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 Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents Scenery, Story, Spirit: American Painting and Sculpture an exhibition opening on February 4, 2012. Childe Hassam, The Manhattan Club, n.d. (ca. 1891). Oil on canvas. SBMA, Gift of Mrs. Sterling Morton to the Preston Morton Collection. Between the 1830s and the end of the First World War, American art came into its own. From the majestic Hudson River School paintings of Thomas Cole, John Kensett, and Albert Bierstadt to the gritty urban realism of Robert Henri and John ... Read More
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts presentsBirds of the Enlightenment, Predecessors and Rivals of J.J. Audubon an exhibition on view March 17 to June 10, 2012. Red Tailed Hawk; John and Thomas Doughty The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with illustrations, Philadelphia. On voyages of discovery from the 17th to the 19th centuries explorers sought out new species of animals and collected specimens or drawings that would be brought home to eager colleagues ready to carefully delineate new ... Read More
The Museum of Aviation Foundation will hold the Seventh Annual Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott, Jr. Memorial Golf Scramble April 13, 2012 at Healy Point Country Club in Macon, Georgia. February 27 will mark six years since the famed World War II flying ace from Macon Georgia passed away less than two months before his 98th birthday. “Scott’s memory lives on in Middle Georgia,” said Pat Bartness, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Foundation. “This tournament honors Macon’s true hometown hero whose ... Read More
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts hostsArt Auction 2012. A collection of more than 500 paintings, etchings, bronze, home décor, jewelry and silver have been selected from galleries including Santa Fe, New York, Charleston, Hilton Head and Atlanta. Milt Kobayashi, Sharp Eyes (detail), 2010, oil on linen All auction items will be on view beginning Saturday, February 4. See the exhibition and bid on your favorites at no cost in the weeks leading up to the auction. The Silent Auction will be held Thursday, ... Read More
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents Andrea Zittel. Lay of My Land an exhibition on view 10 February 2012 – 20 May 2012. Andrea Zittel A-Z Wagon Station, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Andrea Zittel is most closely associated with the remarkable utopian structures she calls ‘Wagon Stations’ which explore what humans need for survival in different ways. Zittel’s projects are deeply rooted in her own daily life and delve into architecture, painting, photography, design, textiles, needlework ... Read More
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents the first major solo show by British video-maker Elizabeth Price. The exhibition comprises of three works: Choir 2011, shown for the first time in its entirety, User Group Disco 2009 and the new West Hinder 2012. Price creates dense and immersive video installations that bring together image, text and music in apocalyptic, phantasmagorical narratives. She uses existing bodies of historical material to generate fantasy stories, drawing upon archives of photography, film ... Read More
The High Museum of Art in partnership with the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts of Montgomery, Alabama, has organized “Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.” Bill Traylor, untitled, ca. 1939–1942, Poster paint, pencil, and colored pencil on cardboard. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from Mrs. Lindsey Hopkins, Jr., Edith G. and Philip A. Rhodes, and the Members Guild, 1982.97 This exhibition will feature some of the best ... Read More
The Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins Georgia announced the release of its first iPhone app, available immediately for free in the Apple App Store. The app enables users to listen to audio information for 20 of the museum’s more than 90 aircraft exhibits, and to explore additional information using Wikipedia and Youtube links. “We wanted an app that could provide an exciting and informative audio experience for our visitors here at the museum as well as wet the appetites of iPhone users who may not ... Read More
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts presents Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color an exhibition on view March 17 to June 10, 2012. Lois Mailou Jones, Mere du Senegal, acrylic, 1985 This exhibition illuminates the life and work of Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1994), an African-American artist, illustrator, and educator who produced a substantial oeuvre of colorful paintings while teaching art at Howard University for 47 years. This exhibition of 70 works surveys the vast sweep of Jones’s seventy-five ... Read More
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts announces Dale Nichols. Transcending Regionalism an exhibition on view March 17 to June 10, 2012 Dale Nichols, While the Sun Shines, 1936; oil on canvas. Courtesy Dayton Art Institute. Artist Dale Nichols was born in David City, Nebraska on July 13, 1904. He studied at Chicago’s Academy of Fine Arts, and remained in Chicago for approximately fifteen years. Nichols, succeeding Iowa artist Grant Wood, was art editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica from 1942 to 1948, and in ... Read More
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