Research recently revealed that the Rijksmuseum’s monumental bronze statue of Shiva was cast in solid bronze. The thousand-year-old temple statue was X-rayed, along with the lorry transporting it, in the most powerful X-ray tunnel for [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Chris Burden. Metropolis II, on view from January 14, 2012. Chris Burden, Metropolis II, 2010, long-term loan courtesy of the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Foundation, © Chris [Read More]
The Art Gallery of Hamilton presents two films by Mark Lewis, from January 14 to May 21. Art Gallery of Hamilton Organized and circulated by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal as part of the [Read More]
The Art Gallery of Hamilton presents KRISTIN BJORNERUD. SAFE HARBOUR. On view January 14 to May 21, KRISTIN BJORNERUD: SAFE HARBOUR highlights the artist’s lyrical watercolours conveying myths and legends, dreams and superstitions. This exhibition [Read More]
The Art Gallery of Hamilton presents William Kurelek. The Messenger. On view from January 28 to April 29, WILLIAM KURELEK: THE MESSENGER is the first exhibition of William Kurelek’s (1927 – 1977) work in a [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum’s collection of American art, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, returns to view in expanded, reconceived, and dramatic new galleries on January 16, 2012, when the Museum inaugurates [Read More]
The Morris Museum presents Celebrating Our Legacy: 20th Anniversary Exhibition of Art in the Atrium on view January 13 – March 18, 2012. Untitled, 1947, Norman Lewis, Collection of Tarin Fuller In celebration of its [Read More]
DHC/ART Foundation presents a thematic group show titled Chronicles of a Disappearance, open January 19 – May 13, 2012, bringing together major works by five acclaimed international artists. The exhibition explores different notions of disappearance [Read More]
Collaboration will ensure the long-term preservation of Robert Smithson’s iconic artwork, the Spiral Jetty A community information session with participating institutions will be held Thursday, February 2, 2012, at 7 pm at the Salt Lake [Read More]
The Abbot Hall Art Gallery opens Turner and his Contemporaries. The Hickman Bacon Watercolour Collection an exhibition on view xhibition 12 January – 14 April 2012. As part of its Fiftieth Anniversary, Abbot Hall Art [Read More]
The Reykjavik Art Museum presents Santiago Sierra. Films and Works on 20 January–10 April 2012. Films and Works will be the first presentation of the complete collection of Santiago Sierra’s films and video documentation up [Read More]
The Thinker” returns to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University after two years on loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art. Starting Jan. 25, the public can again view this iconic work by [Read More]
BALTIMORE, MD – This spring, take a closer look at prints by leading contemporary artists and innovators in printmaking when the BMA brings 20 presses, printers, and galleries from around the U.S. for the Baltimore [Read More]
The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio presents An El Greco Rediscovered, on view January 14-May 20, 2012. El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) and workshop, Head of Christ, ca. 1579-86. Oil on canvas. Collection of the [Read More]
This fall, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will present a major survey of masterworks by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two renowned and prolific early 20th-century painters whose work continues to resonate with viewers [Read More]
The Israel Museum presents an exhibition, on view January 10, 2012-June 9, 2012, that examines the masterpiece The Death of Adonis (ca. 1614) by Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, analyzing its iconographic sources, composition, [Read More]
The ARKEN Museum presents The Essence of Colour. The Art of Queen Margrethe II an exhibition on view 28 JANUARY 2012 – 1 JULY 2012 . H.M. Queen Margrethe II, The Avenue at Fredensborg Castle [Read More]
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will open its new Renzo Piano-designed wing, on January 19, 2012, with exhibitions by several contemporary artists with roots in the museum’s acclaimed Artist-in-Residence program, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary [Read More]