As a counterpoint to the presentation at the Louvre of the first retrospective in France devoted to the Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), the museum plays host to a group of sculptures by [Read More]
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The Albertina presents Roy Lichtenstein: Black & White 1961 – 1968 on view 28 January 2011 – 15 May 2011. The 1960s marked a dramatic change of direction in the art of Roy Lichtenstein: while [Read More]
The Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, in accordance with its desire to support creation and research in contemporary art and thought, announces a call for entries for a series of grants. The objective of this initiative, [Read More]
Choreographer Sarah Michelson and playwright/director Richard Maxwell are both known for strangely transfixing, fiercely uncompromising productions. While Michelson is acclaimed for visually striking, expansive spectacles such as Daylight (For Minneapolis)–a Walker premiere in 2005–the aesthetic [Read More]
“Artists in Dialogue 2: Sandile Zulu and Henrique Oliveira” will be on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from Feb. 2 through Dec. 4. It is the second in a series of [Read More]
Berkeley Art Museum Presents Indeterminate Stillness: Looking at Whistler on view January 26, 2011 – April 17, 2011. James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), the expatriate American artist, was a prolific and innovative painter, watercolorist, and printmaker. Throughout [Read More]
The New Museum presents a major survey of works by George Condo on view 1/26/11 – 5/8/11. George Condo has been a singular voice in American and European art for almost three decades. Born in [Read More]
The Contemporary Arts Center presents Jimmy Baker: Remote Viewing on view February 26 – April 10, 2011 Opening Celebration: Friday, February 25. The work in the show combines traditional painting techniques with digital printing. The [Read More]
To celebrate Pablo Picasso’s personal collection and its Richmond arrival, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is hosting an Opening Night Benefit on Saturday, February 19. The landmark exhibition, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National [Read More]
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will be developing its Boulevard sign in phases. An institutional identifying sign will be installed first, which will be composed of a stainless steel armature with a panel of [Read More]
A selection of important objects by artist Charles Prendergast (1863–1948) will be on display starting Thursday, January 27. To frame historians, the name Charles Prendergast is a hallowed one. To art historians, he is a [Read More]
The Nationalgalerie in the Hamburger Bahnhof presents SOME SCENIC VIEWS on view until February 6, 2011. The show comprises eight works by Philipp Lachenmann. The works, from the areas of video, film, photography, sculpture and [Read More]
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a plate painted by Pablo Picasso from David Douglas Duncan, a photojournalist whose archive resides at [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp presents Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner: A Syntax of Dependency on view 03 February – 22 May 2011. For more than twenty years now, New York-based artists Liam Gillick [Read More]
The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main hosts the final leg of the traveling retrospective, Felix Gonzalez-Torres Specific Objects without Specific Form, on view 29 January – 25 April 2011. Including both rarely [Read More]
The Riverside Art Museum Presents presents A Touch of Color: A PNET exhibition on view through March 4, 2011. RAM’s affiliate artist group, the Printmakers Network (PNET), is proud to present A Touch of Color. [Read More]
Clara Kim has been named Senior Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center, effective August 1. Kim is currently Gallery Director and Curator of REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) in Los Angeles. [Read More]
The LSU Museum of Art is to present The 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, May 29 – July 10, 2011. The 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition features over 100 shoebox-sized sculptures by a large number [Read More]