The Museum of Modern Art has acquired a major group of works from the collection of exhibition organizer, publisher, and dealer Seth Siegelaub, a key supporter of artists working in dematerialized art practices in the [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
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The Philbrook Museum of Art presents Rauschenberg at Gemini an exhibition of works by Robert Rauschenberg on view JUNE 12 – SEPTEMBER 11, 2011. For more than three decades Robert Rauschenberg created works at Gemini [Read More]
From June 14, 2011, to January 8, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections. The exhibition investigates major trends in U.S. and European art in a singular [Read More]
The Cantor Arts Center has deaccessioned two 19th-century American paintings from its collection: Charles Christian Nahl’s Saturday Night in the Mines, 1856, and Crossing the Plains,1856. Both works are oil on canvas. Ownership of the [Read More]
The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) presents Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas an exhibition on view September 4, 2011. The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) hosts the first museum exhibition [Read More]
The de Young Museum presents an exhibition of more than 100 masterpieces by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) from the permanent collection of Paris’s world-renowned Musée National Picasso. The once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, made possible only because [Read More]
The aerospace industry’s impact on Southern California in the 20th century—and vice versa—will be explored in a new exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens this fall. “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace [Read More]
JULY Family Activity Bank of America Weekend Family Workshop Saturdays and Sundays July 2, 3, 9, 10, 23, 24, 30, 31; 11:00 a.m.and 1:00 p.m. “Spy in the Sky” Can you keep a secret? You [Read More]
A colossal marble bust of George Washington by French artist Pierre-Jean David, called David d’Angers (1788–1856), in the collection of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is on view after undergoing conservation analysis [Read More]
CAPC Musée d’art contemporain presents DYSTOPIA. A show written by Mark von Schlegell & curated by Alexis Vaillant on view through 28 August 2011. Amid global crisis, contemporary art finds itself confronted by its own [Read More]
Exhibition Explores Fascination with Sun, Clouds, Moon and Stars Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos, open June 15–November 13, features 39 photographs from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection that explore, among other out-of-this-world [Read More]
The Schneider Museum of Art presents Views from the Inner Eye. Opening with a public reception on Thursday, June 16, 5-7pm, comprising of three one-person exhibitions including, “Morris Graves: From the collection of the Vellutini [Read More]
The National Quilt Museum presents The Nature of Design: Quilts by Cynthia Morgan and Velda Newman. On Exhibit June 8 to September 5. How do quiltmakers respond to nature? How do they portray nature in [Read More]
The William Benton Museum of Art presents The Colored Woodcut in 19th-Century Japan: Edo and Osaka, on view now through August 7, 2011. The colored woodcut was ubiquitous in 19th-century Japan, and for Europeans a [Read More]
The Hood Museum of Art presents Embracing Elegance: American Art from the Huber Family Collection on view June 11 through September 4, 2011. Jane Peterson, The Dry Dock, c. 1915, opaque watercolor and charcoal on [Read More]
The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art presents 15 Colorado Artists – Breaking With Tradition, on view through July 31, 2011. There are 25 lenders of 57 works in this exhibition, to whom we [Read More]
Shelburne Museum Senior Curator Jean Burks announced the overall winners in the museum’s fashion design contest. Four students from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City took top honors for their fashions, [Read More]
The Fleming Collection presents it’s Scottish Summer Exhibition and Sale, 10 June – 3 September 2011. The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation has invited a select group of established and emerging Scottish artists to submit paintings, prints [Read More]