Best known for bird’s-eye-view landscape photography, Gerco de Ruijter (Dutch, b. Vianen, 1961; lives and works in Rotterdam) mined Google Earth for the images he montaged into his stop-frame animation “CROPS” (2012). The hypnotic four-minute [Read More]
Daily Archives: August 13, 2013
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The National Museum of American History announced a $5 million donation by SC Johnson in support of the renovation of the building’s 120,000-square-foot west exhibition wing. The updated wing will feature new exhibitions, program spaces [Read More]
Currier Museum of Art presents Visual Dispatches from the Vietnam War an exhibition on view Nov. 11, 2013. This exhibition presents 35 iconic photographs that brought the Vietnam War to the dinner table of every [Read More]
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York presents Anonymous, an exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art featuring over 50 works of painting, sculpture, installation, and video art by 27 artists living [Read More]
The Dallas Museum of Art will open its new Paintings Conservation Studio in November 2013, as part of the Museum’s initiative to establish a more comprehensive in-house conservation program. The launch of the Studio coincides [Read More]
Getty Museum presents Miracles and Martyrs: Saints in the Middle Ages an exhibition on view September 3, 2013–March 2, 2014 at the Getty Center. Venerated for their willingness to suffer torture and death, their ability [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum is offering a number of culinary events in the coming months spotlighting the lush gardens and bountiful herbs at both locations. Guests can take part in hands-on cooking classes, or [Read More]
The Getty announced that it was lifting restrictions on the use of images to which the Getty holds all the rights or are in the public domain. Getty President and CEO Jim Cuno made the [Read More]
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a gift of materials related to writer Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), a prominent and prolific writer [Read More]
Tate St Ives, part of the Tate family of Museums which includes Tate Britain, Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, is developing as an international centre of art and exchange at the heart of Cornwall. Rooted [Read More]
The REAL DMZ PROJECT 2013: Borderline opened on July 27—the sixtieth anniversary of the military cease-fire between North and South Korea—featuring works by international artists in sites located beyond the military checkpoints of the official [Read More]
Crawford Art Gallery presents Michelle Deignan Her Fanciful Digression an exhibition on view until October 5, 2013, as part of its ongoing screening series by Irish and international artists. Her Fanciful Digression (2012) is set [Read More]
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) announces TBA:13 Time-Based Art Festival on September 12–22, 2013. Each September, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival creates a space outside of our regular lives. Artists [Read More]