Metropolitan Museum of Art presents The Cyrus Cylinder–2,600-Year-Old Symbol of Tolerance—on View at Metropolitan Museum June 20–August 4, 2013. The Cyrus Cylinder—a 2,600-year-old inscribed clay document from Babylon in ancient Iraq and one of the [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) unveiled Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s monumental sculpture series Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze in the reflecting pool of Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square. The installation precedes the AGO’s [Read More]
Secession presents Rossella Biscotti The Side Room on view July 5–September 1, 2013. Rossella Biscotti’s installations are generally highly complex and comprise sculptures, performances, documents, and audio works. Based on archival research and personal conversations [Read More]
Secession presents Robert Irwin: Three Volumes an exhibition on view July 5–September 1, 2013. For over 40 years now, seeing, or more specifically, perception, has been the foundation of Robert Irwin’s artistic practice. At the [Read More]
Secession presents Thomas Locher Homo Oeconomicus an exhibition on view July 5–September 1, 2013. A pioneer of neo-conceptual art since the late 1980s, the German artist Thomas Locher examines the rules of language and the [Read More]
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announces LaToya Ruby Frazier: WITNESS open June 22–October 13, 2013. LaToya Ruby Frazier’s documentary practice focuses on her family and her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Braddock was [Read More]
Present Tense exhibition will be taking place nineteen years after the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, twenty-one years after the peace agreements in Mozambique, twenty-three years after Namibia declared independence and eleven [Read More]
Master shipwright and rigger Mark Donohue of Mantoloking, NJ has been named Rosie Parks project manager for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD. As project manager, Donohue is responsible for restoring [Read More]
The Contemporary Jewish Museum, in collaboration with a host of local literary organizations, celebrates the life and legacy of Allen Ginsberg with four days of special events at venues around the Bay Area. Events include [Read More]
Brandywine River Museum presents Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent and Monhegan an exhibition on view June 15 through November 17. A small island off the coast of Maine, Monhegan has long lured artists to its remote [Read More]
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is celebrating its’ 80th birthday on June 19 with a special event and exhibit opening. MSI will salute the 80th year with the Jesse White Tumblers, remarks [Read More]
The Victoria and Albert Museum presents a monumental three-figure sculpture by Georg Baselitz, one of Germany’s most celebrated living artists, will be installed in the John Madejski Garden, on view 15 June – 8 September [Read More]
The Hillman Photography Initiative will serve as a living laboratory for photography, exploring the intersections among artistic practices and technological research. It will further these explorations by supporting the development of projects that break down [Read More]
Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, announced the appointment of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) to enhance and expand the landscape design of the institution’s 30-acre campus in the heart of Houston. The appointment [Read More]
Delfina Foundation announce Points of Departure on view 26 June–21 July 2013, the culmination of a year-long collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), ArtSchool Palestine and the British Council. Presented at the ICA, [Read More]
Whitechapel Gallery presents Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before? on view 18 June 2013 – 8 September 2013. A bear with soft fur made of fluffy chicken down forms the central work [Read More]
Trondheim Kunstmuseum presents Lips Painted Red: Strategies to Create and Maintain Female Identities & Teresa Burga an exhibition on view 22 June–15 September 2013. Lips Painted Red is a project examining how female identities are [Read More]
Havremagasinet – Boden Art Center presents Elemental an exhibition on view June 6–October 20, 2013. At the core of Elemental are not only select Icelandic artists, but Iceland altogether, with its special and indeed “elemental” [Read More]