Quilt Art: International Expressions
Michener Art Museum
September 10 – December 31, 2011
The time-honored tradition of quilting is getting a modern art makeover in Quilt Art: International Expressions at the James A Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., September 10 to December 31 in the Fred Beans Gallery. Barbara Fighera Harrison is sponsor, with additional sponsorship from Mancuso Show Management.
Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want
Southbank Centre
18 May 2011 – 29 August 2011
Tracey Emin is one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists. This major survey exhibition covers every period of her career, revealing facets of the artist and her work that are often overlooked. The exhibition features painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video and sculpture, in works that are by turns tough, romantic, desperate, angry, funny and full of longing. Seldom-seen early works and recent large-scale installations are shown together with a new series of outdoor sculptures created especially for the Hayward Gallery.
George Condo: Mental States
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
25 June – 25 September 2011
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has a unique collection of works by the Surrealists, including masterpieces by Dalí and Magritte. The work of George Condo (1957) has a surreal quality that complements this collection. The selection of works charts the artist’s development from 1983 to the present day. His paintings and sculptures explore the genre of portraiture, the human physiognomy and various ‘states of mind’.
Master drawings London
1 – 8 July 2011
After celebrating its 10th anniversary last year Master Drawings London is returning once again to Mayfair, St. James’s and Bloomsbury from the 1 – 8 July 2011. Twentytwo leading drawings specialists from London, New York, Düsseldorf and Madrid open their doors to mount a series of co-ordinated selling exhibitions and lectures in galleries all within walking distance of each other. As ever visitors can expect to see a great range and variety of some of the finest Old Master and Modern drawings on the market by a number of the worlds most distinguished artists.
On Horizons – Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur
September 3 – November 13, 2011
The photographic gaze into the horizon is the mirror for internal and external states and produces artistic interpretations and commentaries. As in other artistic genres, landscape in photography is interpreted through political and private gazes and the results go far beyond purely aesthetic experiences. Assembled from the collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, this exhibition shows how photographers since the mid-1960s have approached their imagery from a range of analytical and emotional standpoints.
John Burningham: An Illustrated Journey
The Fleming Collection
13 September – 22 December 2011
A celebration of the rich and varied career of John Burningham, one of Britain’s most distinguished and best-loved illustrators, is to be held at The Fleming Collection at 13 Berkeley Street, London W1 from 13 September to 22 December 2011.
Small Press Spotlight on Thien Pham
Cartoon Art Museum
June 25 – September 18, 2011
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series
September 24, 2011-January 15, 2012 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
February 26-May 27, 2012 at the Orange County Museum of Art
June 30-September 23, 2012 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California, announced final details for the much anticipated exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series.
The largest commercial art gallery in Australia officially opens its doors in Perth taking Western Australia’s private art scene to a new level.
The Anthony Riding Gallery is the bold new venture of acclaimed WA artist and curator Ben Riding and art collector Andreia Anthony.
Barrie Cooke
Irish Museum of Modern Art
15 June -18 September 2011
A wide-ranging survey of the work of the distinguished artist Barrie Cooke, organised to mark his 80th birthday, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) on Wednesday 15 June 2011. Entitled simply Barrie Cooke, the exhibition comprises some 70 paintings and sculptures, from the Sheila-Na-Gig images and the Perspex bone boxes of the 1960s and 1970s to the nudes which have formed a constant mode of expression in his practice. Works are drawn from the Museum’s own significant holding of Cooke’s oeuvre, as well as from public and private collections.
Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
June 15 – November 13
Humankind has long been fascinated with the realms above us. For more than 150 years, photographers have looked to the heavens for inspiration and personal expression.
Je suis belle
OSRAM GALLERY MUNICH
June 1 – November 5, 2011
The new exhibition compiled from the company’s artwork collection is centered around a new acquisition: “Girlfriends” by the Swiss artist, Chantal Michel. This pair of images complements the focus of the collection on the dialog between painting and photography. Michel’s key interest concerns the search for one’s own identity.
