The Museum of Modern Art Modern presents An Evening with Bill Basquin, on October 24, 7:00 p.m. The work of San Francisco–based filmmaker, photographer, and installation artist Bill Basquin explores the intersection of rural and [Read More]
John Singleton Copley portrait part of larger reinstallation of American Collections Galleries The Milwaukee Art Museum has acquired the portrait Alice Hooper, a major colonial American painting by John Singleton Copley (1738–1815). Copley is recognized [Read More]
The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum is facing the threat of closure in 2012. Since December 18, 1977, the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum at 203 Amity Street, in West Baltimore, has been [Read More]
The Fair Gallery / de Appel arts centre present Curating in the Gallery field: A prelude to the Gallerist Programme a short intensive workshop by The Fair Gallery. The Gallerist Programme is a new project [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art Modern presents An Evening with Mohamed Soueid on October 17, 7:00 p.m. In conjunction with Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part II, Mohamed Soueid [Read More]
The National Portrait Gallery has bought American artist Alex Katz’s bold portrait of Anna Wintour, Editor in Chief of American VOGUE with the help of the Art Fund. The work, which was unveiled at the [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art Modern presents An Evening with Harun Farockion October 3, 7:00 p.m. In conjunction with the exhibition Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance), the artist’s first solo exhibition at [Read More]
Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac presents Mircea Cantor More Cheeks Than Slaps, on view 16 September–18 December 2011. Opening: 15 September, 5–9 pm. The end of transparency in art plays a great role [Read More]
The MOSAICS Festival is THE premiere Art Festival in the St. Charles area. MOSAICS is a FREE 3-day “family friendly” festival event which will feature 110+ artists from the St. Louis region, as well as [Read More]
Exhibition reveals one theme of the Museum’s African collection reinstallation BALTIMORE, MD – Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa brings together more than 80 artworks from the BMA’s collection that skillfully merge artistry with utility. [Read More]
The Smithsonian Latino Center and the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies present “The Sounds of American Sabor Family Celebration” Saturday, Sept. 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m in the Ripley Center’s International [Read More]
Opening at the Walters on Oct. 16, 2011, this exhibition reveals texts from the ancient world discovered by conserving and imaging The Archimedes Palimpsest – The Archimedes Palimpsest contains the remains of seven erased books, [Read More]
To mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, National Geographic has released A PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE: Official Book of the National September 11 Memorial ($19.95), in bookstores. In concert with the book release, the [Read More]
On September 17 – 18, contemporary art will find a dynamic new home at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), when the Museum unveils the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. Located in the [Read More]
The Cafesjian Center for the Arts Opens Victor Vasarely Optical Perspectives from September 10th, the exhibition includes a selection of 44 prints from the Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection will represent various periods of Vasarely’s legacy. [Read More]
THe Montclair Art Museum presents Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies, and Others, on view September 17, 2011 – January 8, 2012. This is the inaugural exhibition in the Montclair Art Museum’s New Directions series. Curated by [Read More]
THe Montclair Art Museum (MAM) presents What is Portraiture? an exhibition on view now through Sunday, November 6, 2011. Peter Jacobs (b. 1960), Darwin, 1997, Mixed media collage, 49 ¼ x 49 ¼ x 2 [Read More]
Bonniers Konsthall presentsUlla von Brandenburg and Malin Pettersson Öberg Chorspiel and Sterescopic Scenography, on view 17 September–30 October 2011 in the Spetsen Gallery. Ulla von Brandenburg, “Chorspiel,” 2010. Still from film. As part of Bonniers [Read More]