Avengers Assemble!
Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition
May 12 – October 21, 2012
The Cartoon Art Museum celebrates five decades of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes with Avengers Assemble!, an exhibition featuring some of the most iconic characters in comic book history, including Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man, The Wasp, Hawkeye, Black Widow and The Incredible Hulk.

Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past
Asian Art Museum
May 18–September 2, 2012
This May, the Asian Art Museum debuts Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, an ambitious exhibition exploring the complex, diverse, cross-cultural perspectives of Asian cosmology and spirituality through a compelling interplay of 140 artworks from the past and present.

Michael Bise Wins 2012 Hunting Art Prize

HOUSTON, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Hunting PLC announced that Children by Houston artist Michael Bise is the winner of the $50,000 Hunting Art Prize for 2012.
The graphite drawing was selected from over 100 finalists in the 32nd annual award program, which is sponsored by the global oil services company and is the most generous annual art prize in North America for painting and drawing.
The announcement came during an evening awards gala on Saturday, April 28, at the Friedkin Companies Campus, Gulf States Toyota, in …

An International Art Project on The Move

BEIJING, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire / — Famous Chinese artists Feng JianHua, Nie Ming and Zhang Jin join in an international creative art project named BOLERO that will be exhibited in 798 on 1 May 2012.
Bolero is a nomad exhibition that grows like a caravan enlarging during a trip in the desert. Starting point is a local newspaper where in each country several artists are invited to make a work of art and join Bolero. The works of art are presented in print form.
Till …

New works by Haitian artists of “When Our Brushes Shook” at exhibit at Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology from April 27-May 11
Works of Art Show Emotional Shift As Time Passes

WEST ROXBURY, Mass., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – As time passes and some wounds heal, Haitian artists have begun to express more hope and optimism in their works of art, according to Charlot Lucien, funder and co-director of the Haitian Artists Assembly of Mass. (HAAM) and one of the founders of “When Our Brushes Shook,” an organization formed in the aftermath of …

Banned in Beijing – Artist Simon Raab Outlawed in China

MANNHEIM, Germany, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — “I suppose it should be regarded as a badge of honor to be banned for making art about political freedom,” said Simon Raab (www.simonraabgallery.com) upon hearing that his work had been banned in China. “I am disappointed that the Beijing show was canceled but also fascinated by the irony. Why did the Communist Party that manages the lives of 1.3 billion people and the world’s largest standing army, find my work threatening? Perhaps all …

Art Crafting towards the Future
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Saturday, April 28 – Friday, August 31, 2012
“Art Crafting towards the Future” inquires into the contemporary validity of kôgei (Japanese artisan craft) and universalness of its appeal.”