Kunsthaus Graz Universalmuseum Joanneum presents media.art.collecting Perspectives of a Collection on view 16 June–28 April 2012. How does media art define itself in the course of an almost 40-year-old collection? What changes, what comes to [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Kunsthaus Graz Universalmuseum Joanneum presents Liu Xiaodong. The Process of Painting, an exhibition on view 6 June–2 September 2012. Opening: Tuesday, 5 June 2012, 7pm. Liu Xiaodong Courtesy of Zandie Brockett The painter Liu Xiaodong [Read More]
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes presents Yan Pei-Ming Un Jour Parfait / A Perfect Day, open from 15 June. Born in Shanghai in 1960, Yan Pei-Ming moved to Dijon in 1980, where he attended the [Read More]
The Pasadena Museum of California Art presents Pasadena Museum of California Art opens Project Room. Layer. A Loose Horizon, an exhibition on view June 3 through October 14, 2012. Continuing in the tradition of artists [Read More]
The Pasadena Museum of California Art presents Edgar Payne. The Scenic Journey, an exhibition on view June 3 through October 14, 2012. Edgar Payne, Sunset, Canyon de Chelly, 1916. Oil on canvas, 28 x 34 [Read More]
Buckingham Palace presents Royal Faberge, an exhibition of over 100 masterpieces from the finest collection of Fabergé in the world, on display from Saturday, 23rd July as part of a special exhibition at Buckingham Palace [Read More]
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Afterimage. Tod Ainslie’s Vision of the War of 1812, 22 photographic works on display from Saturday, June 2, 2012 to Sunday, February 24, 2013. These evocative photographs, documenting many [Read More]
The Kadist Art Foundation in Paris presents When it Stops Dripping from the Ceiling (An Exhibition That Thinks About Edification) on view 14 June–29 July 2012. Opening: Tuesday 12 June, 6–9pm. Jesse Ash, Composing a [Read More]
KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents Institute for Human Activities presents opening seminar on 11–12 June 2012. The Institute for Human Activities inaugurates its Gentrification Program with a two-day opening seminar on its specially built [Read More]
CICA (Changing Identities and Contexts in the Arts) presents Staging Knowledge at SALT on 15–16 June 2012. Once the artistic model could traditionally be described as an experience-based experiment. The current situation of research-based artistic [Read More]
Bring your family, guests, lawn chairs, and blankets for an evening of music, dancing, and fireworks under the stars in historic St. Michaels. Featuring the 17-piece band The Rhythm Doctors, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum [Read More]
Kunsthaus Zurich presents Riotous Baroque. From Cattelan to Zurbaran. Manifestations of Precarious Vitality, an exhibition on view 1 June to 2 September 2012, bringing together some 100 works of art from the 17th century and [Read More]
On 28 May 2012 the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft signed an agreement with the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection setting out the terms under which some 190 paintings and sculptures are to be made available on long-term loan [Read More]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the appointment of Jennifer Francis as the Museum’s new Executive Director of Marketing. She will take up her new duties in mid August. Francis currently serves as Head of [Read More]
The Phillips Collection presents Jasper Johns. Variations on a Theme, on view June 2 through Sept. 9, 2012. One of the most celebrated artists of the modern era, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) transformed the field [Read More]
Moderna Museet presents Yoko Ono Grapefruit, an exhibition on view 6 June–16 September. The exhibition has its starting point in the instruction pieces of Grapefruit (1964), and highlights Yoko Ono as a pioneer of conceptualism [Read More]
The Hammer Museum, LA ART in Culver City, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park in Los Feliz present Made in L.A. 2012. Camilo Ontiveros. Sketch for El Pedón, 2012. Ink on [Read More]
Moderna Museet presents Explosion! Painting as action, an exhibition on view 2 June–9 September 2012. Kazuo Shiraga painted with his feet, suspended by ropes above the canvas; Andy Warhol or his assistants urinated on the [Read More]