Bowers Museum presents Gems of the Medici an exhibition on view through September 15, 2013. Gems of the Medici, highlights some of the oldest and most unique pieces of the Medici collections including antiquities dating [Read More]
Daily Archives: May 9, 2013
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The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 14th annual National Design Awards program. Today, Cooper-Hewitt acting director Caroline Baumann announced the winners of the 2013 National [Read More]
Kunstmuseum Bonn presents HEIMSUCHUNG. Unscanny Spaces in Contemporary Art an exhibition on view 09.05. – 25.08.2013. The exhibition “HEIMsuchung” is about the transition from a formerly intimidating exterior to an intimidating interior and the parallelization [Read More]
Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) member museums across the United States, Canada, and Mexico will offer free or reduced admission, special programs, and other initiatives on May 18, Art Museum Day. In 2012, AAMD [Read More]
The National Portrait Gallery, London has acquired a previously unknown painting of Elizabeth I attributed to the famous miniaturist Isaac Oliver. The small painting – the size of a postcard – will go on show [Read More]
Plans released depicting The New York Public Library’s all-new 53rd Street branch in midtown Manhattan portray an open, light-filled design that offers a rich variety of public reading and meeting spaces, a family and children’s [Read More]
CAPC musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux presents Sylvia Sleigh. A Visceral Eye an exhibition on view 16 May–1 September 2013. A Visceral Eye is the fourth step of the most comprehensive retrospective to date of [Read More]
Irish Museum of Modern Art present Tino Sehgal: This Situation on view 19 May 2013. Turner prize nominee Tino Sehgal presents his pioneering work This Situation, in which he responds to and engages with gallery [Read More]
Greek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale present Stefanos Tsivopoulos History Zero on view 1 June–24 November 2013. Stefanos Tsivopoulos will represent Greece at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia with his [Read More]
Inspired by Allen Ginsberg’s collection of inscribed snapshots on view in the exhibition Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, Bay Area artists and scholars will create a unique performance-based tour of the gallery. Performances [Read More]
Irish Museum of Modern Art present Willie Doherty: Secretion, 2012 an exhibition on view 21 May–1 September 2013. IMMA presents the Irish premiere of the internationally renowned artist Willie Doherty’s film work Secretion, 2012, in [Read More]
Experience the ecstatic high-energy happening-style of the Beats during Quiet Lightning’s Allen Ginsberg-inspired literary performance at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Started in 2009, Quiet Lightning has fast become one of San Francisco’s most popular literary [Read More]
City of Munich present Elmgreen & Dragset A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich Öffentlich on view through September 2013. A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich Öffentlich by Elmgreen & Dragset is an artistic project in [Read More]
In celebration of Allen Ginsberg’s birthday (he would have been 87 on June 3) the Contemporary Jewish Museum screens the modern classic film Howl which explores the sensationalism surrounding the publication of one of the [Read More]
Emergency Pavilion presents Rebuilding Utopia Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia open June 1st–November 10th 2013. If a ghost were to walk through the exhibition, it would take [Read More]