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
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse presents Simon Starling. Trois cent cinquante kilogrammes par metre carre, a solo exhibition on view 24 May–26 August 2012.Simon Starling, Trois cent cinquante kilogrammes par mètre carré (Sketch), 2012. Collage and graphite on paper, 75 x 56 cm. © Simon Starling. Simon Starling creates a body of new works inspired by the history and architecture of the building, a former industrial site, which now houses the Contemporary Art Centre, the University of Upper ... Read More
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh announces Inventing the Modern World Showcases Decorative Arts and Design Innovations from World’s Fairs, an exhibition on view from October 13, 2012. From their inception in 1851, the world’s fairs showcased, obsessed over, and enthralled the visiting public with the cutting edge of industry, production, new materials, and methods, for creating everything from tools to jewelry, furniture to textiles. In doing so, artists and manufacturers used ... Read More
The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition of drawings and related material, featuring work by masters such as Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Carpaccio that brings to life the dynamic artistic and cultural milieu of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice. On view May 18 through September 23, 2012, the show also includes books and maps that reveal Venice’s role at the forefront of luxury book production and innovative printing. Paolo Veronese (1528–1588)Studies for The ... Read More
The California Science Center is hosting it’s 14th Annual Discovery Ball on May 18. The evening will showcase the west coast premiere of Cleopatra: The Exhibition. The Discovery Ball will feature a fabulous cocktail reception, elegant dinner feast with entertainment and live auction, and dancing and drinks in a night club worth staying for—all set amidst the allure and the intrigue of the world of Cleopatra. The Science Center’s annual black-tie gala has steadily gained ... Read More
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will join museums all over the world in celebrating Art Museum Day Friday, May 18. The museum will honor the occasion from 1 to 2 p.m. with a live performance by Jabari Exum of Farafina Kan and a meet and greet with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the museum. “I visit my art museum because ….” is the tagline for this year’s Art Museum Day and attendees will be invited to share their responses to the tagline via Twitter and on forms ... Read More
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has launched a new mobile-ready website, designweeknyc.org, highlighting design-related events around the city during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, May 19–22. Design Week NYC is a grassroots initiative convened to celebrate design at ICFF and the satellite fairs and events being held around the city, including American Design Club’s exhibition at Heller Gallery, Model Citizen, Noho Design District and WantedDesign. The site ... Read More
The Ashmolean Museum has opened The English Prize. The Capture Of The Westmorland, An Episode Of The Grand Tour, on view 17 May – 27 August 2012.Robert Dodd, The capture of the Amazone by HMS Santa Margarita, 29 July 1782. Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 120 cm© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich presented by Eric Miller through The Art Fund. The story of the Westmorland, an armed merchant ship sailing from Livorno to London in January 1779, is one of colourful 18th-century personalities and ... Read More
Taipei Museum and the Herzliya Museum, Israel present Boundaries on the Move. A Cross-Cultural Dialogue. The exhibition will run from 18 May to 11 August 2012 at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.Chen Chieh-Jen, Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprises, Inc. (still), 2010. Three channel video installation. Courtesy of the artist. The most obvious contextual concept of the boundary is linked to that of the nation-state. Often associated with the territory or border of a country, ... Read More
The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents Rita McBride. Public Tender, an exhibition on view 18 May–24 September 2012. Alexander Hick, Day After Day (film still), 2011. Courtesy the artist Educated in the United States but based in Germany, Rita McBride is a professor at the prestigious Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her work explores the production of public space and the reception of culture through sculptures that recreate familiar elements from our immediate environment. ... Read More
Site-specific works by Carola Bonfili, Graham Hudson, Luigi Presicce, and Ishmael Randall Weeks will be on show from 24 May to 22 July 2012. Along with new works, the studios will be open to the public to highlight the processes underlying the specific methods used by each artist. Open studios marks the end of the first cycle of the Artists in Residence program established in January 2012 Artists in Residence, at the core of MACRO’s new activities, focuses on national and international ... Read More
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