Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Fifth Avenue Renovation Plans

February 8, 2012 – 8:17 am |

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

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Musee d’art contemporain de Lyon announces Robert Combas. Greatest Hits

February 7, 2012 – 8:20 am |

Musee d’art contemporain de Lyon presents Robert Combas. Greatest Hits an exhibition on view 24 February–15 July 2012. Opening: Thursday, 23 February 2012. Robert Combas, “Couple psychopatex,” 1995. Dental mask, phallus tip, vagina snake, opera soldier-saint. Keen eye, ready to bite or kiss himself. Acrylic on canvas, 135 x 135 cm. Collection Sophie Reynaud, Paris © Adagp, Paris, 2012 The first major retrospective of the work of Robert Combas, Greatest Hits brings together over 300 oeuvres chosen ... Read More

Center for Creative Photography Acquires the Jack Welpott Archive

February 7, 2012 – 8:19 am |

The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona Libraries announced that it has acquired the photographic archive of internationally renowned artist Jack Welpott. “We are thrilled that the Jack Welpott Legacy Trust has chosen the Center for Creative Photography as the permanent home for the Welpott archive,” comments Katharine Martinez, the Center’s director. “Welpott was an accomplished photographer and a key member of the rich community of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area during ... Read More

Frick Collection opens Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting

February 7, 2012 – 8:18 am |

The Frick Collection presents Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting, an exhibition on view February 7 through May 13, 2012, offering the first comprehensive study of the artist’s engagement with the full-length format. Its use was associated with the official Paris Salon from the mid-1870s to mid- 1880s, the decade that saw the emergence of a fully fledged Impressionist aesthetic. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), La Promenade, 1875–76. Oil on canvas, 67 x 42 5/8 inches. The Frick Collection, ... Read More

Make a Difference at the UMFA. Become a Museum Docent

February 7, 2012 – 8:17 am |

Attention all museum lovers, cultural enthusiasts, history buffs and devoted art advocates: Are you looking for a way to serve and inspire others in your community? The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is looking for passionate volunteers to serve as weekend docents! The UMFA depends on a dedicated docent team each year to fulfill its mission and guide thousands of visitors through its halls. Docents will have the opportunity to delve deep into art history and the UMFA’s exhibitions, gain valuable communication ... Read More

Ballroom Marfa announce Data Deluge

February 7, 2012 – 8:15 am |

Ballroom Marfa present Data Deluge an exhibition on view March 2–July 8, 2012. The ongoing dialogue between the digital and physical worlds provides the backdrop for Data Deluge, an exhibition that presents a selection of sculpture, furniture, painting, photography, video, sound and works on paper by artists who shape Web-based and software-generated data into art. The exhibition, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Reynard Loki, takes its name from the title of a 2010 special report published by The Economist ... Read More

Bonniers Konsthall to host Before and After Cinema conference

February 7, 2012 – 8:09 am |

Bonniers Konsthall presents Before and After Cinema an international conference in Stockholm on 9–10 March, 2012. Before and After Cinema is an international conference on the status of the moving image in contemporary art, in the perspective of the shift from analogue to digital media, and what this means to distribution, perception, archiving and the making of art and film. The conference is a part of a larger collaboration between Bonniers Konsthall and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The conference is ... Read More

Bonniers Konsthall announce A Trip to the Moon exhibition

February 7, 2012 – 8:05 am |

Bonniers Konsthall present A Trip to the Moon an exhibition on view 8 February–8 April 2012. Ming Wong, “Persona Performa,” 2011, production image. A Performa Commission, co-produced by Vitamin Creative Space and Bonniers Konsthall. Rosa Barba, Marco Brambilla, Dara Birnbaum, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Gordon, Georges Méliès, Alex Reynolds , Lindsay Seers, Lillian Schwartz, Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch, Dziga Vertov, Ming Wong A Trip to the Moon is an exhibition on contemporary art’s relationship ... Read More

Walter Anderson Museum of Art Announce Upcoming Exhibitions for 2012

February 7, 2012 – 1:34 am |

Rolland Golden: River and Reverie May 1 – August 15, 2012 Mr. Golden was awarded the Ms. Arts and letters award in 2011 for his beautiful portrayal in oil paintings of the waterways of the South. The Wooten-Rosenberg Collection September 1- December 31, 2012 This amazing collection of more than 200 artworks including Shearwater Pottery, paintings and watercolors by all three Anderson brothers started as a whim when the owner first worked at Shearwater Pottery in the 1970′s while still in high ... Read More

Walter Anderson Museum of Art presents One World, Two Artists. John Alexander & Walter Anderson

February 6, 2012 – 10:24 am |

The Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, presents One World, Two Artists. John Alexander & Walter Anderson, an exhibition on view now through April 30, 2012. The exhibition is organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans in collaboration with WAMA and the family of Walter Anderson. “The work of southern artists is often infused with a deep sense of place and time. Whether inspired by the small town of the artist’s birth; the land; the water – be it river, lake, ... Read More

National Archives Exhibition Gallery Shows Magna Carta

February 6, 2012 – 10:11 am |

Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero and co-founder and managing director of The Carlyle Group David M. Rubenstein have unveiled the newly restored and encased 1297 Magna Carta, which is on loan to the American people by Mr. Rubenstein. The National Archives partnered with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the exacting design and fabrication of the encasement. At the unveiling, National Archives deputy director of the conservation laboratory Kitty Nicholson and NIST design ... Read More