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Light Years at Art Institute of Chicago

Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph
Art Institute of Chicago
December 13, 2011-March 11, 2012
There is a general consensus that new art of the 1960s and 1970s was heavily invested in photography. Not since the promotion in the 1920s of photomontage, photograms, and the “new vision” had so many painters and sculptors turned to photography for a renewal of artistic practice. Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 is the first major museum exhibition to examine that vanguard involvement in its full scope.

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Revelation & Regeneration, in commemoration of 9/11

Streaming Museum will launch a global tour of the exhibition Revelation and Regeneration in commemoration of 9/11, at Big Screen Plaza, in New York City on September 19, 7-9 pm.
The exhibition will be on view throughout its network of screens in public spaces and partnering centers around the world through 2012.

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Chris Johanson at Malmö Konsthall

Chris Johanson
Alright Alright
Malmö Konsthall
10 September – 27 November 2011
The American artist Chris Johanson (born 1968) is a self-taught product of San Francisco’s skateboard and graffiti culture. In his playful and humorous works he comments on what it is like to be human and live in today’s society. He works in widely varying media such as painting, film, installation and music.

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Offering of the Angels at Michener Art Museum (Doylestown)

Offering of the Angels (Il Pane degli Angeli)
James A. Michener Art Museum
April 21, 2012-August 11, 2012
For the first time ever, a selection of paintings and tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, by such Renaissance and Baroque masters as Sandro Botticelli, Il Parmigianino, Lorenzo Monaco, Il Guercino and Cristofano Allori, is coming to the United States.

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The Painterly Voice at Michener Art Museum (Doylestown)

The Painterly Voice: Bucks County’s Fertile Ground
Michener Art Museum
October 22, 2011 — April 1, 2012
Bucks County’s legacy of excellence in the art of canvas and brush is explored in this major exhibition organized by the Michener Art Museum. From the renowned 19th-century painters Edward Hicks and Martin Johnson Heade, to the gifted masters of landscape painting in the first half of the twentieth century, to the lively and inventive New Hope modernists, The Painterly Voice: Bucks County’s Fertile Ground will feature more than 200 works of art by Bucks County’s best-known historic artists.

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Nancy Hellebrand at Michener Art Museum (Doylestown)

Learning to See: Photographs by Nancy Hellebrand
Michener Art Museum
October 29, 2011 — February 26, 2012
Learning to See: Photographs by Nancy Hellebrand is a series of subtly colored, large-scale photographs combining individual pictures of tree branches. Each picture is more an abstract meditation than a mirror of nature. First, digital files are superimposed to make one combined image, and then several combined images are placed side by side. The images are connected by form,

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Timothy O’Sullivan at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City)

Timothy O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photography
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
14 April – 8 agust 2012
The King Survey of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains, from 1867 to 1872, was the model for the other “great surveys” of the American West. Rare and iconic works by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, the King Survey’s official photographer, will be featured in an exhibition opening at the Art Institute of Chicago on Oct. 22.

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Misaki Kawai at Malmö Konsthall

Misaki Kawai
Big Bubble
Malmö Konsthall
10 September – 27 November 2011
The Japanese artist Misaki Kawai (b. 1978) works with painting, drawing, sculpture, installations and artists’ books. Her works are filled with colourful characters, that appear to come from the dream world of film, music and comics.

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Themes&Variations at Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice)

Themes&Variations. Script and Space
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
15 October 2011 – 1 January 2012
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents once again Themes&Variations.
First conceived in 2002 by Luca Massimo Barbero, this is the third edition of an innovative but now habitual exhibition formula that offers visitors fresh perceptions of the museum’s collections, whether known or less known, by means of a dialogue with works by more contemporary artists from other collections.

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Princely Treasures at Art Gallery of Western Australia

Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600 – 1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Art Gallery of Western Australia
24 September 2011 to 9 January 2012
A treasure trove of European decorative art from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum will go on show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in September.

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