ÖMSUBM: a museum for Black culture and popular music in the German-speaking world
With its inauguration on May 14, 2022, the ÖMSUBM is set to become the foremost museum for Black culture and popular music in the German-speaking world
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Female Power at Rijksmuseum Schiphol
Female Power opens at Rijksmuseum Schiphol on 3 November 2021. This exhibition foregrounds the portrayal of strong and individual women in paintings from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and the work of female artists. Each of the women has a unique story testifying to their willpower, vision and courage. The exhibition will run for […]
Thomas Bils at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
Thomas Bils: Still Cheaper Than PayingFort Lauderdale, FL – April 15, 2021- NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will present the first solo museum exhibition of Miami artist Thomas Bills, featuring his project in which he turns the artifacts of his financial obligations into something other than inert monetary transactions. Thomas Bils: Still Cheaper Than Paying will be on view May 15 through Fall 2021. Upon receiving […]
Michaël Borremans Mark Manders: Double Silence.
In “Double Silence,” Borremans and Manders invite the viewer into a space and time in which the artists themselves engage in a dialogue through their works, as the title suggests, amid calm or silence. The word “double” means to be twice as much, twofold, but also has several other meanings, such as two together, distinctly different aspects (eg “dual personality”) and forming a pair.
Alberto Giacometti at Moderna Museet: Face to Face
Alberto Giacometti forged a singular path within European modernism, restlessly seeking a new language for sculpture as a “double of reality”. Today, his elongated, pared-down figures have become iconic. Moderna Museet’s latest exhibition Giacometti – Face to Face is the first large-scale presentation of Giacometti’s work in Sweden in over twenty years and Moderna Museet’s Director Gitte Ørskou predicts the exhibition to be a future classic.
Karl Stengel at the Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo of Santa Marta, Colombia
Presented by the Fundación Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo of Santa Marta, Colombia, in collaboration with The Stengel Collection in Florence, Italy November 29, 2018 – February 17, 2019 Santa Marta, Colombia – From drawing to metaphor, an exhibition of twenty-six drawings by the late Hungarian artist Karl Stengel (1925-2017), will be on view at […]
Picasso-Lautrec @museothyssen
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza presents Picasso/Lautrec, the first monographic exhibition devoted to comparing these two great masters of modern art. Although their artistic link has been repeatedly established by literature and contemporary critics, this is the first time their works have been displayed alongside each other in an exhibition. The show also examines this fascinating relationship […]
Piaceri Sconosciuti: a Glenn Brown solo exhibition at Stefano Bardini Museum
From 10 June-23 October the Stefano Bardini Museum will host paintings and sculptures by Glenn Brown together with the Bardini collection The Stefano Bardini Museum is thrilled to announce Piaceri Sconosciuti (Unknown Pleasures), a major exhibition by Glenn Brown from 10th June to 23th October. Mining art history and popular culture, Glenn Brown has created an artistic language that transcends time and […]
Tancredi Parmeggiani: a retrospective @GuggenheimPGC
From 12 November 2016 to 13 March 2017 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the exhibition My Weapon against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass. TANCREDI. A Retrospective This is a long-awaited return to Venice and to Peggy Guggenheim’s museum of Tancredi Parmeggiani (1926-1964), among the most original and passionate Italian painters of third […]
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – The first major international retrospective of the greatest portraitist of the eighteenth century, now showing at the National Gallery of Canada, closes September 11th, 2016
OTTAWA, Sept. 1, 2016 /CNW/ – Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), is widely regarded as the best portrait painter of the eighteenth century and among the most important of all women artists, for her masterful use of colour and her new approach to portraiture. Despite her artistic achievements, she is only now getting her […]
Yayoi Kusama @ModernaMuseet
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most acclaimed artists working today. Since the 1950s, she has created art that is as personal as it is universal. Like few other artists she moves freely between painting, sculpture and installations, between art and design, and between East and West. In summer 2016, Moderna Museet and ArkDes are […]
The Hugo Boss Prize 2016 Short List @Guggenheim
Six finalists have been selected for the Hugo Boss Prize 2016, the biennial award established in 1996 to recognize artists whose work is among the most innovative and influential of our time. Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and chair of the jury, today announced the […]