After an extensive international search spanning many months, a new Director of Education and Interpretive Programs has been named by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Judith M. Koke comes to Kansas City from the Art [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2011
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A three-part sculpture by Austrian artist Franz West is installed on the roof of the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ Regency building on The Mall from 11 October, 2011 through 29 January 2012. The installation consists [Read More]
The Guggenheim Museum presents Brooklyn-based artist Nicola López with a site-specific sculptural collage environment in the rotunda, titled Landscape X: Under Construction, on view October 11–25, 2011. Conceived to reflect the spirit of today’s most [Read More]
Rocky Mountain Express opens October 14 CINCINNATI – Beautiful landscapes. Breathtaking vistas. Jaw-dropping chasms. Roaring river gorges. Cincinnati Museum Center’s new OMNIMAX film, Rocky Mountain Express, takes you back to the Age of Steam! Carve [Read More]
Tate Modern presents The Unilever Series 2011. Tacita Dean FILM on 11 October 2011–11 March 2012. Tate Modern has unveiled the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series by the artist Tacita Dean. Entitled FILM, the [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art will salute the distinguished career of artist Cindy Sherman and the leadership of Ann L. Gund, Jo Carole Lauder, Wendy W. Luers, Carol Price and Eden Rafshoon of the [Read More]
National Museums Scotland presents an exhibition devoted to Admiral Lord Cochrane, on view 7 October 2011 – 19 February 2012. Admiral Cochrane, the Real Master and Commander opens on Friday 7 October and tells the [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass will unveil its 2011 Rakow Commission on October 21: Five Pods by Seattle-based artist Ann Gardner. Gardner, who is the first glass mosaic artist to be awarded a Rakow Commission, [Read More]
The Yale Center for British Art presents Adapting the eye. An archive of the British in India. 1770-1830 on view October 11–December 31, 2011. Organized to complement the Center’s major fall exhibition on Johan Zoffany, [Read More]
Daniel Libeskind’s winning design boldly interrupts the original building’s symmetry. The extension, a massive, five-story 140-ton wedge of glass, concrete and steel, cuts through the 135-year-old former arsenal’s structural order. A 98-foot high viewing platform [Read More]
OCAÑA 1973-1983: ACTIONS, ACTS, ACTIVISM October 7, 2011–January 15, 2012 Ocaña arrived in Barcelona in 1973, the year when Admiral Carrero Blanco was assassinated in Madrid. He died in Seville in 1983, as a result [Read More]
The Kunstverein Hamburg presents Kathrin Sonntag and Plamen Dejanoff exhibitions on view through 30 December 2011. Plamen Dejanoff, “The Bronze House (B&GG),” 2011. Installation view Kunstverein Hamburg. Photo: Fred Dott / Kunstverein. In his work, [Read More]
Seattle writer presents photo history of early flights at Edwards Air Force Base SEATTLE – On Oct. 22, Seattle author Ted Huetter looks at the exciting flight test programs that took place at the legendary [Read More]
The San Antonio Museum of Art presents an exhibition 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade on view through Febuary 19, 2012. Featuring Selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan and the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University presents Cute and Creepy an exhibition on view October 14 – November 20, 2011. Curated by Carrie Ann Baade. Catalog essay by Dr. Nancy Hightower on the [Read More]
The Courtald Gallery at Somerset House presents “The Spanish Line: Drawings From Ribera to Picasso an exhibition on view 3 October 2011 – 15 January 2012. This exhibition explores the rich, intriguing and varied territory [Read More]
Exhibition Features 200 Works by European and American Modernists in the Metropolitan Museum’s Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art Presents stieglitz and His Artists, Matisse to O’Keeffe a new exhibition on view October 13, 2011 [Read More]
De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam presentsThe Holy Family by Rembrandt from 11 October to 13 November 2011. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Holy Family, 1645, oil on canvas, 117 x 91 cm © State Hermitage Museum, [Read More]