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.
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.”
Parcours
Art Institute of Chicago
April 21 – September 9, 2012
Parcours –a French word for “route” or “path”–in the United States designates an educational or exercise trail, a loop marked by sights or gymnastics, always with explanatory texts and often with diagrammatic drawings as well. It is, one could say, an outdoor exhibition circuit for the improvement of one’s mind and body. The Art Institute of Chicago’s own Parcours–a sort of model exhibition and conceptual art project–presents a similarly conceived itinerary indoors and online.
Tapis Volants (Flying carpets)
Villa Medici
30 May – 21 october 2012
The Academy of France in Rome – Villa Medici – presents the Tapis Volants exhibition, from 30th May to 21st october 2012, organized by Philippe-Alain Michaud (Centre Pompidou), realized with the support of the Centre Pompidou, the Les Abattoirs Museum of Toulouse and in collaboration with the Textile Museum of Lyon, the Jacquemart-André Museum and the Quai Branly Museum.
Gianluigi Colin. Mitografie
Fondazione Marconi Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
April, 14th – May, 17th 2012
The Fondazione Marconi is very pleased to announce the exhibition “Mitografie” by Gianluigi Colin.
Gianluigi Colin, an original and independent personality inside the art world, focuses his attention on contemporary symbols, using “the material that the world presents”. The subjects of his works are icons and events of the present, selected from the infinite amount of informations that the media present us. In Colin’s work there is a constant dialogue between images and words, that pays tribute to the most influencial semiologist of the 20th century, Roland Barthes.
Danh Võ
KUB Billboards
10-04 — 24-06-2012
For the KUB Billboards Danh Võ selected found images from the history of Vietnam and arranged them in pairs.
On the one hand, there are photos of intimate situations among Vietnamese men taken in the 1960s by Joseph Carrier while working as an economist for the RAND Corporation; on the other, illustrations of martyrs in Vietnam who underwent torture and execution for their faith.
During the meticulous restoration of Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (1663-64), one of the Rijksmuseum’s four Vermeer masterpieces, a number of surprising details were uncovered. Vermeer’s characteristically intense use of blue, for example, can now be viewed in all of its magnificent nuances for the first time in centuries. In addition, several pearls that were added in 1928 were removed, and other details that had disappeared were restored.
La Raza Comica: A celebration of the Latino-American experience in the Comic Arts
Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition
May 5 – September 30, 2012
Cinco de Mayo marks the opening date for a major art exhibition focusing on Latinos in comics: La Raza Comica: A Celebration of the Latino American Experience in the Comic Arts.
Rosângela Rennó – Strange Fruits
Fotomuseum Winterthur
09.06.-19.08.2012
The term Appropriation Art in the narrower sense is used when an artist deliberately copies individual works by other artists with a specific creative strategy in mind. This is a form of appropriation that is not considered plagiary but intentional artistic borrowing.
The Michener Art Museum Board of Directors is pleased to announce Lisa Tremper Hanover as the museum’s new Director and CEO. She succeeds Bruce Katsiff, who has been at the helm since 1989. Hanover has been director, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, for nearly a quarter century, where she also is […]
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is pleased to announce that the BMW Guggenheim Lab will open in the Pfefferberg complex, in the Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg. The BMW Guggenheim Lab—a temporary public space and online forum encouraging open dialogue about issues related to urban living—will offer free public programs from June 15 to July […]
Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun
Art Institute of Chicago
February 25–June 3, 2012
In the first exhibition devoted to the artist in the United States, Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun explores the prescient and provocative work of French Surrealist Claude Cahun. Born Lucy Schwob to a family of French Jewish intellectuals and writers, Claude Cahun–who adopted the pseudonym at age 22–is best known for the staged self-portraiture, photomontages, and prose texts she made principally between 1920 and 1940.
