The Lost City Museum features the work of artists Jo Tame and Betty Halverson. A stunning pairing of decorative gourds and mixed media, southwestern themed paintings will be available for purchase. The exhibit will run [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
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John W. Smith has been appointed director of the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, effective fall 2011. Smith comes to the Museum with a distinguished background in visual arts institutions. He currently [Read More]
The Irvine Museum presents California Rhapsody featuring early artists of the Bohemian Club on view through November 3, 2011. In 1872, a number of San Francisco painters, writers, musicians and actors joined together as a [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will mark the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on America with a display of objects on view Sept. 3 to Sept. 11 from 11 a.m. to [Read More]
Ther New Mexico Museum of Art presents Gustave Baumann Painter, Printmaker, and Puppeteer an exhibition that includes works that represent the diversity of artistic production from one of New Mexico’s most beloved artist residents. On [Read More]
Museum Morsbroich. Leverkusen presents Incisions in Space: Sculptural Collages, with works by Björn Braun, Thorsten Brinkmann, Tom Burr, Max Frisinger, Thomas Grünfeld, Rachel Harrison & Scott Lyall and Jessica Stockholder. On view 19 June–21 August [Read More]
Photographer Steve McCurry chose NYC and India for his historic journey and photographs When Kodak announced in 2009 it would no longer produce Kodachrome film, company officials announced two ways the famed film would be [Read More]
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film announces the appointment of Dr. Paolo Cherchi Usai to the position of senior curator of motion pictures, a title he held from 1994 to 2004. He [Read More]
The Getty Museum Celebrates 150th Anniversary of Italian Unification by Showcasing Italian Masterpieces In Its Permanent Collection, on view through January 8, 2012. Highlighting Italy’s rich cultural heritage, the J. Paul Getty Museum is celebrating [Read More]
Nicknamed La Mélinite after a powerful form of explosive, the dancer Jane Avril (1868-1943) was one of the stars of the Moulin Rouge in the 1890s. Known for her alluring style and exotic persona, her [Read More]
El Museo del Barrio presents El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011, its sixth biennial of the most innovative, cutting-edge art created by Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists currently working in the greater New [Read More]
With the invention of the automobile 125 years ago, one of the most coveted desires of the 19th century was fulfilled – unlimited individual mobility From the 18 June 2011 to 8 January 2012, the [Read More]
Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski draws together 32 significant works from public and private collections and is the first overview of the artist’s paintings since his death in 2007. On view through August 28 [Read More]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence on view 23 June–25 September 2011. Man has always been fascinated with secret societies and their clandestine rites, their covert [Read More]
Belgian Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) is one of the most important and revered artists of the 20th century. Tate Liverpool is to present the most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK of the Belgian [Read More]
Tate Liverpool will present a René Magritte Summer School, against the backdrop of it’s exhibition René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle. Summer School explores the artistic practice of both Magritte and the Surrealists, focussing on popular [Read More]
Edwin Davies OBE has donated one of the world’s finest collections of Japanese cloisonné enamels to the V&A. Thanks to his significant gift, the V&A is now able to show the most wide-ranging selection of [Read More]
Landscape Reunited: Huang Gongwang and “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” is a major special exhibitionat the National Palace Museum from June 2 to September 5 of this year in Galleries 210 and 212 of its [Read More]