Caravaggio
Scuderie del Quirinale
February 20th – June 13 2010
Caravaggio was not a prolific painter because his life often interfered with his art. Yet over the centuries many works have been attributed to him – for some these are simply too many, for others they are just dubious”.
The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction
Vitra Design Museum
20.03.2010 – 19.09.2010
Introduction
Do financially difficult conditions automatically lead to more economical and longer-lasting products? In this current discussion, both Darwinist model of the “survival of the fittest” as well as design icons from past crisis-ridden eras are presented as arguments.
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Part I: March 26–September 6, 2010
Part II: June 4–September 1, 2010
Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past.
Ayami Aoyama
Michener Art Museum (in the Outdoor Sculpture Garden)
March 20 – June 20, 2010
The James A. Michener Art Museum presents stone sculptures by artist Ayami Aoyama in the Outdoor Sculpture Garden from March 20 through June 20, 2010. Situated between the Museum and the Bucks County Library Center, this exhibit features marble and granite works that suggest both figurative forms and the landscape, in a style that is at once minimal and abstract.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announced today that Julián Zugazagoitia has been named the new Director/CEO of the Nelson-Atkins, the fifth director in the Museum’s 75-year history. Zugazagoitia, 46, an international scholar, museum director and consultant who has served for the past seven years as the Director/CEO of El Museo del Barrio in New York, was the unanimous choice of search committee members and will begin his position Sept. 1, 2010.




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