Yearly Archives: 2012

Martin-Gropius-Bau presents Building the Revolution Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935, an exhibition on view 5 April to 9 July 2012. The Exhibition “Architects of Revolution” sheds light on an area of the Soviet avant-garde that [Read More]

The Rockbund Art Museum presents Model Home – A Proposition by Michael Lin, an exhibition on view through 3 June 2012. Model Home is the latest proposition presented by artist Michael Lin, by way of [Read More]

This gift includes influential 19th and 20th century artists such as Delacroix, Cézanne, Stella, Warhol and Magritte Baltimore – The Walters Art Museum announces the planned gift by Robert E. Meyerhoff of 21 works of [Read More]

The High Museum of Art and Emory University’s department of art history has received a significant grant from the Mellon Foundation. The grant, which focuses on object-centered curatorial training, will provide funding to support two [Read More]

A collection of antique Silver Arrow Chris-Craft boats headlines the 25th anniversary celebration of the Antique & Classic Boat Festival, to be held at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD over [Read More]

The seven national museums in Wales received 1.69 million visits in 2011-12, the highest total ever recorded since free entry was introduced in April 2001. The Welsh Government and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales [Read More]

The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents Military Series. Aleksandr Sokurov in the MACBA Collection, an exhibition on view 20 May 2012. In the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival Aleksandr Sokurov [Read More]

Storm King Art Center, opens to the public on April 4 for its 2012 season. Located about an hour north of New York City, in the Hudson Valley, Storm King encompasses over 500 pristine acres [Read More]

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the American studio-glass movement with the opening of the renovated Aviva and Jack A. Robinson glass gallery on Wednesday, April 4. The gallery, [Read More]

The Bundeskunsthalle (Art and Exhibition Hall) of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn presents Menage a trois Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente, on view through 20 May 2012. Andy Warhol, Mao, 1973 Acrylic and silkscreen on [Read More]

Thomas Smith (b. 1938), visual effect producer for such films as “Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial” (1982), has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research [Read More]

The Art Institute of Chicago presents Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Japanese Art in an exhibition on view May 9–October 28, 2012. Yoshida Ayomi. Touches, W1-M.A.K., 1988. Japanese Print Acquisition Fund, Japanese Art Shinkokai Fund For [Read More]

The Art Institute of Chicago presents Fashioning the Object. Bless, Boudicca, Sandra Backlund, on view April 14–September 13, 2012. Contemporary fashion over the last half-century has become increasingly influenced by current social, political, and environmental [Read More]

A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) recognizes the extraordinary generosity of one the Gallery’s great patrons. A Tribute to Ayala Zacks (1912–2011) opens April 4, 2012 in the Frank P. Wood [Read More]

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) announced it has joined the Google Art Project. The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and a select group of international art partners. Using a combination of various [Read More]

Bundeskunsthalle (Art and Exhibition Hall) of the Federal Republic of Germany presents Romy Schneider, an exhibition on view 5 April to 24 June 2012. Romy Schneider (Vienna, 1938 – 1982, Paris) was one of the [Read More]