The Getty Villa hosts a one-day symposium, on November 4, 2011, exploring the role “modern classicism” has played in the understanding of both modernism and the classical past. Confirmed participants include Jean-Louis Andral, Picasso Museum, [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Demons, Angels, and Monsters: The Supernatural in Art Demons, Angels, and Monsters: The Supernatural in Art features otherworldly figures depicted in works of art from the Getty Museum’s permanent collection. For a limited time (through [Read More]
The National Gallery of Victoria welcomed Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh to The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia on Wednesday 26 October 2011. The Royal visit in the [Read More]
The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Wayne Gonzales: Light to Dark / Dark to Light on display at NOMA through February 26, 2011. Wayne Gonzales, Oceana, 2005. Acrylic on canvas, 68 x 86 in [Read More]
Composition for Two Wings – works by Akram Zaatari, launches Kunstnernes Hus’ annual event Oslo Contemporary Art Exhibition, which aims to challenge contemporary arts’ traditional and centralized cultural networks. For Oslo Contemporary Art Exhibition 2011, [Read More]
The Frac Haute-Normandie presents L’inventaire, vol. 1 1983.001.1 / 1984.079.4, on view through 27 November 2011. As part of the new events programme, Frac Haute-Normandie is offering visitors the chance to take stock of its [Read More]
The Portland Museum of Art presents an exhibition of the most significant collection of Shaker objects. Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection, on view October 27, 2011 – February 5, 2012. Gather Up [Read More]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Kienholz. The Signs of The Times on view October 22, 2011–January 29, 2012. Rebellious, provocative, and polarizing, the oeuvre associated with the name Kienholz has always caused quite a stir since [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has pioneered the use of CT scanning technology in noninvasive scientific research. Now, with the gift of a Siemens SOMATOM Emotion 6 CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare, Smithsonian [Read More]
The Worcester Art Museum presents Rest Elsewhere: Netherlandish Mannerist Prints, on view through December 3, 2011. Jacques de Gheyn II, Dutch, 1565-1629 after Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617 The Colonel (detail), from the series The Haarlem [Read More]
Some 10,000 primary-source documents will be available worldwide for the first time, launching with materials from Mexico, Argentina and the American Midwest The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and its research institute, the International Center [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has announced the development and release of new curriculum and supporting materials based on the museum’s beloved “Owney the Dog.” The announcement took place at the recent Smithsonian Institution’s annual [Read More]
The new Stuart Wing has opened at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. The $13 million, four-year project provides a new 18,000-square- foot expansion to the museum on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. [Read More]
The Nationalmuseum’s collection of applied art and modern design has gained an armchair, a table and candelabra from the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925. The acquisition is an [Read More]
Matthias Waschek arrives at the Worcester Art Museum with an international career of 20 years in the art world. As the Director of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, he built [Read More]
The Fruitmarket Gallery presents Bill Bollinger a major exhibition of the work of American artist Bill Bollinger (1939–1988), on view 28 October 2011–8 January 2012. One of the most important artists of the 1960s. A [Read More]
Bergen Kunsthall presents Tauba Auerbach Tetrachromat on view 11 November–22 December 2011. In Tauba Auerbach’s work traditional distinctions between image, dimension and content collapse. Surface, specifically the larger issues surrounding topology, has been a central [Read More]
Yale Center launches fall season with premiere of Zoffany exhibition that re-evaluates artist – features rarely-seen works The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven presents Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed on view October [Read More]