Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands
American Folk Art Museum
April 6 – September 12, 2010
The exhibition Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands, on view from April 6 through September 12, 2010, highlights the wealth of female artistic expression from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection
Guggenheim Museum
January 23–May 12, 2010

As one of the final exhibitions of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection presents thirty-four works by eighteen artists from the Guggenheim Museum’s collection, including significant groups of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Calder. The exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator, and is on view from January 23 through May 12, 2010.
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Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917
Art Institute of Chicago
March 20 – June 20, 2010
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
July 18 – October 11, 2010
The Art Institute of Chicago and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) have co-organized an ambitious exhibition that presents, for the first time, a seminal investigation of a pivotal point in the career of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), one of the 20th century’s greatest artists. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 will premiere at the Art Institute March 20 through June 20, 2010, and then travel to MoMA, where it will be on view from July 18 through October 11, 2010.

Tino Sehgal
Guggenheim Museum
January 29–March 10, 2010
Tino Sehgal (b. 1976, London) constructs situations that defy the traditional context of museum and gallery environments, focusing on the fleeting gestures and social subtleties of lived experience rather than on material objects. Relying exclusively on the human voice, bodily movement, and social interaction, Sehgal’s works nevertheless fulfill all the parameters of a traditional artwork with the exception of its inanimate materiality. They are presented continuously during the operating hours of the museum, they can be bought and sold, and, by virtue of being repeatable, …

On the 50th Anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Guggenheim and Google announced the two winners of the Design It: Shelter Competition. This interactive, online competition asked participants to utilize Google SketchUp and Google Earth to create and submit designs for virtual 3-D shelters for a location of their choice anywhere on Earth. The Juried Prize, selected by a jury of architecture and design experts, was awarded to David Eltang of Aarhus, Denmark for his SeaShelter structure. The People’s Prize, determined by public voting …