A new augmented reality app, commissioned by Tate as part of The Great British Art Debate project, has been launched, available for free across the UK and Europe. The Pocket Art Gallery app allows users [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents “Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports,” a symposium and community conversation Thursday, Nov. 1, from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. in the museum’s Rasmuson [Read More]
CAM Raleigh presents an exhibition of work by Angel Otero, on view October 19, 2012–February 4, 2013. Angel Otero CAM Raleigh Otero’s painting process is anything but conventional—he spends as much time working with dried [Read More]
In the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies is an evolving collaborative project between the Museum’s Conservation Department and its Egyptian Section. Molly Gleeson, principal project conservator, focuses her work on the cleaning, restoration, and preservation [Read More]
Art Institute of Chicago presents an exhibition of work by Steve McQueen, on view October 21, 2012 – January 6, 2013. Steve McQueen. Current, 1999. Photo courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York [Read More]
Chrysler Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition by Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak, on view DEC 30, 2012. This gallery full of silk-covered forms, suggestive of the stupas found in Buddhist religious tradition, gently rock [Read More]
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Bivouac, an exhibition on view Oct 20, 2012–Jan 20, 2013. Installation view, Bivouac, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France October 7, 2011 – July 30, 2012 Photo © [Read More]
New DNA studies by Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) researchers indicate that two opposing views on the origin of ratites, large flightless birds originating on the southern supercontinent Gondwana, might both be correct. Dr. Allan J. [Read More]
TheLos Angeles County Museum of Art presents Mapplethorpe. XYZ an exhibition of three portfolios created by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). On view October 21, 2012–March 24, 2013. Robert Mapplethorpe Cedric, N.Y.C., 1978, from X [Read More]
Kunsthaus Zurich presents Giacometti. The Donations a special exhibition of Giovanni and Alberto Giacometti, on view through 17 February 2013. Important series of works from the famous artist family originally from the alpine Val Bregaglia [Read More]
Generali Foundation presents Counter-Production, an exhibition on view Through December 16, 2012. Counter-Production, 2012. Exhibition view. © Generali Foundation, 2012. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler. In the wake of technological and economic transformation during the twentieth and [Read More]
Royal Academy of Arts presents Artists Laboratory 06: Stephen Chambers RA, on view 24 October–2 December 2012. Lifting the title from William Wyler’s 1958 film The Big Country, Stephen Chambers has made a colossal print [Read More]
California College of the Arts is seeking a creative and dynamic individual to become the next director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. California College of the Arts, San Francisco The CCA Wattis [Read More]
Swiss Institute announces Annual Benefit Dinner & Auction 2012 on Friday, November 2, 6–11pm. With art works by: Rita Ackermann, John M Armleder, Bastien Aubry/Dimitri Broquard, Linus Bill/Adrien Horni, Olaf Breuning, Valentin Carron, Roe Etheridge, [Read More]
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the Portraits, Landscapes and Biblical Paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner, an exhibition on view from October 21, 2012, through January 13, 2013. Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859–1937), The Annunciation, [Read More]
MoMA PS1 presents Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, an exhibition on view March 11, 2013. Dale Brockman Davis. Swept, 1970. Mixed mediums. 30 x 40 x 6″ (76.2 x 101.6 x [Read More]
Victoria & Albert Museum in London presents Hollywood Costume, an exhibition on view 20 October through 27 January, 2013. Dorothy Gale costume from ‘The Wizard of Oz’, designed by Adrian, 1939 Victoria & Albert Museum [Read More]
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead presents an exhibition of works by Tris Vonna-Michell, on view 20 OCTOBER 2012 – 11 NOVEMBER 2012. A new narrative installation resulting from Tris Vonna-Michell’s recent residency at Gibside, [Read More]