The 5th annual St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance has been set for September 25 on the grounds of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. From left: CBMM President Langley Shook and St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance Chairman David North stand beside a 1929 Duesenberg Model J along Navy Point at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime […]
The Augusta Museum of History is to present the stories of the regions extraordinary individuals with the opening of the Local Legends exhibition on October 28, 2011. The show is divided into areas representing Entertainers, Athletes, Authors, and many, many Notables. The displays will be a celebration of the talented musicians, singers, authors, actors, athletes, […]
Catharina Manchanda, former Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, will join the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) as the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, announced Charlie Wright, Chairman of SAM’s Board of Trustees. Manchanda will begin her tenure at SAM on August 17, […]
Visual artists working in Washington, Oregon or Idaho are invited to apply for the Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM’s) annual Betty Bowen Award. Applications are available now at www.callforentry.org, and the deadline for submissions is Monday, August 1, 2011. HOW TO APPLY The application is available now, at www.callforentry.org. There is a $10 application fee. Entries […]
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents a major Lyonel Feininger exhibition, on view JUNE 30–OCTOBER 16, 2011. Born and raised in New York, Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) moved at the age of sixteen to Germany, where he became one of the leading practitioners of German Expressionism and the Bauhaus. In the late 1930s, when the […]
Asia Society Museum presents an exhibition of 227 photographs taken by Ai Weiwei, capturing the history, culture, and atmosphere of 1980s New York from his unique perspective. The exhibition, on view June 29 through August 14, 2011, marks the first time Ai Weiwei’s New York Photographs series is being shown outside of China. Before Ai […]
Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents, a new installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) on view through August 28, 2011, revisits the post-World War II art movement to include artists historically not associated with Abstract Expressionism. When in 1946 New Yorker critic Robert Coates identified an expressive, gestural and subjective approach towards […]
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents Urbanism: Reimagining the Lived Environment, contemporary works by Philadelphia artists Arden Bendler Browning, the Dufala Brothers, Ben Peterson, and Amy Walsh, on view July 2 – September 4, 2011. A cradle for American art for over two centuries, Philadelphia is a city where hundreds of artists […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Mother India an exhibition featuring Depictions of the Goddess in Indian Painting on view June 29 – November 27, 2011. Devi, the Indian goddess, is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom given expression in all of India’s ancient religions. From the beginnings of figurative representation in early India, […]
The Design Museum in London is hosting a Summer Party July 6 at 6 – 10pm. The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, and architecture to industrial design. It is working to place design at the centre of contemporary culture. The Design Museum’s […]
Fondazione Querini Stampalia Onlus presents Marisa Merz: non corrisponde eppur fiorisce It doesn’t match yet it flourishes an exhibition on view 1 June–18 September 2011. One of the most significant and interesting artists of the past forty years and indisputably a protagonist of the Italian art scene since the end of the 1960s when she […]
The Trustees of the Design Museum announced a major gift by the Conran Foundation, endowed by Sir Terence Conran towards the museum’s new development project. This will help to create the world’s leading museum of contemporary design and architecture in London. Sir Terence Conran’s donation consists of a cash gift of £7.5m and the value […]
