Photography from various periods in American history comes together in separate but related exhibitions at the Colby College Museum of Art this summer. American Modern showcases photographs from the 1930s by American masters Berenice Abbott, [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, an exhibition devoted to the art of Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa, will be on view at the Indianapolis Museum of [Read More]
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum presents the exhibition “Gerald Ford in Mao’s China”. The special exhibit “Gerald Ford in Mao’s China” features photos, artifacts, and especially documents, some newly declassified, from five [Read More]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents New Work: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova, on view July 8 through October 30, 2011), an exhibition that pairs figurative ceramic sculpture by two [Read More]
The Phoenix Art Museum presents The Bridge at Hoover Dam: Photographs by Jamey Stillings, an exhibition on view August 13, 2011 – December 4, 2011 in the Lewis Gallery. When I first encountered the bridge [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announce that Bruce Nauman’s most recent large-scale video and sound installation, For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and fingers), 2010, is now part of its [Read More]
The Casper College Werner Wildlife Museum has announced longer opening hours, the museum will now be open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon. through Fri. The Werner Wildlife Museum is a resource center as well [Read More]
The Colby College Museum of Artpresents American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White an exhibition, on view uly 9, 2011 – October 2, 2011. In the 1930s, photographers pushed the genre of documentary photography to the forefront [Read More]
MoMA RESUMES PERFORMANCE PROGRAM WITH A NEW COMMISSION BY GRAND OPENINGS Starting July 20, the New York–based artist collective Grand Openings presents 13 days of performance in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles presents George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), on view July 10–October 2, 2011. George Herms, Xenophilia, 2011, collage, 22 x 28 in., courtesy of the artist, © [Read More]
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) presents BLOCKBUSTER: Cinema for Exhibitions, on view through September 25, 2011. The exhibition Blockbuster: Cinema for Exhibitions investigates how a number of significant contemporary artists working with [Read More]
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents Faberge Revealed an exhibition on view July 9 – October 2, 2011. The Russian jeweler Karl Fabergé, arguably the most famous jeweler of all time, crafted objects for [Read More]
BALTIMORE, MD – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are proud to announce that Matthew Porterfield is the winner of the 2011 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The [Read More]
Explore the ominous and optimistic world of Ann Irwin in Transmutation and Metamorphosis: The Collages of Ann Irwin In Ann Irwin’s universe, the unexpected becomes commonplace and the commonplace is never exactly what you expect. [Read More]
The Tampa Museum of Art presents Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation, Selections from the Hadley Martin Fisher Collection, an exhibition that examines the current generation of artists’ interest in text, symbolism, and [Read More]
The Frye Art Museum presents Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul, on view July 9, 2011 – October 30, 2011. One of the most discussed, and perhaps controversial, artists of the [Read More]
The Legion of Honor presents Rarely Seen Masterworks from the Dutch Golden Age, on view July 9–October 2, 2011. Organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where it debuted earlier this year, Dutch [Read More]
Casco / Kunstverein München announces Group Affinity Summer school, 1–14 August 2011 with public evening class every night from 8 pm, Exhibition 15 August–11 September 2011. The notion of affinity has increasingly gained significance in [Read More]