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
Florida Atlantic University present Surfing Florida: A Photographic History A Traveling Exhibition and Book Project on view in the Schmidt Center Gallery March 17 – May 12, 2012. Opening Reception: March 16, 2012. Surfing Florida is an exhibition and book project that ... Read More
Florida Atlantic University presents “Figured Spaces: Selections from the John Morrissey Collection”, on view through January 3, 2012. Hillary Harkness, Mother Lode An exhibition featuring figurative paintings, drawings and photographs by several internationally recognized artists including Hilary Harkness, Natalie Frank, Anj Smith, Mickalene Thomas and others. The selected artists employ human figuration in a wide variety of styles and sensibilities to present intriguing factual and imagined narratives ... Read More
The Ukrainian Museum presents Borys Kosarev. Modernist Kharkiv 1915-1931 on view December 4 through May 2, 2012. Borys Kosarev (1897-1994), also known as Boris Kosariev, was a contemporary of prominent Kharkiv, Ukraine artists David Burliuk (1882-1967), Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953), and Ilya Repin (1844-1930), as well as other celebrated Ukrainian artists such as Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) and Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964). A master graphic artist, painter, designer, photographer, and book illustrator, ... Read More
The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design presents Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro: Are We There Yet, on view December 3, 2011–March 11, 2012. ARE WE THERE YET? (DETAIL) 2011. GALLERY INSTALLATION AT THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON D.C. 97 BOXES OF 3L BLACK BOX CHARDONNAY, 360 BOYARDEE BEEF RAVIOLI 15 OZ. TINS, 83 CASES OF BUD LIGHT, 624 CANS OF CARNATION EVAPORATED MILK, 43 CHEERIOS TWIN PACK 37 OZ., 95 CASES OF COCA COLA, 40 KRAFT VELVEETA LOAVES (2 X 32 OUNCE LOAVES PER PACKAGE), 49 ... Read More
The Power Plant announces it’s Winter 2011–2012 Exhibitions, on view 10 December 2011–4 March 2012. Opening: 9 December, 8–11 PM. Stan Douglas Entertainment: Selections from Midcentury Studio Curated by Melanie O’Brian, Curator & Head of Programs Coming After Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Aleesa Cohene, Glen Fogel, Onya Hogan-Finlay, Christian Holstad, Danny Jauregui, Adam Garnet Jones, Jean-Paul Kelly, Tim Leyendekker, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, James Richards, Emily Roysdon, Dean ... Read More
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents Roundabout: Face to Face an exhibition on view through Sunday 01 January 2012 in the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Pavilion. Isaac Julien, Long ago: homage to the tuhoe – True south sereies, 2008, Tel Aviv Museum of Art The exhibition presents works mainly of artists from the Far East, Australia and New Zealand—among them Tony Albert, Shane Cotton, Gonkar Gyatso and Tavares Strachan—reflecting a global community often separated by national borders and estranged by ... Read More
Zak Kyes Working With… Can Altay, Charles Arsène-Henry, Shumon Basar, Richard Birkett, Andrew Blauvelt, Edward Bottoms, Wayne Daly, Jesko Fezer, Joseph Grigely, Nikolaus Hirsch, Maria Lind, Markus Miessen, Michel Müller, Radim Peško, Barbara Steiner Zak Kyes is the recipient of the 2010 INFORM Award, the annual accolade presented to graphic designers who develop a practice within the context of applied and contemporary art. The award consists of a prize of 5,000 euros as well as a one-person exhibition at ... Read More
Laura Jacobs has been chosen to serve as director of communications for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Jacobs will coordinate and oversee all the marketing, public relations and branding for the museum, as well as coordinating the museum’s social media and internal communications. She also will serve as editor of the museum’s membership magazine, which will be published three times a year. Jacobs came to Crystal Bridges from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she served in the ... Read More
The Corning Museum of Glass Presents Mt. Washington and Pairpoint: American Glass from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, an exhibition on view December 31, 2011 in the Changing Exhibitions Gallery. Mt. Washington and its successor, the Pairpoint Corporation, was one of America’s longest-running luxury glass companies (1837-1957), one that rivaled its better known contemporaries, Tiffany and Steuben. It constantly reinvented and re-invigorated its business through creativity in texture, decoration, ... Read More
The Walker Art Center has launched a redesigned website (walkerart.org). The new site, the first major redesign since 2005, is envisioned as a publishing platform that is unique among museums worldwide. The current redesign centers on a fundamental reimagining of the site as a provider of content about the Walker’s artistic programs and the larger context of contemporary art. The home page is overseen by a newly-hired web editor, award-winning journalist Paul Schmelzer, and showcases news stories, interviews, ... Read More
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