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| Cantor Arts Center at Stanford Announces Exhibition Pop to Present: Art of the 1960s |
David Park (USA, 1911-1960), “The Jazz Musicians,” 1954. Oil on masonite board 35 1/2 x 45 1/4 inches. Cantor Arts Center, Gift of Peter and Kirsten Bedford. (Detail)
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STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces “Pop to Present,” March 18-August 16, 2009, the third in a yearlong series of exhibitions highlighting the museum's acquisitions from the past decade. This lively selection of modern and contemporary works - in particular American ...More
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| MOCA Board of Trustees Votes to Accept Broad Foundation Challenge Grant |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) Board of Trustees announced today they have voted overwhelmingly to accept a $15 million challenge grant from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation for endowment replenishment. In addition, The Broad Foundation will provide exhibition support of
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| Montmartre at the Turn of the Century, Valadon and Utrillo: From Impressionism to the School of Paris |
PARIS.- The Pinacothèque de Paris is putting on an important exhibition of works by Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo. This exhibition will take place between March 6th and September 15th, 2009, and will show about fifty works by each of these artists....More
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| Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe to Open Next Year at Chicago's MCA |
CHICAGO, IL.- This spring, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, the first major American exhibition in decades devoted to the visionary mind and work of Buckminster Fuller, and the most inclusive show to date of Fuller’s work. On view from March 14 to June 21,...More
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| MOCA Director Jeremy Strick Steps Down; Supports New Leadership after Nine Years at the Helm |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Recognizing that MOCA will benefit from new leadership at this pivotal moment in the organization’s history, Director Jeremy Strick today submitted his resignation to the Board of Trustees. During Strick’s nine years guiding MOCA, the museum made unprecedented achievements in building its collections, advancing ...More
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| Kunstmuseum Basel to Show Pablo Picasso: Prints Early Next Year |
BASEL.- Pablo Picasso applied himself with great intensity to the specific possibilities of print techniques. From woodcuts and etchings to lithographs and linoleum cuts, he employed every known printing method with stupendous ease and mastery, developing complex mixed techniques and experimenting with polychrome prints. He created his first etching, Le Repas frugal, in 1904. An ...More
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| MoMA Receives Grant from Leon Levy Foundation to Establish P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center Archives |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art has received a two-year grant from The Leon Levy Foundation, which will allow for the organizing and processing of the institutional records of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Museum’s affiliate in Long Island City, Queens, as well as support MoMA's efforts to begin an oral ...More
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| Christie's Open House Sale Presents Exciting Array of Post-War & Contemporary Art |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s New York will kick off 2009 with the fourth edition of the Open House sale on January 12. This season's Open House displays an exciting array of Post-War & Contemporary Art and will include an assortment of paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs from both well-known and ...More
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| Leopold Kessler Presents a Selection of his Videos at Malmo Konsthall |
MALMO.- Some of Kessler’s public interventions are very visible, such as when he increases the pressure of the water jets of fountains so that they spray beyond the basin. Others, such as Perforation (2007) and Invented tradition (2008) are almost invisible in the urban space. These minimal works and interventions, such as bullet holes made with homemade pliers in street signs or a ...More
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| Suzanne Delehanty Appointed Director of Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers |
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- Suzanne Delehanty, founding director of the Miami Art Museum and currently head of an independent arts consultant service, has been named director of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
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| Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London |
WILMINGTON.- The Delaware Art Museum will present Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London, an exhibition of superb Victorian paintings drawn from the collection at Royal Holloway, University of London. The majority of the 60 canvases – amassed in the late 1800s in a ...More
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| Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art to Open Learning to Love You More in January |
GATESHEAD.- From Friday 16 January Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art will present the participatory exhibition Learning to Love You More. The exhibition, organised in collaboration with Middlesbrough artist Nicky Peacock, consists of public responses to assignments created by international artists ...More
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| MoMA Presents an Exhibition of Photographs by Paul Graham from his 12-Volume Edition of Books |
MoMA Presents an Exhibition of Photographs by Paul Graham from his 12-Volume Edition of Books Titled A Shimmer of Possibility...More
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| Metropolitan Museum Celebrates the Holidays by Opening on "Holiday Monday" December 29 |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public on Monday, December 29 (the Monday between Christmas and New Year's Day), as part of the Museum's popular "Holiday Mondays" program. The Museum will open the doors of its main building this winter and spring on three additional major ...More
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| Last Chance to See Houdon and Richter, Western Art Round-up, Contemporary Art Lectures and Other January Highlights |
DENVER, CO.- Time is running out to see Houdon from the Louvre and Daniel Richter: A Major Survey. Both exhibitions end in early January.
Houdon from the Louvre showcases 21 works by French Enlightenment sculptor
Jean-Antoine Houdon, including busts of American founding fathers George...More
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| DFW International Airport to Host 26-Foot-Tall Anubis Statue in Celebration of King Tut Exhibit |
DALLAS, TX.- DFW International Airport welcomed the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god Anubis, guide and protector of the dead, to the Airport's popular Founders' Plaza today, celebrating the successful conclusion of the "Year of the International Traveler." The 10-ton, 26-foot-tall statue, which will "deck the skyways" with a giant candy cane staff, will be on display to celebrate ...More
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| Oliphant Cartoons and Sculpture from the Bush Years to be Presented at the University of Virginia Art Museum |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- Cartoon drawings, pencil sketches, oversized charcoal caricatures, and sculpture in bronze and wax, all featured in the exhibition, articulate the breadth of Oliphant's artistic production. These objects, some 100 in all, not only exemplify his plastic acumen, but their titles and captions point to his biting satiric wit. Certainly, Oliphant's efforts place him within a branch ...More
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| Museum of Art Presents Fantasy and Fairy Tales and Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor |
MUNCIE, IN.- The Ball State University Museum of Art will feature Fantasy and Fairy Tales and Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor from Jan. 16 to March 22. Although the themes sound similar, these two new exhibitions are actually very different. ...More
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| The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston Announces Exhibition Schedule 2009-2010 |
Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand
Feb. 6 - Aug. 16, 2009
On the 20th anniversary of the Obey Giant campaign, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opens the first museum survey of Shepard Fairey, the influential street artist who created the now iconic Obama poster. Stickers and...More
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| Wexner Center Presents Cinema Latino in January |
NEW YORK, NY.- Cinema Latino—a popular annual series, now in its third year and this year running January 9-29 at the Wexner Center—offers a survey of the contemporary and classic films of Latin America. Featuring documentaries, comedies, and drama, the series provides an opportunity to see ...More
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