The Air We Breathe – September 5, 2011–February 20, 2012 “Equality is in the air we breathe,” wrote Langston Hughes in Let America be America Again, a poem from 1938 that resonates even still. Over [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
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The Getty Museum announces the acquisition of 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts. Consisting of photographs of nudes, portraits, and images made for high-fashion ad campaigns, this acquisition is the most [Read More]
For the first time in this highly anticipated exhibition’s 20 year history, Primavera will be presented entirely outside the MCA, in various sites around Sydney’s historic Rocks precinct, located just behind the Museum. Curated by [Read More]
The Art Fund has helped the University of Manchester’s John Rylands University Library acquire the ‘missing’ seventh volume of a celebrated Renaissance manuscript. Pages from the Colonna Missal, John Rylands University Library The volume is [Read More]
Midway through its Bicentenary Jubilee Year, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria’s oldest museum, founded by Archduke Johann, is proud to present e.g., a cross-departmental project, conducted by Simon Starling & Superflex as a series of infiltrations within [Read More]
The Columbus Museum of Art presents the 2nd annual show of traditional and mid-century antiques, contemporary art and design, vintage clothing and estate jewelry in a premier market setting. More than 30 national dealers will [Read More]
Museum Kunstpalast presents Samurai, Stars of the Stage and Beautiful Women, apanese colour woodblock prints by Kunisada and Kuniyoshi, on view 0 September 2011–15 January 2012. The exhibition presents a selection of some 80 prints [Read More]
From 10am to 4pm on Saturday, November 5, come celebrate the Chesapeake’s oyster at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) OysterFest in St. Michaels, MD. The event features live music, oysters and other food, children’s [Read More]
At DFW Elite Toy Museum not only can you marvel at more than 3,000 rare collectibles such as Snappy the Miracle Dog, G.I. Joe and his K-9 pups and unique model cars with dogs, you [Read More]
The Irish Museum of Modern Art is presenting the first Irish exhibition by the internationally acclaimed Thai artist and film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. On view 27 Jul 2011 – 31 Oct 2011. For Tomorrow For Tonight [Read More]
A new presentation of Joslyn Art Museum’s renowned collection of American and American Western art awaits visitors. Debuting August 9, the reinstallation of the Memorial Building’s five north galleries highlights the history of American painting [Read More]
The Mary and Bruce Stevenson Wing Will Add 25,500 Square Feet of Space to Columbia Gorge Icon Maryhill Museum of Art’s first expansion in its 97-year history is on pace for completion in spring 2012. [Read More]
On the occasion of Iceland’s invitation as guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011, the Frankfurter Kunstverein presents the first major solo exhibition in Germany of Ragnar Kjartansson (born 1976). The exhibition comprises more [Read More]
The Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents Informality Art, economics, precarity, on view 14 August–2 October 2011. The exhibition ‘Informality’ arises from the increasing attention being given to the role of banks in our economy, and [Read More]
The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art presentsTBA:11 Time-Based Art Festival, open September 8-October 30, 2011. PICA’s ninth-annual Time-Based Art Festival takes over Portland, Oregon, September 8th through October 30th for an all-hours happening of contemporary [Read More]
The Aspen Art Museum will host a groundbreaking ceremony for its new location at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, the nonprofit’s board of trustees announced late Tuesday, reports the Aspen Times “Construction of the 30,000-square-foot [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD is hosting one of the nation’s largest gatherings of small boat enthusiasts and unique watercraft at the 29th Annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival from 10am [Read More]
The Irish Museum of Modern Art presents THROUGH THE EYES comprises of a series of five projects dating from 2003 to 2010 by celebrated Irish artist Gerard Byrne, surveying almost a decade in which his [Read More]