Visitors to the Kimbell Art Museum exhibition Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912, on view now through August 21, 2011, will be able to use a specially created iPad application to delve more deeply into Cubism. “Advances in digital imaging and the convenience of an iPad provide new ways to look at and understand […]
Behind The Seams, featuring three new galleries, is the new star attraction at Armley Mills Museum, once the site of the largest woollen mill in the world. The project, led by not-for-profit company Leeds Fashion Works, celebrates the significance – both past and present – of the region’s textile and fashion industry. Even today, nearly […]
Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan, a traveling exhibition organized by the Textile Museum of Canada, makes its United States debut at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. On view now through through July 31, 2011. Afghan rug weavers, instead of using their traditional tribal designs, depict on their rugs the world that they see. Modern warfare […]
Fotomuseum Winterthur presents Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography an exhibition on view 28.05.2011 – 14.08.2011. Modernism made photography what it is. It gave it self-confidence and made it trust itself. Self-confidence because photography in the 1920s recognized and developed its own possibilities and qualities: a probing vision of the world, an investigation of the visible […]
A superb collection of early tobacciana will be smoking its way across the auction block on June 18 as Morphy’s presents a 900-lot Antique Advertising sale featuring the specialty collection of the Gotham Cigar Museum of Tampa, Florida. “It’s amazing how many different types of cigar-related items are sought after by collectors. This premier collection […]
The Heard Museum is now part of the Blue Star Museum Initiative! The program offers free admission to the Heard for all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 30, through Labor Day, September 5, 2011. The free admission program is available to any bearer of a Geneva Convention common access […]
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp presents Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds on view through 17 July 2011. After much initial uncertainty, the modified version of Ai Weiwei’s installation “Sunflower Seeds”—featuring a different type of seed to that of the installation at Tate Modern—has arrived in good time at the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp and the exhibition can take place […]
The Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Arts has been given another significant gift with the donation of the Santa Fe Collection of Navajo Rugs from Dr. Charles and Linda Rimmer. The 77 Navajo textiles, created in the late 20th century, represent many styles handwoven by some of the most accomplished Navajo weavers. The collection […]
Artpace, Blaffer Art Museum and Flo Art Fund present At the Back of the North Wind, an exhibition of new works by Anton Ginzburg, an official collateral event of the 54th International Art Exhibition at la Biennale di Venezia, which will be on display at the Palazzo Bollani from June 1 to November 27, 2011. […]
