Gift from the estate of Otto N. Frenzel III fulfills required match gift for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $1.75 million grant awarded in 2008 A $1.5 million gift from the estate of Otto N. [Read More]
Fine Art
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The WIELS Contemporary Art Centre presents ven Augustijnen Spectres 0n Sunday 8 May, 11 am–2 pm. In collaboration with Kunstenfestivaldesarts, WIELS presents Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen’s new project around his feature film Spectres (102 min). [Read More]
Bank of America announced the launch of The Art Conservation Project, a major initiative to help conserve important works of art and cultural treasures across the United States. The Art Conservation Project will provide grants [Read More]
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan is pleased to announce that Hong-Kai Wang and Yu-Hsien Su will represent Taiwan at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The Taiwan Pavilion, at [Read More]
ArtSway, the innovative contemporary art gallery based in England’s New Forest, in collaboration with the Arts University College at Bournemouth, presents ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion. Gayle Chong Kwan’s installation The Obsidian Isle explores ideas of [Read More]
From 6 May to 5 June 2011, artist Yang Jiechang will show three works under the title of Stranger than Paradise. With this exhibition, the artist uses the figure of the animal, the landscape and [Read More]
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology announce the selection of the 2011 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. Following an international search, the Gardner Fellowship committee awarded the Fellowship to Miki Kratsman, a prize-winning Argentinean-born [Read More]
The Blanton Museum presents About Face: Portraiture as Subject, open April 30 – September 4, 2011. About Face: Portraiture as Subject, a unique exhibition organized by The Blanton, features 40 portraits in diverse mediums from [Read More]
The Tyler Museum of Art presents a selection of oil paintings by Sedrick Huckaby, a Texas artist who uses thick, impasto paint to create his shape-shifting quilt murals, evocative of tradition, family and his own [Read More]
The Kemper Museum presents Acquisitions in Context an exhibition of work by Eric Forstmann, on view April 29–August 14, 2011. Admission to the Museum is free. Reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s works of isolation, Eric Forstmann [Read More]
The exhibition Art in Cameroon: Sculptural Dialogues highlights two iconic works in the Neuberger Museum’s African art collection from the Cameroon Grassfields: an expressive nineteenth-century carved Bangwa figure in wood attributed to a master carver [Read More]
New exhibition highlights through art and photography the history and impact of aviation, from the first hot air balloon ride to space exploration The fantasies and realities of flight and space exploration, as depicted through [Read More]
The exhibition Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life—on view April 30 through July 10, 2011, at the Art Institute of Chicago—takes a long overdue look at these well-handled works, demonstrating how their [Read More]
The Vero Beach Museum of Art presents Impressions: Selections from the Manoogian Collection, on view through May 22, 2011. This exhibition brings together a group of 14 paintings, some of which are old friends that [Read More]
Black Tears is a ten-year survey of one of Mexico’s leading artists, Betsabeé Romero. On view April 30, 2011 – August 14, 2011. Self-described as a “mechanic artist,” Romero draws on Pre-Columbian iconography, colonial imagery, [Read More]
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) announces its Spring Open Studios, a four-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 36 artists, artist collectives and curators from 25 countries currently in residence at ISCP will [Read More]
SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam hosts ARTISTS IN PUBLIC # 3 Interfering With Reality: Mike Bonnano (The Yes Men) and Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas on Friday May 27 [Read More]
Moderna Museet in Stockholm presents an exhibition of work by Klara Lidén, on view 4 May–9 October 2011. Public exhibition opening—everyone welcome! Stockholm, Friday, 13 May, 6–8 pm. Moderna Museet is the first museum in [Read More]