Strategic Additions to SFMOMA’s Collection Support Plans to Expand the Museum and Transform the Visitor Experience The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced that it has received an unprecedented 195 promised gifts of [Read More]
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A written work of art, a text that becomes a work of art? Is it a carefully thought of process that can only find accuracy in the written form or is it more the other [Read More]
Paris, The BNP Paribas Foundation and BNP Paribas Australia are supporting the restoration of a masterpiece by Nicolas Poussin, part of the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. As part of a program [Read More]
The Newark Museum presents Posing Beauty African American Images From the 1890s to the Present on view through 04.28.2011. Posing Beauty explores the ways in which African American beauty has been represented in the media [Read More]
On Feb. 2, 2011, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opened Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab, the first solo museum exhibition of the artist’s work in the U.S. Using familiar [Read More]
The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces two concurrent exhibitions of photography. “In a New York Minute: Photographs by Helen Levitt” and “Paths through the Global City: Photographs by Leo Rubinfien” open February 2, [Read More]
Kunsthalle Bern presents Moshekwa Langa Marhumbini – In Another Time open 5 February – 27 March 2011. Moshekwa Langa’s art is amongst the most difficult to pigeonhole. “People can’t reconcile my idiosyncratic views with their [Read More]
The Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art presents Rabih Mroué: The Inhabitants of Images on view February 5 – April 23, 2011. Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué creates performance-based video installations that examine the powerful influence that [Read More]
The Portland Museum of Art presents John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury open June 23, 2011 – October 10, 2011. John Marin sought Maine as a subject—its islands, mountains, beaches, and rocky shores—from 1917 onward. However, [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum presents Realistic Perfection: The Making of Oriental Ceramic Art on view March 12–June 4, 2011. In 1889, William Walters commissioned Louis Prang & Co., the foremost practitioners of the art of [Read More]
The Mauritshuis has acquired the exceptional history painting, Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown by Jan Steen (1626-1679), from a private collection. Jan Steen (1626-1679), Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown, c.1670, Canvas, 78 x79 cm. Royal Picture Gallery [Read More]
The High Museum of Art will continue its collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), with the exclusive presentation of the major exhibition “Picasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern Masters” beginning October 2011. [Read More]
The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) presents Jasper Johns The Traces of Memory on view through Apr 24, 2011. Exhibitions devoted to Jasper Johns are rare in general and even less frequent in Europe. [Read More]
Generali Foundation presents unExhibit on view 4 February – 17 July 2011. unExhibit takes the legendary show an Exhibit by Richard Hamilton, or more properly by the Independent Group, held at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon [Read More]
Kunsthaus Graz presents Anti/Form Sculptures from the MUMOK Collection on view 5 February – 15 May 2011, Opening: 4 February 2011, 7pm The term “anti-form” in the 1960s represented the abandonment of the traditional concept [Read More]
The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) Presents Victoria Civera Slanting dreams open Feb 03 – Apr 17, 2011. This exhibition is not so much a mid-career coverage of Vicky Civera’s work over the last [Read More]
Google has unveiled the Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Over [Read More]
The Goldstein Museum of Design presents small architecture, BIG LANDSCAPES on view through March 6, 2011 at HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, Minneapolis Campus. One billion leftover people—typically called squatters or self-builders or homeless (it’s a [Read More]