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Early Modernism at Moderna Museet (Malmö)

Early Modernism: 1900-1920
Moderna Museet (Malmö)
19 March 2011 – 8 April 2012
In the latter half of the 19th century, the rules and norms governing visual arts were dissolved and replaced by a wide array of artistic possibilities, where small constellations of artists fought for new, revolutionary ideas. Partly as a consequence of the emerging art of photography in the second half of the 1800s, the artists of the time eschewed the concept of naturalistic depiction and instead began to explore the conditions of painting. Illusionist painting was no longer a viable alternative.

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remix at Art Gallery of Western Australia

remix
Art Gallery of Western Australia
16 April – 15 August 2011
remix showcases the creativity of some twenty contemporary Western Australian artists of diverse backgrounds, age and
experience. The exhibition includes a broad mix of media with painting, sculpture, design, photography and filmic work, most of it recently created by the artists and representing some of the most compelling examples of contemporary practice by Western Australian artists.

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Marcel Duchamp at Moderna Museet (Malmö)

Marcel Duchamp
Moderna Museet (Malmö)
19 March 2011 – 11 September 2011
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) emphasised the importance of the concept in a work of art. He was one of the first proponents of open art, where the interpretation of the viewer or posterity contributes to the creative act and thus to the meaning of the work. Moderna Museet has one of the world’s finest collections of Marcel Duchamp’s art, and fourteen of these works are now being shown at Moderna Museet Malmö.

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Les Levine at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin)

Mindful Media: Works from the 1970s
Irish Museum of Modern Art
23 March 2011 – 12 June 2011
An exhibition of works donated to the Irish Museum of Modern Art by Dublin-born artist Les Levine, opens to the public at IMMA on Wednesday 23 March 2011. Mindful Media: Works from the 1970s comprises two portfolios of etchings and photographic works mixing text and image to reinforce the artist’s belief that social and political problems are valid concerns for art.

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Gary Lee Noffke at Mint Museum Uptown (Charlotte)

Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Lee Noffke
Mint Museum
2 April – 11 September 2011
The provocative humor and pioneering style of metalsmith Gary Lee Noffke will be exhibited in a major retrospective of the artist’s work at the Mint Museum Uptown this spring. Featuring significant examples of Noffke’s hollowware, flatware, and jewelry, the exhibition Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Lee Noffke (2 April – 11 September 2011) not only captures the artist’s rebellious nature, but also examines his methodology, evolution of style, and impact on the field of metal.

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Nancy Spero at Serpentine Gallery (London)

Nancy Spero
Serpentine Gallery
3 March – 2 May 2011
Artist and activist Nancy Spero (1926–2009) was a leading pioneer of feminist art. During her 50-year career, she created a vibrant visual language constructed from the histories and mythologies of past and present cultures.

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A Ballad of Love and Death at Musée d’Orsay (Paris)

A Ballad of Love and Death: Pre-Raphaelite Photography in Great Britain, 1848-1875
Musée d’Orsay
8 March – 29 May 2011
In the second half of the 19th century, during the heyday of Victorian England, the aesthetic principles of the Pre-Raphaelite painters were frequently echoed by the photographers of the time who aspired to be recognised as artists in their own right.

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Intervals: Futurefarmers at Guggenheim Museum (New York)

Intervals: Futurefarmers
Guggenheim Museum
May 4–14, 2011
From May 4 to May 14, 2011, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Intervals: Futurefarmers, the fourth installment of its contemporary art series designed to reflect the spirit of today’s innovative practices. For its Intervals project, the San Francisco–based art collective Futurefarmers is creating a site-specific installation on the Rotunda floor of the museum and organizing intimate participatory programs for the public in various spaces around the city of New York.

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Holly Andres, Grace Carter, Gerd Aurell at Missoula Art Museum

Video Artists Holly Andres, Grace Carter, and Gerd Aurell
Missoula Art Museum
March 16 – May 29, 2011
Missoula Art Museum screens two video artworks in the Goldberg Library, to reacquaint visitors with ideas about video art. The videos presented, Holly Andres and Grace Carter’s Dandelion, and Gerd Aurell’s Montana is a Harsh Mistress, each tells a painful story but use different means of expression.

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Fantastic donations of photographic art to Moderna Museet (Stockholm)

Moderna Museet’s focus on photography in 2011 has been met with great enthusiasm even before it is in full swing. Several impressive private donations of works by key artists working in the photographic medium have further enhanced the museum’s collection. Since the project Another Story (which will be launched in three phases over the year) highlights the Moderna Museet’s collection; the two directors of Moderna Museet, Daniel Birnbaum and Ann-Sofi Noring say “this generous donation is the best thing that could happen to the museum and its visitors”. Many of the new works can already be seen when the new presentation of the collection opens on February 24.

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Regine Schulz: executive director of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum (RPM) in Hildesheim, Germany

Director Gary Vikan of the Walters Art Museum announced today that Dr. Regine Schulz, director of international curatorial affairs and curator of ancient art at the Walters since 2000, has been named executive director of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum (RPM) in Hildesheim, Germany. Schulz, who will assume her duties in the fall, will succeed Dr. Katja Lembke, who was recently named director of the Landesmuseum of Lower Saxony in Hannover.

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