Phoenix Art Museum presentsThe Politics of Place: Latin American Photography, Past and Present, an exhibition on view August 4 – December 2, 2012 in Orme Lewis Gallery Throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
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The Harn Museum of Art announced the appointment of Carol McCusker as Curator of Photography. She is the first to fill the curatorship since it was endowed through a $1.5 million gift by the Mary [Read More]
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art presents Kan Xuan. Millet Mounds, an exhibition on view Sep 15, 2012 – Nov 10, 2012. Kan Xuan, Millet Mounds, 2012, Video Installation (detail) Kan Xuan has honed a unique [Read More]
The National Museum of Ireland presents ASGARD. The conserved 1914 Howth gun running vessel at the Collins Barracks in Dublin, in a permanent exhibition opens to the public from Thursday 9th August 2012. The yacht [Read More]
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art announces Yung Ho Chang. Material-ism an exhibition on view Sep 30, 2012 – Dec 20, 2012. Yung Ho Chang, Shanghai Corporate Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo, 2010. Courtesy of [Read More]
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents an exhibition of work by Rejina Pyo winner of the Han Nefkens Fashion Award 2012. From 29 September Pyo’s collection ‘Structural Mode’ will be on view in the Willem van [Read More]
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art presents Curated by Wang Xingwei. Specificity, on view through Aug 30th 2012. Selected artists include: Liu Weijian, Wang Xingjie, Wen Ling, Xia Guanglong, Zhan Yingxiang, Zhang Shujian, and Zhang Wuyun. [Read More]
The Guggenheim has announced the acquisition of George Segal’s sculpture (1965–72), a gift from the George and Helen Segal Foundation. Curatorial Assistant for Collections Carmen Hermo describes the work: George Segal is perhaps best known [Read More]
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) presents TBA.12 Time-Based Art Festival, on September 6–16, 2012. Morgan Ritter, The Thoughtful Digestion of Unique Objects, Complex Subjects, & Composited Projects. Photo courtesy of the artist. TBA is [Read More]
The exhibition of New Zealand’s most prestigious art award, The Walters Prize 2012 opens at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. The Walters Prize is awarded for an outstanding work of contemporary New Zealand art [Read More]
Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas presents National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West, an exhibition on view October 27, 2012 – January 26, 2013. Monument Valley, Utah, 2001. Bruce Dale/National Geographic Stock [Read More]
The USS Edson has arrived at the Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum in Bay City, Michigan, where it will become a floating museum and tourist attraction. The USS Edson was commissioned in 1958 and decommissioned [Read More]
Turner Contempory presents Maria Nepomuceno. Tempo para Respirar (Breathing Time), an exhibition on view 14 September 2012 – 24 March 2013. Maria Nepomuceno Turner Contempory The second artist commission for Turner Contempory’s Sunley Gallery is [Read More]
Western Australian Museum – Albany presents new discoveries in the world around us in the next In the Wild West lecture at the Western Australian Museum – Albany on 16 and 17 August. ‘New discoveries [Read More]
The Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder will host two public lectures on mining and malleefowl on August 15 and 19, in celebration of National Science Week. Kalgoorlie – Boulder’s ‘Superpit’ Image courtesy of KCGM WA [Read More]
The Liberal-National Government will build a new $428.3million State museum in the Perth Cultural Centre, with $70.5million to be spent over the forward estimates. Culture and the Arts Minister John Day said the new museum [Read More]
Museo Amparo presents Francis Alys. Fabiola, an exhibition on view through October 15, 2012. The exhibition features more than four hundred images of St. Fabiola, acquired over more than a decade by Francis Alÿs, the [Read More]
The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York’s premiere French cultural center, has appointed Antoine Guerrero to the post of Director of Visual Art Programs. This newly created position reflects FIAF’s commitment to an expanded [Read More]