The Art Fund has helped Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums buy Meditation, a 1972 sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth. The sculpture originally belonged to Sir Norman Reid, an artist and former Director of the Tate, [Read More]
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The Art Institute of Chicago announced that Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Martha Tedeschi, both accomplished Art Institute curators with specialties in earlier prints and drawings and American modern prints and drawings, respectively, have been appointed [Read More]
Theaster Gates, recipient of the 2011–2012 Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship, explores the ways history, place and performance intersect in his new solo exhibition: Theaster Gates: The Listening Room. Opening [Read More]
Daylong symposium marks conclusion of special exhibition Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912 The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) hosts a major one-day symposium on early twentieth-century art in Scandinavia. Held in conjunction with the [Read More]
The symposium begins on Thursday, February 9, at 6:30 pm, with a lecture by Massimo Scolari, the William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture. This will be followed by [Read More]
The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University is pleased to present “The Epic and the Exotic: 19th-century Academic Realism from the Dahesh Museum of Art”, on view from January 14th through April [Read More]
The University of California, Davis, has received a $10 million gift to name a new art museum that will serve as a teaching and cultural resource for the region and provide opportunities to share the [Read More]
The National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea presents TELL ME TELL ME. Australian and Korean Art 1976–2011, on view 19 February 2012. This is the second stage of a two-part cultural exchange of art and [Read More]
SPECIAL EVENTS Highlights of the Collection Tour First Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm and all Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 pm • FREE with general museum admission Experience the UMFA galleries through a [Read More]
The Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends an exhibition on view 20 June 2012 – 16 September 2012. Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, copyright Andy Warhol Foundation The silk screen was the [Read More]
Dallas Contemporary presents DAVID JABLONOWSKI. Many to Many (Stone Carving High Performance). Open 17 December 2011 – 18 March 2012. David Jablonowski’s first North American solo exhibition entitled, Many to Many (Stone Carving High Performance), [Read More]
The Frick Collection has opened a new gallery—the first major addition to the museum in nearly thirty-five years. Located on the Fifth Avenue side of the historic mansion, it was created by enclosing a covered [Read More]
Museum Folkwang presents Evening of Time – Senores Naturales Yanomami an exhibition on view through 27 May, 2012. Sammlung Baumgarten/Sugai. Yanomami Ethnographica. Geflochtene Korbschalen mit ornamentaler Bemalung, 1979© Museum Folkwang und Lothar Baumgarten. At the [Read More]
The De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam presents Judaism. A World of Stories an exhibition on view 17 December 2011 – 15 April 2012. With more than five hundred objects on display, this exhibition will tell the [Read More]
The Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Ragamala Paintings from India: Poetry, Passion, Song, on view 25 January 2012 – 27 May 2012. A ragamala or ‘garland of ragas’ is a set of miniature paintings depicting various [Read More]
On December 15, in the presence of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani and more than 700 dignitaries and special guests, Qatar Museums Authority inaugurated the MIA Park, a new cultural destination [Read More]
Medi(t)ation – 2011 Asian Art Biennial is now showing at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. The theme Medi(t)ation is a concept that reflects the trend across Asia towards an M-shaped societal structure and [Read More]
The Crocker Art Museum presents American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell an exhibition on view NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – FEBRUARY 3, 2013. Norman Rockwell, Triple Self-Portrait, 1960. The Saturday Evening Post Cover. Oil on [Read More]