The Kimbell Art Museum has announced one of the most important acquisitions in its history: French painter Nicolas Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination (Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter). Nicolas Poussin, The Sacrament of Ordination [Read More]
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Two major Japanese exhibitions of artists whose works reflect the vitality and interests of 19th-century Edo (now Tokyo) will open at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in March 2012, coinciding with the National Cherry [Read More]
Kunsthallen Brandts Presents Asgar & Gabriel Under the Paving Stones, the Beach on view 9 September–4 December 2011. Asgar & Gabriel, “In der hohen Wellen unsere Abenteuer,” 2010. Asgar and Gabriel deliver sharp social satire [Read More]
Bonnefantenmuseum presents Extended Drawing an exhibition featuring Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra on view 18 September 2011–15 January 2012. Extended Drawing focuses on a specific aspect of the work of American artists [Read More]
The MUSEION of modern and contemporary art Bolzano presents Works by Carl Andre. on view 17 September 2011– 8 January 2012. The exhibition is a cooperation between Museion and the Kurhaus Museum, Kleve, where it [Read More]
Kunsthaus Graz presents Ai Weiwei Interlacing, open 17 September 2011–15 January 2012. Opening: 17 September 2011, 11am. The first large-scale exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s photographic and video work—taken over from the Fotomuseum Winterthur—puts the spotlight [Read More]
To mark the artist’s 100th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler presents an exhibition of about twenty works, including sculptures from every decade of her career, on view 3.9.2011 – 8.1.2012. This outstanding selection addresses central themes [Read More]
The Arlington Museum of Art presents “Points of View”, an exhibition on view through SEPTEMBER 30, 2011, in which five artists interpret their world with distinctive points of view through Oils, Acrylics, Watercolor, Mixed Media [Read More]
A self portrait by the popular Scottish artist Jack Vettriano is going on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Self Portrait V has been loaned to the museum by a private owner. It is [Read More]
The Fotomuseum Winterthur presents Shirana Shahbazi – Much like Zero a photographs exhibition, on view 03.09.-13.11.2011. How real or abstract is photography? This question has preoccupied photography since its inception. As early as 1859 Oliver [Read More]
The Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale will present “¡Adelante! Mexican American Artists: 1960s and Beyond,” a collection of works by an array of talented Mexican American artists, many who helped forge the Chicano Art Movement [Read More]
National Tour of Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections Pays Homage to the Artist and His Southern Influences This fall The Mint Museum will present Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections, a major retrospective of one of America’s most [Read More]
Artists Simon Fujiwara, Anthony Key, Dave Lewis, Nina Mangalanayagam and Navin Rawanchaikul reflect on the complexities of living with more than one culture. Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) presents an inter-generational exhibition at Rivington [Read More]
DAM brings together 70 works by the famed artist to reveal key steps in his artistic evolution Becoming Van Gogh, an in-depth exploration of Vincent van Gogh’s unconventional path to becoming one of the world’s [Read More]
The Toledo Museum of Art’s Apollo Society has acquired the compelling photograph La Grande Odalisque, by Lalla Essaydi, which references Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ famous 1814 reclining nude, La Grande Odalisque. That oil painting, residing in the [Read More]
The Woodmere Art Museum presents Violet Oakley: The Building of the House of Wisdom an exhibition on view September 25, 2011 – November 6, 2011. In 1910–11, Violet Oakley collaborated with architect Frank Miles Day [Read More]
The Woodmere Art Museum presents Flirting with Abstraction: Modern and Contemporary Art of Philadelphia Exhibition in the Promised Gift of Karen Segal and Woodmere’s Collection on view September 25, 2011 – January 8, 2012. Flirting [Read More]
The Woodmere Art Museum presents Announces Mary G. L. Hood and Philadelphia Modernism, on view September 25, 2011 – January 8, 2012. Women artists were central to the evolution of modern art in twentieth-century Philadelphia. [Read More]