At its quarterly meeting on October 26, 2010, the Board of Trustees of the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia voted unanimously to deaccession thirteen paintings by the British artist Walter Greaves (1846-1930). Deaccessioning is [Read More]
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Haus der Kunst announced the appointment of Okwui Enwezor as the next director of Haus der Kunst. Enwezor will take up the position in October 2011. He will succeed Chris Dercon, the outgoing director who [Read More]
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum announce the implementation of a new curatorial programming schedule that will exclusively present seasons of simultaneous solo artist exhibitions, all linked by one common theme. This new program will debut [Read More]
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents The Treasury: The Splendor of Liturgical Objects on view through February 24, 2011. Churches and abbeys, which served as centers of monastic life during the Middle Ages (1000–1500), sprang [Read More]
Walker Exhibition The Spectacular of Vernacular Features Artists Who Utilize Craft, Incorporate Folklore, and Revel in Roadside Kitsch In an era of virtual neighborhoods and fast-paced Internet communication, the Walker Art Center exhibition The Spectacular [Read More]
The Worcester Art Museum presents Place as Idea on view through February 13, 2011. Place as Idea explores the idea of place as a vehicle for visualizing time, displacement, memory, and fantasy in works by [Read More]
The State Museum of Contemporary Art presents The Cosmos of the Russian Avant-Garde: Art and Space Exploration, 1900-1930 on view through 27 March 2011. The Costakis Collection of the State Museum of Contemporary Art is [Read More]
Tate Modern presents Gabriel Orozco on view 19 January – 25 April 2011. This retrospective of the leading Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco (b 1962) will be the largest presentation of his most critically acclaimed works [Read More]
The Helmut Newton Foundation extended it’s ‘Alice Springs’ Exhibition until 15 May 2011. With the exhibition ‘alice springs’, the berlin-based helmut newton foundation has been presenting the first retrospective of june newton on an international [Read More]
The Kunsthalle Zürich launches its exhibition season at the Museum Bärengasse – where it is based temporarily until June 2012 while work is carried out on the conversion and renovation of its permanent home at [Read More]
Heralding the role of design in profound societal change – in this case in India, the world’s most rapidly growing economy – Cornell University presents “Unpacking the Nano,” an exhibit highlighting Tata Motors’ Nano automobile, [Read More]
The Hood Museum of Art has announced the following upcoming exhibitions, dates and descriptions may be subject to change. Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art Opens February 12, 2011 The [Read More]
The Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art presents Lincoln 1861 – 1865: A Print Series by Tomás Lasansky on view through Sunday, June 26, 2011 in the Booth Lobby Gallery. Starting in 2006, Lasansky [Read More]
The de Saisset Museum presents Contemporary Native Works from the Permanent Collection, on view January 15 – February 11, 2011. In conjunction with Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home: Art and Poetry from Native [Read More]
The de Saisset Museum presents LandsCApes: Glimpses of Everyday California on view January 15 thrugh January 28, 2011. We live in a fast-paced world where cell phones, email, Wi-Fi, and Twitter keep us constantly connected. [Read More]
The de Saisset Museum presents The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces on view January 15 – March 11, 2011. This traveling exhibition features more than thirty works of art that explore the veil in its [Read More]
Seattle patrons of the arts Charles and Emma Frye were passionate supporters of music as well as the visual arts. Through historical photographs of their art collection as it was presented in their home and [Read More]
This first art exhibition and museum project showcasing Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE), a groundbreaking performance company, was conceived and executed over a two-year process of dialogue and close collaboration between Frye Art Museum curator Robin [Read More]