“In the Beginning Was the Word”: Medieval Gospel Illumination The four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, among the most well-known texts in the Bible, offer powerful accounts of the life of Christ and [Read More]
The Allure of the Automobile at the Portland Art Museum has been drawing record crowds for a summer exhibition. The exhibition is the first time the Museum has allowed photography (without flash) in its special [Read More]
During the opening celebration of the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Museum Director Brian Ferriso announced Seattle artist John Grade as the recipient of the prestigious $10,000 Arlene Schnitzer Prize. The prize winner is chosen by [Read More]
14-Week Training Program to Begin Aug. 30 The Library of Congress is recruiting the 2011 class of volunteer docents to lead tours of the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution. To best serve the more than [Read More]
This selection of 300 images from the Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs portrays the people and landscape of a kingdom high in the Himalaya Mountains. Sikkim, now part of India, borders on [Read More]
A new display at the National Portrait Gallery in London will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Augustus John, one of the most celebrated British artists of the early 20th century. Regarded as [Read More]
The Library of Congress presents the 2011 National Book Festival, September 24-25 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are honorary chairs for the event. The festival is free [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced that the exhibition Art in the Streets, presented in the first year of MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch’s tenure at the museum, attracted 201,352 visitors from April [Read More]
Kunsthalle Bern presents Marianne Flotron – Work the first institutional solo exhibition of Swiss artist Marianne Flotron. The exhibition, on view 13 August–25 September 2011, will feature major recent works by the artist as well [Read More]
PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art presents My Way, a mid-career retrospective of the leading French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (b.1964, Saint-Étienne). This exhibition encompasses the artist’s unique artistic spectrum from the early works of the 1980s [Read More]
Museum Kunstpalast presents World Class. The Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918, exhibition on view 24 September 2011–22 January 2012. For half a century the Düsseldorf School of Painting was amongst the leading European schools of [Read More]
Retrospectives of Francesca Woodman, Rineke Djikstra, and Cindy Sherman One of the first museums to recognize photography as a legitimate art form and establish a photography collection, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) [Read More]
Columbus Views, an exhibition open from September 30, 2011 through Spring, 2012, celebrates the Bicentennial of the City of Columbus. The exhibition, drawn primarily from CMA’s collection, gathers works by artists such as George Bellows, [Read More]
The Air We Breathe – September 5, 2011–February 20, 2012 “Equality is in the air we breathe,” wrote Langston Hughes in Let America be America Again, a poem from 1938 that resonates even still. Over [Read More]
The Getty Museum announces the acquisition of 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts. Consisting of photographs of nudes, portraits, and images made for high-fashion ad campaigns, this acquisition is the most [Read More]
For the first time in this highly anticipated exhibition’s 20 year history, Primavera will be presented entirely outside the MCA, in various sites around Sydney’s historic Rocks precinct, located just behind the Museum. Curated by [Read More]
The Art Fund has helped the University of Manchester’s John Rylands University Library acquire the ‘missing’ seventh volume of a celebrated Renaissance manuscript. Pages from the Colonna Missal, John Rylands University Library The volume is [Read More]
Midway through its Bicentenary Jubilee Year, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria’s oldest museum, founded by Archduke Johann, is proud to present e.g., a cross-departmental project, conducted by Simon Starling & Superflex as a series of infiltrations within [Read More]