The San Jose Museum of Art will explore the work of the pivotal Bay Area artist Joan Brown (1938-1990) in the exhibition This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown, on view October 14, 2011-March 11, 2012. The exhibition, the first major survey of Brown’s art in a decade, is the first to […]
Highlights include Positive Exposure: The Spirit of Difference, café conversations, and Difference Maker Awards CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center takes inspiration from Rick Guidotti’s photography exhibit, Positive Exposure: The Spirit of Difference, and presents an exciting month of October activities! Rick Guidotti and Kathleen Cail make a world of difference, finding beauty where others might […]
The Zabludowicz Collection presents the first UK solo exhibition of US artist Laurel Nakadate including an important new body of work commissioned for the exhibition. On view 29 September–11 December 2011. Laurel Nakadate, “From the series 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears,” 2011, September 4, 2010 Courtesy the artist, Zabludowicz Collection and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks […]
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced that it has received two major grants from the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation for projects at Phnom Bakheng in Cambodia and Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania. Phnom Bakheng, built between the late-ninth and early tenth centuries as a state temple for a city later absorbed into Angkor, […]
Sotheby’s announce that it will offer a group of works from the collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem across a series of sales throughout the upcoming autumn and winter auction seasons, in both New York and London. The group will be led by works in the New York sales of Impressionist & Modern Art this […]
A Civil War Exhibition Commemorating the 150th anniversary opens at the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in September The official traveling exhibition of the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, Common People in Uncommon Times: The Civil War Experience in Tennessee, has been organized by the Tennessee State Museum. The exhibition, which opens at the Great […]
The Nationalmuseum in Sweden presents The Peredvizhniki – Pioneers of Russian Painting an exhibition on view 29 September 2011–22 January 2012. Ilya Repin, Barge-haulers on the Volga, 1870-73 Oil on canvas State Russian Museum © 2011, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg The Peredvizhniki were a group of artists who came together in 1870 in protest […]
