OPENING EXHIBITION Transcending Vision: American Impressionism, 1870-1940 May 14 – September 25, 2011 Featuring 125 works drawn from the Bank of America Collection, “Transcending Vision” traces the development of Impressionism in the United States and [Read More]
First Impressions: Photographs by Don Sichler opened in the Museum’s Upper Gallery on Sunday, March 13, on view through April 24. After taking a break from photography for 20 years, Don Sichler, who had been [Read More]
The Autry National Center celebrates Earth Day with an outdoor festival designed to inspire simple changes for a healthier planet. Drawing on Native cultures and traditions, this family-friendly event includes local environmental groups, community organizations, [Read More]
The new Perot Museum of Nature and Science has held topping out ceremonies, in downtown Dallas. Recalling the years when many dismissed the idea of a new science museum in Dallas, longtime board member David [Read More]
The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents To Make a World George Ault and 1940s America, on view now through September 5, 2011. During the turbulent 1940s, artist George Ault (1891-1948) created precise yet eerie pictures—works [Read More]
Fraserburgh Winners Displayed at Lighthouse Focus Environment, Chevron’s photography competition exhibition, is currently on display at The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses until 6th April. The exhibition includes winners from Fraserburgh. Focus Environment is an environmental [Read More]
The Opens Calder’s Portraits A New Language in Washington presents Calder’s Portraits: A New Language on view, March 11, through August 14, 2011. Best known for his abstract mobiles and stabiles, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was [Read More]
Celebrating its 30th year, Art Alive is the Museum’s preeminent fundraiser and one of the longest running and most widely attended events of its kind in the United States. The unique exhibition of floral arrangements [Read More]
The Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos presents J. D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere Moments of Beauty, open 15 April– 27 November 2011. The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos presents Moments of Beauty, a groundbreaking exhibition of work [Read More]
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) MATRIX 237 Jill Magid: Closet Drama on view March 20–June 12, 2011. Jill Magid’s work involves infiltrating systems of authority and power to explore issues of vulnerability, [Read More]
The McKissick Museum presents Walter Inglis Anderson: Everything I See is New and Strange, exhibition open through May 7, 2011. Walter Inglis Anderson’s distinctive and timeless works of the plants, animals, and people of the [Read More]
The McKissick Museum presents Beyond Domesticity: U.S. Women Writers, 1770-1915 Rare Books and Special Collections, Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library on view April 30, 2011. Popular conceptions of women’s literature before the First World [Read More]
The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments, on view March 11–May 15, 2011. Amplified Moments is the first major US exhibition to survey the work of Xiaoze Xie (pronounced shout-zah shee-ay), an [Read More]
One of the world’s foremost collections of decorated Jewish marriage contracts (ketubbot) is held by The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. Thirty of the finest will be on display at [Read More]
The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art presents Size Matters: A group exhibition that addresses ideas of scale through physical and conceptual explorations, on view Mar. 12 – Jun. 18, 2011. Size matters insofar as [Read More]
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) celebrates this revelation in Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image, its first large-scale exhibition devoted entirely to electronic and time-based media. Focusing on artwork from the past 30 years, [Read More]
In association with The Power Plant – Refresh, the gallery reopens to the public with three new exhibitions: two by internationally-acclaimed artists Thomas Hirschhorn and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and one group show featuring younger artists from [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster 1964-1966, on view March 13, 2011–June 5, 2011. Painter Vija Celmins, born in 1938 in Riga, Latvia, has lived and worked primarily [Read More]