The Colby College Museum of Artpresents American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White an exhibition, on view uly 9, 2011 – October 2, 2011. In the 1930s, photographers pushed the genre of documentary photography to the forefront [Read More]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
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MoMA RESUMES PERFORMANCE PROGRAM WITH A NEW COMMISSION BY GRAND OPENINGS Starting July 20, the New York–based artist collective Grand Openings presents 13 days of performance in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles presents George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), on view July 10–October 2, 2011. George Herms, Xenophilia, 2011, collage, 22 x 28 in., courtesy of the artist, © [Read More]
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) presents BLOCKBUSTER: Cinema for Exhibitions, on view through September 25, 2011. The exhibition Blockbuster: Cinema for Exhibitions investigates how a number of significant contemporary artists working with [Read More]
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents Faberge Revealed an exhibition on view July 9 – October 2, 2011. The Russian jeweler Karl Fabergé, arguably the most famous jeweler of all time, crafted objects for [Read More]
BALTIMORE, MD – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are proud to announce that Matthew Porterfield is the winner of the 2011 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The [Read More]
Explore the ominous and optimistic world of Ann Irwin in Transmutation and Metamorphosis: The Collages of Ann Irwin In Ann Irwin’s universe, the unexpected becomes commonplace and the commonplace is never exactly what you expect. [Read More]
The Tampa Museum of Art presents Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation, Selections from the Hadley Martin Fisher Collection, an exhibition that examines the current generation of artists’ interest in text, symbolism, and [Read More]
The Frye Art Museum presents Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul, on view July 9, 2011 – October 30, 2011. One of the most discussed, and perhaps controversial, artists of the [Read More]
The Legion of Honor presents Rarely Seen Masterworks from the Dutch Golden Age, on view July 9–October 2, 2011. Organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where it debuted earlier this year, Dutch [Read More]
Casco / Kunstverein München announces Group Affinity Summer school, 1–14 August 2011 with public evening class every night from 8 pm, Exhibition 15 August–11 September 2011. The notion of affinity has increasingly gained significance in [Read More]
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh today announced that Eric C. Shiner has been named director of The Andy Warhol Museum. Shiner joined the museum in 2008 as the Milton Fine Curator of Art, and he has [Read More]
The Andy Warhol Museum presents The Word of God(ESS): Chitra Ganesh an exhibition on view through September 4, 2011. Chitra Ganesh’s artwork combines different visual languages, canons and cultures, including comic books, Bollywood cinema and [Read More]
The San Diego Museum of Art presents El Greco to Dalí: Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection, on view through November 06, 2011. This spectacular survey of Spanish art from the 16th century [Read More]
The Carnavalet Museum now have their own website in French, English and Spanish. The oldest of the municipal museums tells the story of Paris from a bygone era (a prehistoric dugout canoe dating from 4600 [Read More]
The board of Kunsthalle Bern announce the appointment of Fabrice Stroun (born 1969) effective from January 1st 2012. Over the last 15 years Fabrice Stroun has been working as an independent curator based in Geneva. [Read More]
Fossils of the Earth’s oldest trees have been donated to the New York State Museum after workers uncovered them during a project to reconstruct the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County. Engineers for the New York [Read More]
The National Gallery of Australia presents Out of the West: Art of Western Australia from the national collection, on view 8 July 2011 – 1 April 2012. Out of the West is the first exhibition [Read More]