge. This exhibition of Neustein’s work, crossing over into ... Read More
The B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation presents Gianni Motti. swap, on view through 27 May 2012.Gianni Motti, swap, view of the exhibition, B.P.S.22, 2012. Photo by Denis Vancauteren For his new solo exhibition at B.P.S.22 (Charleroi, Belgium), Gianni Motti once again poses a radical gesture in the aim of making a strong point and direct critique at the preoccupying situation of the international financial crisis. A purchase statement of Italian state bonds and a black frame ... Read More
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art presents paperless, an exhibition on view April 27–September 16, 2012.Maskull Lasserre, “Harlequin,” 2007. Political ideology texts, steel. The medium of paper is a fragile vehicle—carrying the immense weight of written thought, but acutely vulnerable to the forces of travel, climate, and time. This endangered status accelerates in an increasingly digitized and environmentally conscious society, where the “paperless economy” is ... Read More
Martin E. Sullivan, director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, announced today that he will step down as director of the museum at the end of May due to health reasons. Sullivan will then take on the new role as senior scholar at the Smithsonian beginning June 4. The Smithsonian is forming a search committee, headed by Richard Kurin, the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, to select a new director for the National Portrait Gallery. Wendy Wick Reaves, Portrait ... Read More
Artangel presents Yael Bartana. And Europe Will Be Stunned, on view 22 May–1 July 2012. And Europe Will Be Stunned, Israeli artist Yael Bartana’s powerful and challenging trilogy of films made in Poland between 2007 and 2011, will be presented by Artangel this summer in a special exhibition at Hornsey Town Hall in London’s Crouch End. Yael Bartana, And Europe Will Be Stunned, 2007–2011. Zamach (Assassination) image by Marcin Kalinski, courtesy of Artangel The trilogy begins with Mary ... Read More
The Smithsonian Latino Center and the National Museum of African Art present a Haitian-Dominican Friendship Concert Wednesday, May 16, at 7 p.m. in the National Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium. The concert is free and the doors open at 6:30 p.m. This musical event will celebrate the cultural heritage of the two nations that share the island of Hispaniola and will feature two New York City-based bands interpreting local and other Afro-Caribbean musical genres. The Dominican ... Read More
The German Hygiene Museum Dresden opens Herlinde Koelbl. Clothes Make The Person, an exhibition on view 4 May to 29 July 2012. In her new project, the photographer Herlinde Koelbl has made portraits of seventy people in Germany and abroad. Each person appears twice: once in their professional or occupational costume, and once in their preferred leisure clothes. The juxtaposition sounds simple, but the exhibition reveals a surprising variety of results. Do both portraits show us the same ... Read More
Van Abbemuseum presents Rene Daniels. An Exhibition is Always Part of a Greater Whole, on view 12 May–23 September 2012. Opening: Saturday 12 May 2012, 3:30pm. René Daniëls (Eindhoven, 1950) is probably the most widely appreciated Dutch artist of his generation. His show at the Van Abbemuseum, René Daniëls – An Exhibition is Always Part of a Greater Whole, casts new light on his versatile oeuvre—one that still exerts a profound influence on younger artists. The presentation offers ... Read More
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