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
The Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion presents Fifty Years. Contemporary American Glass from Illinois Collections an exhibition on view through April 29, 2012. Marvin Lipofsky SF Tacoma Group #3, 2006–07 Blown glass Courtesy of Donna and Barry Rice Photo: Chris Brown © Marvin Lipofsky Fifty Years: Contemporary American Glass from Illinois Collections is designed as a sampling tour through the world of American contemporary glass art, showing the wide diversity of technique and vocabulary used by ... Read More
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion presents School of Art + Design Master of Fine Arts an exhibition on view April 15 through 29, 2012. This annual exhibition represents the culmination of intense artistic development for graduate students in studio art and design. Marking a meaningful step further into the art world, the exhibition highlights and celebrates the artists’ exceptional creativity, curiosity, and inventiveness. – www.kam.illinois.edu ... Read More
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University presents The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries a set of four recently restored 15th-century tapestries, known as the Pastrana tapestries, on view February 5 through May 13 2012. Probably produced under the direction of Passchier Grenier, tapestry merchant, Tournai (Belgium), detail, 1470s, Landing at Asilah (detail), 1475-1500, wool and silk, Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara and Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Pastrana, Spain. © ... Read More
The National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks, is proud to award a grant to Dinosaur National Monument. The funds will launch a program to develop long-term monitoring and preservation plan for 150 million-year-old dinosaur fossil quarry. The grant is part of the National Park Foundation’s Impact Grant program that gives parks critical financial support needed to transform innovative, yet underfunded ideas, into successful in-park programs and initiatives. NPS ... Read More
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts presents Georges Rouault: Cirque de l’Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star) an exhibition on view February 3 – May 13, 2012. Georges Rouault, La petite Ecuyere, 1935, color etching and aqua, courtesy of the Syracuse University Art Collection. On view in Georges Rouault: Circus of the Shooting Star. Artist Georges Roualt was fascinated by the circus, a world where superficial brightness was underscored by overwhelming sadness. The images in his portfolio of etchings, ... Read More
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden presents Gerhard Richter. Atlas an exhibition from the Gerhard Richter Archive of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in cooperation with the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, München. On view February 4 – April 22, 2012. Gerhard Richter. Atlas Plate 442 copyright Gerhard Richter 2012 Gerhard Richter’s ATLAS merits a special place within his oeuvre as a whole. It not only forms the basis of his entire work as a painter but is also an autonomous artwork in its own right. ... Read More
Secession presents Michael Snow Recent Works on view February 23–April 15, 2012. Michael Snow. Recent Works is the first solo show presenting the work of the influential Canadian artist Michael Snow in Austria. The exhibition features selected photographs and film installations from the past ten years that exemplify the spectrum of his art. An experimental filmmaker, painter, sculptor, photographer, and professional jazz musician, Snow has worked in a wide range of media for more than fifty years. His art is ... Read More
Vicksburg National Military Park will celebrate the observance of National Black History Month with a series of special programs and exhibits during the month of February. African-American Monument sculpted by Kim Sessums, NPS PHOTO Beginning February 4th and running through March 3rd, the park will host an exhibition of the artwork of Kim Sessums at the park visitor center. Entitled “Civil War Tribute,” Sessums’ sculptures and paintings pay homage to the African-American soldiers who served in ... Read More
The Lewis Glucksman Gallery presents Game On / Re-Newing Media Art. A touring initiative. Curated by Chris Clarke. Cao Fei, “Live in RMB City,” 2009, video. Courtesy of Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing Game On / Re-Newing Media Art is a touring screening programme of artist’s film and video works that utilise the imagery and media of desktop interfaces, video games and online software. Curated by Chris Clarke (Curator of Education and Collections, Lewis Glucksman Gallery). Game On explores the ways in ... Read More
Little Constellation presents The Land seen from the Sea an exhibition by the network Little Constellation Contemporary Art in the geo-cultural micro areas and small States of Europe. On view 4 February–4 May 2012. Little Constellation is a project and an international network for contemporary art, whose research is devoted to the symbolic sensibility of the geographical dimension. It grew out of a survey devoted to the small states and geo-cultural micro-areas of Europe, and is being extended more broadly to ... Read More
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