In conjunction with The Phillips Collection’s 90th anniversary celebration in 2011, Washington-based, internationally recognized artist Sam Gilliam creates a site-specific work for the museum’s signature, elliptical staircase, on view Jan. 29–April 24, 2011. Sam Gilliam. [Read More]
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Filippino Lippi (1457-1504) is one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who in 1487 contracted the artist to decorate his funerary chapel in [Read More]
Walters Art Museum Advance Exhibition Schedule for 2011. Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe February 13–May 15, 2011 Medieval Christians venerated saints; their bodily remains were often displayed in special containers, [Read More]
Tate and Unilever announced that Tacita Dean will undertake the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. The work will be unveiled on 11 October 2011. Tacita Dean is [Read More]
The Portland Museum of Art presents Weston: Leaves of Grass open December 30, 2010 – March 13, 2011. In early 1941, Edward Weston was approached by the Limited Editions Club of New York and invited [Read More]
The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Barbara Kruger: Circus on view December 15, 2010 – January 30, 2011. The US-American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger has created a new, publicly accessible installation for the Rotunda of the [Read More]
Inside the eclectic Centro Asturianas, the Colecion de Arte Universal of Havana’s El Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes displays a row of ancient Greek statues. Behind the gazes of the white granite statues, contrasting styles [Read More]
The High Museum of Art has been selected to partner with ArtBabble.org, an online art initiative that allows the Museum to post its art video content to an ever-growing online community. Launched by the Indianapolis [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum’s concurrent presentation of three acclaimed and widely attended special exhibitions over the summer 2010 season—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú, and American [Read More]
The Worcester Art Museum presents Goya and the Bullfight, open December 18, 2010 – April 17, 2011. From the onset of the nineteenth century until his death in 1828, Francisco Goya presented the subject of [Read More]
The Worcester Art Museum presents Wall at WAM: Charline von Heyl. Charline von Heyl has described her drive towards abstraction as the desire to invent something that cannot be named and that challenges the eye [Read More]
The Fundacion Botin presents Mona Hatoum Le Grand Monde, on view through 9 January 2011. After her stay in Villa Iris, where she led an international workshop in July, the Foundation organizes Booty autumn Le [Read More]
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) announce a gift of the collection of art by women from Philadelphia art collector and artist Linda Lee Alter. This important collection, formed by an extraordinary person [Read More]
Ordrupgaard presents Encountering Japan. Degas, Monet, Gauguin… on view through 23.January 2011. Few people know that the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, like Monet, Degas and Gauguin, were inspired by Japanese wood cuts. Utagawa Kuniyoshi, The [Read More]
The Norton Museum of Art presents Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation open December 12, 2010 – March 6, 2011. Comprising 93 photographs by over 50 photographers, this exhibition is drawn from [Read More]
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Karthik Pandian: Unearth open from December 15th 2010. Los Angeles-based artist Karthik Pandian uses 16mm film and architectural constructions to examine the relationship between ancient and modern cultures [Read More]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Monumental “Miniatures”: Large-scale Paintings from India open through April 2011. The so-called “miniature” paintings of India, like their Persian counterparts, were made in sets to illustrate stories and were [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow—the first major international exhibition devoted to the cosmopolitan culture of the northern Indian court of Lucknow, and the [Read More]