The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has commissioned a photographic portrait of food pioneer Alice Waters, founder of the Chez Panisse Restaurant and Cafe, the Edible Schoolyard and champion of the Slow Food movement. The portrait [Read More]
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Works by Munch, Hammershøi, and other pioneers of Nordic Modernism featured in retrospective celebrating centennial of American-Scandinavian Foundation Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912, an international loan exhibition of paintings by Edvard Munch, [Read More]
Asheville Art Museum presents “Color Study” an exhibition on view through Sunday, November 6, 2011 in the Appleby Foundation Gallery. Color has often been treated with reserve. Aristotle believed color’s role was ornamental and supplementary [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum presents Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist’s Journey through Amnesia, on view September 17–December 11, 2011. The Walters is partnering with the Cognitive Science Department of the Zanvyl Krieger School of [Read More]
The Chinese Arts Centre presents EVERYTHING MUST GO A new project by Foreign Investment, on view 5 August–17 September 2011. Everything Must Go is a playful new project by the artist group Foreign Investment. This [Read More]
Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art Presents Swalif: Qatari Art Between Momory and Modernity, on view 14 August to 29 October 2011. This exhibition celebrates more than twenty of Qatar’s most influential artists and four [Read More]
The 8th Hiroshima Art Prize THE ROAD OF HOPE YOKO ONO 2011 30 July–16 October 2011 In 1989 the city of Hiroshima, first place in the world to suffer a nuclear attack, established the Hiroshima [Read More]
The Walker Art Center presents Pedro Reyes Baby Marx on view August 11–November 27, 2011. The Walker presents the latest phase and first US exhibition of Baby Marx, an ongoing project by Mexican artist Pedro [Read More]
The Sheldon Museum of Artalong with a number of statewide partners, is producing a new publication that will tell the story of the visual arts in Nebraska. This magazine, to be released twice a year, [Read More]
George Eastman House presents The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, on view from October 1, 2011 through February 19, 2012 in the Brackett–Clark Gallery. All eyes will be on George Eastman House [Read More]
The National Portrait Gallery presents Road to 2012 : A Local Story an exhibition of striking new photographs of people from East London community groups who are working with the National Portrait Gallery opens on [Read More]
ARTIST CHUCK CLOSE TO BE HONORED BY THE KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART AT 2011 HIMMEL AWARD AND LECTURE Established in 2009, the annual Katonah Museum Himmel Award & Lecture honors an outstanding leader who has [Read More]
The Studio Museum in Harlem announce the 2011–12 artists in resi- dence: Njideka Akunyili, Meleko Mokgosi and Xaviera Simmons. Since its founding in 1968, the Studio Museum has held a strong commitment to nurturing and [Read More]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents an exhibition of Prints by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, on view from Monday 01 August 2011. The exhibition presents a selection of prints by painter and print master [Read More]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Playing the City 3 on 11–25 August 2011. Playing the City—take three. From August 11 to August 25, 2011, more than fifteen international artists will occupy the inner city of Frankfurt [Read More]
Storm King Art Center today announced the acquisition of The Pietrarubbia Group: il fondamento, l’uso, il rapporto (1975–76), a major large-scale work by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro. The sculpture is a gift of long- time [Read More]
The Heckscher Museum of Art presents Earth Matters, an environmental art exhibition featuring the works of selected Long Island artists. This extraordinary exhibition, which includes an installation outside the Museum walls, on view July 30 [Read More]
North by New York: New Nordic Art, a focused international loan exhibition of contemporary Scandinavian art, closes to the public on August 19, 2011. On view at Scandinavia House, New York City, and organized by [Read More]