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
Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain presents Wannes Goetschalckx: Toothpick, on view 8 January 2012. Wannes Goetschalckx © Andres Lejona. The starting point for Wannes Goetschalckx’s (*1978, lives and works in Belgium) project was an immense poplar installed in the “Aquarium” at Casino Luxembourg, which was to be carved with his own hands into one toothpick. Since the beginning of his artist’s residency in September 2011, he has been harnessed to this colossal ... Read More
Iniva at Rivington Place presents Abdoulaye Konate Window Commission 2011 on 7 December 2011–3 January 2012. Abdoulaye Konaté, “Le dos à l’Âme (Soul Denial),” 2008. Textile, © the artist. Photo: Jeff Morgan. Artist Abdoulaye Konaté speaks to the street in Iniva’s (Institute of International Visual Arts) fifth annual window commission. He reflects on the relationship in Africa between power and religion—the position of Christianity and Islam within political and cultural life. ... Read More
Dr. Patrick Wallace, Director, National Museum of Ireland, has welcomed the achievement of over 1 million visitors so far this year. This represents an increase of 10% on the total visitor numbers to the Museum in 2010. This is in keeping with the increase in travel figures which show an increase of 10% of visitors to Ireland in the first nine months of 2011. Commenting on the increase, Dr. Wallace said “We are delighted to achieve over 1 million visitors before the year end. There are two key reasons ... Read More
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presents New Topographics an exhibition on view through 01.08.2012. In 1975 the George Eastman House, New York, organized an exhibition entitled New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, which signalled a radical change in the genre. Works by nine photographers, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wesse, Jr., defined a new concept for landscapes, clearly differentiated from the ... Read More
The National Museums of Ireland have a wealth of wonderful exhibitions and events happening across three sites in Dublin and its site in Castelbar, Co Mayo over the festive period that would make for a fun day out for all the family. The three sites in Dublin are: Decorative Arts & History at Collins Barracks, D7 Archaeology at Kildare Street, D2 and Natural History at Merrion Street, D2. In Castelbar why not visit Country Life, Turlough Park. Just some of the events taking place include: Christmas Open Day ... Read More
The National Museum of Ireland presents Reconstructed Rooms. Four Centuries of Furnishings. Installation view of Reconstructed Rooms: Four Centuries of Furnishings Exhibition. 20th Century. ©National Museum of Ireland. This new exhibition displays some of the National Museum of Ireland’s furniture collection in a series of room settings. There is a 17th century bedroom with a rare Flemish stand-bed, oak chests and panelling, a refined Georgian dining room and the exuberant style of a 19th century music ... Read More
Feather Cuts and Flares is a new display at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool . featuring nine original outfits from this turbulent period when extravagant modes blossomed despite social and political upheaval. Platform heels, flared trousers, flowery finery, feather cut hairstyles and hot pants took people’s minds off economic troubles, strikes, power cuts and terrorism. Pop icons such as David Bowie, Marc Bolan and Abba burst on the scene to mask the uncertainties of the era in a storm of feathery ... Read More
The Walker Art Gallery and Museum of Liverpool Presents Lily Savage’s Costumes an exhibition on view through 19 February 2012. Image by Alistair Muir Eleven sensational costumes worn by actor Paul O’Grady’s alter ego Lily Savage are being displayed for the first time. Savage Style: Costumes from Lily’s Wardrobe 4 November 2011 to 19 February 2012 features seven outfits at the Walker Art Gallery and four at the Museum of Liverpool. Lily Savage, a single mother-of-two notorious for her acid tongue ... Read More
The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey presents Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art an exhibition on view through January 7, 2012, that traces the history and evolution of the ancient art of coiled basketry in Africa and America. The exhibit, featuring baskets from the low country of South Carolina and Georgia as well as from diverse regions of Africa, traces the story of coiled basketry from the domestication of rice in Africa, through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the ... Read More
The Palm Springs Air Museum presents The Battle of Midway: A Historical Retrospective on Dec. 17. Midway, Palm Springs Air Museum Widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign, the battle of Midway has been called, “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare”. Historian Richard Grosser brings those auspicious days of WWII to life with his presentation of, “The Battle of Midway: A Historical Retrospective”. The Palm Springs Air Museum, is a ... Read More
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