The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960, on view June 8–September 12, 2012. In the 1950s, the Guggenheim Museum’s then-director James Johnson Sweeney championed what he [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
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The Smart Museum of Art at the The University of Chicago presents From the Land of the Morning Calm. Traditions of Korean Art, an exhibition on view July 5 – September 9, 2012. Organized around [Read More]
The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents Snapshot. Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, an exhibition on view June 8-September 2, 2012. George Hendrik Breitner, Girl in Red Kimono, Geesje Kwak, 1893–95. Oil on canvas, 24 [Read More]
The Morgan Library & Museum present Churchill. The Power of Words an exhibition on view June 8 through September 23, 2012. Sir Winston Churchill’s impact upon the twentieth century is difficult to overestimate. A master [Read More]
The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design presents Dan Walsh UnCommon Ground an exhibition on view June 08 through through October 21, 2012. Dan Walsh, Stall, 2011. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper [Read More]
The Museum of Cycladic Art exhibits a new site-specific work by Jannis Kounellis, on view until 30 September 2012. Jannis Kounellis exhibits a new site-specific work at the Museum of Cycladic Art, at the Stathatos [Read More]
The Museum of Cycladic Art presents a new, site-specific installation by Ugo Rondinone, on view until 19 September 2012. Ugo Rondinone, nude (xxxxxxxxxxxxx), 2011. Wax, earth pigments, 74 x 109 x 64 cm. Ed. 3/3 [Read More]
The DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art presents first survey exhibition in North America of Ryoji Ikeda on view June 14–November 18, 2012. Ryoji Ikeda, data.matrix [nº1-10], 2009. Audiovisual installation. © Ryoji Ikeda. Photo by Ryuichi [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that Barbara O’Brien, the Museum’s current chief curator and director of exhibitions and collections, will become the Kemper Museum’s new [Read More]
The Michener Art Museum announces Suspended Harmonies. Sculptures by Ted Hallman, an exhibition on view November 3, 2012 – March 3, 2013. Ted Hallman will create a unique installation using fibers and textiles in the [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass is breaking ground on it’s new North Wing expansion project,on June 7. Featuring a new building devoted to contemporary glass and a new venue for the Museum’s signature glassmaking demonstrations. [Read More]
Metropolitan Museum of Art present Tomas Saraceno. Cloud City as a Work of Art atop the museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor roof garden through November 4, 2012 (weather permitting). Artist Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City, [Read More]
The Norton Museum of Art present Elegant Enigmas. The Art of Edward Gorey, an exhibition on view June 7, 2012 – September 2, 2012. Edward Gorey (1925-2000) is among the rare breed of artist whose [Read More]
A rich and extraordinary hoard that includes jewelry and silver and gold coins from the Roman period was recently exposed in a salvage excavation in the vicinity of Qiryat Gat. The excavation, undertaken on behalf [Read More]
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University announced Prof. Jeffrey Quilter will be the next William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum as of July 1, 2012. The Howells [Read More]
GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo presents Remco Torenbosch EUROPA on 15 June–30 September 2012. Opening: Thursday 14 June, 6:30pm. EUROPA is the first solo exhibition in an Italian institution of the [Read More]
Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced that distinguished curator, scholar, and archaeologist Dorothea Arnold will retire on June 30, following 21 years as head of the Department of Egyptian Art, [Read More]
The LUMA Foundation presents To the Moon via the Beach on 5–8 July 2012. “Announcement that work has commenced will be made by three short blasts on an air horn—drawing people to the Amphitheatre. This [Read More]