Museum Kunstpalast presents World Class. The Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918, exhibition on view 24 September 2011–22 January 2012. For half a century the Düsseldorf School of Painting was amongst the leading European schools of [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Retrospectives of Francesca Woodman, Rineke Djikstra, and Cindy Sherman One of the first museums to recognize photography as a legitimate art form and establish a photography collection, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) [Read More]
Columbus Views, an exhibition open from September 30, 2011 through Spring, 2012, celebrates the Bicentennial of the City of Columbus. The exhibition, drawn primarily from CMA’s collection, gathers works by artists such as George Bellows, [Read More]
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]
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]