The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction
Vitra Design Museum
20.03.2010 – 19.09.2010
Introduction
Do financially difficult conditions automatically lead to more economical and longer-lasting products? In this current discussion, both Darwinist model of the “survival of the fittest” as well as design icons from past crisis-ridden eras are presented as arguments.
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Part I: March 26–September 6, 2010
Part II: June 4–September 1, 2010
Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past.
Ayami Aoyama
Michener Art Museum (in the Outdoor Sculpture Garden)
March 20 – June 20, 2010
The James A. Michener Art Museum presents stone sculptures by artist Ayami Aoyama in the Outdoor Sculpture Garden from March 20 through June 20, 2010. Situated between the Museum and the Bucks County Library Center, this exhibit features marble and granite works that suggest both figurative forms and the landscape, in a style that is at once minimal and abstract.
Kevin Red Star
Missoula Art Museum
April 2 – August 27, 2010
Missoula Art Museum (MAM) is pleased to present Kevin Red Star, a celebrated artist in our region. Red Star draws from his Crow tradition and culture for his subjects, both historical and modern.
The University of Miami’s School of Architecture (SOA) will host its first Annual Student Art Show titled “The Artist Behind the Architect” from March 4-6 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day at the School’s Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Irvin Korach Gallery (1215 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables). The announcement came from the SOA’s Student Council leader Michael Galea.
Utopia Matters. From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
May 1 – July 25, 2010
The realization of a utopian society has always been an aspiration of humankind, but its achievement
has been countered by the paradoxically dictatorial precepts upon which it must be founded.
Man Ray – Robert Mapplethorpe
Fondazione Marconi
24 march – 22 may 2010
On Tuesday 23 March the Fondazione Marconi presents the exhibition entitled “Man Ray–Mapplethorpe”, realized in tandem with the exhibition “Robert Mapplethorpe. The Perfection of Form” (running 12 March to 13 June 2010), organized by the Museo d’Arte in Lugano (Switzerland), and curated by Bruno Corà, in collaboration with the Mapplethorpe Foundation of New York.
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.
Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
31 March – 27 June 2010
An exhibition featuring works by many of America’s and Europe’s most celebrated 20th-century artists opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 31 March 2010.
Tobias Rehberger: “beat me!..”
Giò Marconi Gallery
March 12 – April 17, 2010
On display on the gallery’s groundfloor are various groups of works: among them are the room-sized lamp installation “The great Disarray Swindle” (2009), a big binary clock with several images of Michael Jackson, two cuckoo clocks that reproduce the typical scream of the King op Pop, a number of glass boxes containing various digital prints and “C’il Eam Habbim” (2005), a shooting range that has been shown in the gardens of Villa Manin in 2005.
The Art Circuit Artists, Galleries, Museums, Collectors
Museo Canonica (Villa Borghese)
march 7- april 25, 2010
The Exibition “ The Art Circuit.Artists, galleries, museums, collectors “presents works of art from private collections significant.
Marianne Breslauer, Photographs
Fotomuseum Winterthur
27 February – 30 May 2010
“What interested me was reality, more precisely, the unimportant reality, the reality most people overlooked.”
Marianne Breslauer left behind only a small photographic oeuvre, but one that is all the richer and that still has an undiminished freshness.