Stefan Burger – Under the Circumstances
Fotomuseum Winterthur
11.09.-14.11.2010
We have a penchant for cladding, disguising, draping, varnishing and covering up – the crooked wall, the aging face, the leaking oil rig, the dented bodywork. We have a penchant for fixing the world around us to hide the way it came about, the way it evolved or the way it works, so that it can just sit before us to be appreciated and admired like a perfect, glistening box. Actions disappear in the outcome, cracks, defects and mistakes are concealed, spaces edited out. We like the outcome, the performance, the action, the event and the glamour – and we get rid of what’s in between, what’s absent, dull , the anticlimax, we wipe away everything we don’t want, tossing it into the real or virtual trashcan.

Amy Martin: Small Press Spotlight
Cartoon Art Museum
September 18 – December 12, 2010
Beginning on September 18, 2010, the Cartoon Art Museum’s ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Amy Martin.

Amy Martin is a cartoonist from Chicago who now lives in San Francisco. She has been self-publishing comic books since 2004, and has completed twelve books. She is the creator of The Single Girls, Bachelor Girl, and The Girls Are Mighty Fine.

Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
September 25, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Over the past 45 years, Richard Gray, one of America’s foremost modern and contemporary art dealers, and his wife, art historian and author Mary Lackritz Gray, have gathered a remarkable collection representing seven centuries of creativity. On September 25, 2010, the Art Institute of Chicago will present the first-ever exhibition of their collection. Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, on view through January 2, 2011, in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Wing (Galleries 124-127) of the museum, features 121 works from the 15th through the 21st centuries–from Francesco Salviati through Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney–and includes a generous promised gift of nine works to the museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings.

Angela Babby: Wolakota
Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
September 16, 2010 – February 6, 2011
Missoula Art Museum is thrilled to host Wolakota, a new exhibition featuring the enameled art glass mosaics of Angela Babby. The subject matter in these works includes a combination of floral designs and portraits of significant tribal influences and is made entirely from glass, mortar, and tile board. The ritual required to plan and execute the design, coupled with the resulting luminescence, places Babby amongst a very few artists in the region working with this medium and very unique practice.

Diarmuid Kelley
Offer Waterman & Co
12 November – December 2010
Diarmuid Kelley is a very 21st century painter who is unafraid to use traditional techniques to stunning effect. His largest body of new work for many years, some 20 paintings, will go on show at Offer Waterman & Co, 11 Langton Street, London SW10 from 12 November to 11 December 2010.

Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Norton Museum of Art
September 4, 2010 – February 8, 2011
The present Self-Portrait is one of the very last of no fewer than 36 which Van Gogh executed between his arrival in Paris and his suicide at the asylum in Saint-Rémy in July 1890. It seems to have been executed in a single sitting without later retouching. Van Gogh depicted himself at work, dressed in an artist’s smock with a palette and brushes in hand; he looks over his left shoulder (as if at the viewer) with an aspect of intense seriousness and self-scrutiny.

A Belief in the Power of Beauty: A Selection of Works by May Morris
Delaware Art Museum
August 28, 2010 – January 2, 2011
The Delaware Art Museum presents A Belief in the Power of Beauty: A Selection of Works by May Morris, on view August 28, 2010 – January 2, 2011. This exhibition will feature a selection of approximately 25 artworks, including landscape watercolors, embroidery, and hand-made books by the daughter of the celebrated William Morris, founder the Arts and Crafts Movement in England.