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 […]
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) Musée d’Orsay 18 October 2010 – 23 January 2011 This exhibition is the first monographic exhibition on Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris and the first major exhibition since the pioneer show organised by Gerald Ackerman in 1972-1973 (Dayton Art Institute, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore). Perception of this artist has […]
Crime and Punishment Musée d’Orsay 15 March – 27 June 2010 On 30 September 1981, the French Minister of Justice Robert Badinter succeeded in having capital punishment abolished in France. Debates over the issue had dragged on for two centuries. Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau had asked the members of the constituent assembly to abolish capital […]
Art Nouveau Revival 1900 • 1933 • 1966 • 1974 Musée d’Orsay 20 October 2009 – 4 February 2010 Rejected and reviled in the decades after its brief flowering, Art Nouveau enjoyed a spectacular rehabilitation in the 1960s. This re-evaluation is a particularly interesting episode in the history of taste because it occurred in several […]
Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids Nasher Museum of Art November 12, 2009 – February 21, 2010 “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids” provides insight into the artist who sought to capture the world like a camera. The exhibition includes about 250 Polaroids and 70 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol from 1970 to 1987, many […]
Meijer de Haan Musée d’Orsay 15 March – 20 June 2010 An introduction to the work of Meijer de Haan (1852-1895), who is known today largely through portraits by his friend Paul Gauguin. No monograph exhibition has been dedicated to this artist, although he was an important figure in Gauguin’s circle in the late 1880s […]
James Ensor Musée d’Orsay 20 October 2009 – 4 February 2010 When exhibited in Belgium – at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels or the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp – James Ensor (1861-1949) comes across as an innovative, tormented Belgian artist. At the Musee d’Orsay, his paintings are seen […]
Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature Nasher Museum of Art Feb. 4 – May 16, 2010 A unique exhibition that compares the 19th century origins of journalistic caricature with its transformation in the digital age comes to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from Feb. 4 through May 16, 2010. “Lines of Attack: […]
CURATE THIS! 2010, the second installment of the CURATE THIS! exhibition series created by BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art, is evolving from a one city-wide event location into a global arts + cultural exchange event involving multiple venues located in multiple cities around the world. The global art + design exhibition will take place […]
Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion January 29 – March 28, 2010
The Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval Manuscripts The Walters Art Museum December 3, 2009 – February 28, 2010
Holidays and Weekdays Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts at 10 Gogolevsky Boulevard December 17, 2009 – January 17, 2010 The painting and graphics collection of the 1970s-1980s constitutes an important part of the “ROSIZO” State Museum and Exhibition Center holdings. “Holidays and Weekdays” exhibition is timed to coincide with the […]