The Philadelphia Museum of Art has acquired the painting Yarrow Mamout, 1819, an exceptionally rare portrait of an African-American by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), one of the most renowned American artists of the late 18th [Read More]
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Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery presents The Art Books of Henri Matisse an exhibition on view 21 October 2011 – 15 April 2012. The exhibition comprises 63 framed original illustrations with text from four of Matisse’s [Read More]
In April the Board of the Founders of Fondazione Museion confirmed Letizia Ragaglia as director of the museum for the next four years. Curator at various institutions, Ragaglia (1969, I), who is specialised in museology [Read More]
The National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with France’s Musée des beaux-arts de Caen, presents Drawn to Art. French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th Century Rome a new exhibition on view October 21, 2011 [Read More]
The Glyptotek Museum presents Gauguin & Polynesia – An elusive paradise on view through 31.12 2011, where visitors can experience Paul Gauguin’s masterpieces side by side with the ”primitive” art of Polynesia. This autumn the [Read More]
The Block Museum of Art presents Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917. On view through December 11, 2011, in the Alsdorf Gallery. Tango with Cows chronicles the dramatic transformation of book [Read More]
The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents 30 Americans an exhibition on view through February 12, 2012. The exhibition 30 Americans, presents a wide-ranging survey of works by many of the most important African American contemporary [Read More]
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art presents the UK premier of A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, a remarkable collaboration between renowned American artists and longtime friends Mike Kelley and Michael Smith. Exhibition on view Thursday [Read More]
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents Andrea Dezso Haunted Ridgefield. A Halloween-Inspired Main Street Sculpture Project Artist Reception and Community Trick-Or-Treat Monday, October 31, 2011; 4 to 8 pm. Andrea Dezsö, “Sometimes In My Dreams [Read More]
A Mountain Landscape with an Approaching Storm and A Grand View of the Sea Shore On View at the Dallas Museum of Art through December 11, 2011 Two landscape paintings by eighteenth-century French master Claude-Joseph [Read More]
Winnipeg Art Gallery presents New Art from Cape Dorset in an exhibition on view October 8, 2011 to April 8, 2012. Ningeokuluk Teevee, Sea Goddess, 2010 This exhibition features drawings and sculptures created by second- [Read More]
The Great Plains Art Museum presents V. . . . Vaughan’s “Passing America: The Great Plains” plein air painting series exploring America from the passenger seat. On view October 7 — December 11, 2011. V. [Read More]
The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) presents William Kurelek: The Messenger on view to December 31, 2011. William Kurelek, Zaporozhian Cossacks, 1952. Throughout a 20-year career that spanned from roughly the mid-1950s until his death, William [Read More]
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea presents Art of Communication, Anri Sala, Yang Ah Ham, Philippe Parreno, Jorge Pardo on view 18 October–4 December 2011. Contemporary art is a guidepost of social trends. The [Read More]
The Ellen Noel Art Museum presents Beyond Paper Folding. The Art of Joan Son The exhibition will run through November 13, 2011. Joan Son, a celebrated paper and origami artist, focuses on the natural elements [Read More]
First retrospective of the artist in the West made possible by partnership with the Nanjing Museum in China The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904–1965) on [Read More]
The Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre in London presents George Condo: Mental States on view 18 October 2011–8 January 2012. The Hayward Gallery brings to London the first major retrospective exhibition of the American [Read More]
Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome is on view at the Kimbell October 16, 2011–January 8, 2012. Caravaggio, Martha and Mary Magdalene, c. 1598, oil and tempera on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts. Gift of [Read More]