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| Christo and Jean-Claude Present Over The River Exhibition at Fondation de l'Hermitage |
A woman observes a work made by Christo and Jeanne-Claude during the inauguration of the exhibition 'Over the River, A Work in Progress' on view at Fondation de l´Hermitage in Lausanne, Switzerland. Photo: EFE/DOMINIC FAVRE
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LAUSANNE.- The Fondation de l’Hermitage presents an outstanding exhibition on Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s current artwork in progress, Over The River. Preparation for this creation, to be exhibited in summer 2012 at the earliest, started in 1992. The artists propose the horizontal suspension of 9.4 ...More
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| The Royal Ontario Museum Brings the Book of the Dead Back to Life |
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) launches Egypt Month at the ROM on February 28, 2009 by inviting visitors to journey into the afterlife with its newest exhibit Out of the Vaults: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. The recently conserved Book of the Dead of Amen-em-hat, seen in its full beauty for the first time in over 2,300 ...More
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| Park Avenue Armory Launches Annual Program to Commission Works Catalyzed by its Vast Drill Hall |
NEW YORK, NY.- Park Avenue Armory announced the next step in its evolution as a dynamic arts institution with the launch of an annual program in which an artist will be commissioned to create a work of epic scale catalyzed by the Armory’s vast drill hall. The inaugural artist will be Ernesto Neto who is known ...More
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| First Mid-Career Survey of Amy Blakemore to Open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
HOUSTON, TX.- Houston-based Amy Blakemore takes photographs in order to explore the ways in which memory both records and transforms visual information. Employing the camera as subjective tool, Blakemore has compared the activity of photography to the process of gathering broken bits and lost objects discovered serendipitously during long walks. "Instead of picking up stuff," she ...More
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| Neuberger Museum of Art Opens Andy Warhol: Snapshots |
PURCHASE, NY.- The documentary medium for which Andy Warhol, the Prince of Pop, is best known is photography. But his art is inseparable from photography. An obsessive photographer, it is estimated that Warhol made between 60,000 and 100,000 snapshots in his lifetime. The camera functioned as his sketch book, diary and means of communication. He initially borrowed ...More
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| The Aspen Art Museum Presents Jim Hodges You will See These Things |
ASPEN, CO.- The Aspen Art Museum is proud to present internationally renowned American conceptual artist Jim Hodges’ new site-inspired exhibition you will see these things through Sunday, May 3, 2009....More
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| Holland & Japan: 400 Years of Trade on View at Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport |
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport presents Holland & Japan: 400 Years of Trade, marking the four-hundredth anniversary of commercial ties between the Netherlands and Japan. The exhibition examines the privileged position Dutch traders enjoyed on the isolated island of Deshima and ...More
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| Milwaukee Art Museum Presents Remains: Contemporary Artists and the Material Past |
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Three midwestern artists explore the dreams, fantasies, and memories that people project onto material objects in Remains: Contemporary Artists and the Material Past, on view February 12–June 7 in the Decorative Arts gallery at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Beth Lipman, Sarah Lindley, and BA...More
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| Mattress Factory Announces Thaddeus Mosley: Sculpture (Studio/Home) |
PITTSBURGH, PA.- In a city like Pittsburgh that is steeped with tradition, oral histories become a unique view into the past. Stories told over generations are met with curiosity about places and people forever changed by time. One such storyteller is artist Thaddeus Mosley....More
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| Baton Rouge Gallery Announces a 'Surreal' Evening like No Other |
BATON ROUGE, LA.- Surrealism is one of the most intriguing artistic movements in history and is understandably one of the least understood. Since its beginnings in the early-1920s, surrealism has been an exciting enigma and now, Baton Rouge Gallery brings the enigma to Louisiana's capital city....More
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| MCA Exhibition Explores Intersection of Australian Artistic and Literary Worlds |
SYDNEY.- The intersection of Australia’s literary and contemporary art worlds is the subject of a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) opening this autumn. avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world presents works by 28 contemporary Australian artists whose practice has been informed by ...More
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| Cape Ann Museum to Open Charles A. Lowe Photos: Gloucester 1975 |
GLOUCESTER, MA.- The Cape Ann Museum will present an exhibition of the work of photojournalist Charles A. Lowe, opening on March 7 with a public reception from 3:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. ...More
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| Site-specific Installation by Sun K. Kwak on View at the Brooklyn Museum March 27 |
BROOKLYN, NY.- Korean-born, Brooklyn-based artist Sun K. Kwak will create a site-specific work composed of approximately three miles black masking tape in the fifth-floor Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery of the Brooklyn Museum. Sun K. Kwak: Enfolding 280 Hours will be on view March 27 through July 5, 2009. ...More
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| SFMOMA Presents Opera in Conjunction with William Kentridge Exhibition |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Acknowledging the importance of theatrical work in William Kentridge's oeuvre, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present The Return of Ulysses, an opera directed by the artist. The Return of Ulysses will run at Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco, from Tuesday, March 24, through ...More
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| Chinese Classicism in New Media by Wang Tian De, Hong Lei and Gao Yuan to Open at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art will present a group exhibition of new works by Chinese artists Wang Tian De, Hong Lei and Gao Yuan, all of whom combine digital media and print photography to reinterpret the themes and iconography of classical Chinese painting....More
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| Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project Presents Happy Free Friends |
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Curated by Kate Hackman, Associate Director, Charlotte Street Foundation, Happy Tree Friends (or Standing: Tree as Agent, Index, Object of Desire) is a two-part exhibition project featuring works that depict, reference, incorporate, document, and otherwise derive or draw inspiration from trees. The ...More
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| Smithsonian's National Postal Museum Presents Eliot Landau's Lincoln, Slavery and the Civil War |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Eliot Landau will discuss his award-winning philatelic exhibition “Lincoln, Slavery and the Civil War” at this year’s Maynard Sundman Lecture at Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum Saturday, March 7, at 1 p.m. In addition, the collection will be on display in the museum’s Franklin ...More
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| Cheryl Dunn: Spit & Peanut Shells - American Pictures to Open at Country Club |
CINCINNATI, OH.- Cheryl Dunn is a New York based photographer and filmmaker. Spit & Peanut Shells - American Pictures features new and recent photography, video and objects documenting, not only Dunn's travels within the United States, but also her singular perspective on the diversity of environments, interactions, people and situations she encounters. In this way Dunn stitches ...More
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