Free admission with downloaded Museum Day tickets SEATTLE, Sept. 14, 2011–The Museum of Flight will honor Smithsonian Media’s Museum Day tickets for free admission to the Museum on Sept. 24. Museum Day is an annual [Read More]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
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Kunsthalle Zürich presents Walid Raad Miraculous Beginnings on view through 30 October 2011. What forms, stories, gestures and concepts are made possible by wars? How are certain events lived but not experienced? How does violence [Read More]
One of the most curious tendencies in modern and contemporary art has been that of museums created by artists. Museum Show is a historical survey exhibition—or a ‘museum of museums’ perhaps—displaying a comprehensive selection of [Read More]
New museum complex, designed by celebrated firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, to be located in the Downtown Berkeley Arts District. View from the corner of Center and Oxford Streets. Image courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro. [Read More]
“Africa Underground” returns Friday, Sept. 30, with “No Boundaries,” an evening of eclectic delights at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from 7 to 11 p.m. Coming on the heels of a successful second [Read More]
A newly expanded version of the Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) Online Catalogue Raisonné introduces 333 works produced by the acclaimed Los Angeles print and sculpture workshop between early 1997 and late 2005. The online [Read More]
The Menil Collection and Rice University’s Rice Building Workshop (RBW) have joined forces to design and construct a café across Sul Ross Street from the museum’s main entrance. The project began earlier this year, when [Read More]
The Smart Museum of Art at the The University of Chicago Announces Vision and Communism an exhibition on view September 29, 2011–January 22, 2012. Opening: Thursday, September 29, 5:30–7:30 pm. The Soviet artist and designer [Read More]
The Valencian Institute for Modern Art presents José Manuel Ciria: The Last Decade an exhibition on view Sep 13 – Nov 06, 2011. The exhibition begins with a still life by Ciria in tribute to [Read More]
SculptureCenter presents Cosmic Voodoo Circus, an exhibition of new work by Sanford Biggers commissioned through SculptureCenter’s Artist in Residence program. Merging modern and post-modern strategies with vernacular forms, Biggers studies and posits historical and contemporary [Read More]
Susan Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), has announced the appointment of Russell Lord as the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs. Lord, a historian, curator, and educator [Read More]
The board of Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, is very pleased to announce the appointment of Defne Ayas as its new director, effective from 1st January 2012. Defne Ayas will succeed [Read More]
(Katonah, NY) – The Katonah Museum of Art has announced that the 2011 Himmel Award & Lecture honoring Chuck Close has been postponed. Originally scheduled for October 16, the Award & Lecture by Close will [Read More]
The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art presents East of Eden / Photorealism: Versions of Reality: Photorealism as a Cold-War phenomenon, on view 14 September 2011–15 January 2012. Don Eddy, Untitled (Volkswagen), 1971. Acryl [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art Modern presents An Evening with Alejandro Jodorowsky on October 31, 7:00 p.m. As a coda to the exhibition of his work at MoMA PS1 earlier this year, Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s governing body, the Board of Regents, will conduct its 2011 public forum Monday, Sept. 19, from 2:30 to 3:45 p.m., in the Hirshhorn Museum. Reporters are invited to attend the public session and [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and the National Reconnaissance Office will be hosting a one-day-only viewing opportunity of the newly declassified HEXAGON (KH-9) satellite in the parking lot of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy [Read More]
Kunstmuseum Bern presents Modernist Classics and Contemporary Art face-to-face an exhibition on view 14.09.2011 – 08.01.2012. Opening: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 18h30. At the beginning of the 20th century, Hermann and Margrit Rupf laid the [Read More]