Diarmuid Kelley
Offer Waterman & Co
12 November – December 2010
Diarmuid Kelley is a very 21st century painter who is unafraid to use traditional techniques to stunning effect. His largest body of new work for many years, some 20 paintings, will go on show at Offer Waterman & Co, 11 Langton Street, London SW10 from 12 November to 11 December 2010.
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Norton Museum of Art
September 4, 2010 – February 8, 2011
The present Self-Portrait is one of the very last of no fewer than 36 which Van Gogh executed between his arrival in Paris and his suicide at the asylum in Saint-Rémy in July 1890. It seems to have been executed in a single sitting without later retouching. Van Gogh depicted himself at work, dressed in an artist’s smock with a palette and brushes in hand; he looks over his left shoulder (as if at the viewer) with an aspect of intense seriousness and self-scrutiny.
A Belief in the Power of Beauty: A Selection of Works by May Morris
Delaware Art Museum
August 28, 2010 – January 2, 2011
The Delaware Art Museum presents A Belief in the Power of Beauty: A Selection of Works by May Morris, on view August 28, 2010 – January 2, 2011. This exhibition will feature a selection of approximately 25 artworks, including landscape watercolors, embroidery, and hand-made books by the daughter of the celebrated William Morris, founder the Arts and Crafts Movement in England.
A Day in Pompeii
Art Gallery of Western Australia
21 May – 12 September 2010
An exquisite collection of decorations, paintings and furnishings recovered from beneath the ancient ruins of Pompeii is among more than 250 priceless artefacts which feature in A Day in Pompeii, on show at the WA Museum until September 12, 2010.
Collection Applied Design: A Kim MacConnel Retrospective
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)
October 9 – January 23, 2011
On Saturday, October 9, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will open Collection Applied Design: A Kim MacConnel Retrospective, an exhibition that surveys four decades of work by San Diego-based artist Kim MacConnel. The first full-career retrospective to be presented in San Diego of this influential artist, Collection Applied Design will be on view through January 23, 2011, at MCASD’s La Jolla location.
Hannes Schmid – Never Look Back
Fotostiftung Schweiz
12 June to 19 September 2010
The cowboy-hero riding across the apparently endless prairie and never looking back is a modern icon decisively shaped by photographic images – as for example in the legendary Marlboro advertising campaign. The Swiss photographer Hannes Schmid took countless photographs for that campaign. Disseminated worldwide on ads and posters, they have repeatedly inspired our visions of freedom and adventure. What is the secret behind the success of this figure? How do you create images so striking that they enter our collective memory?
Nabeshima Ware-Designs that Inspire Pride
Suntory Museum of Art
11 August – 11 October 2010
The Nabeshima kiln, run by the Nabeshima family for Kyushu’s Saga Clan, was Japan’s preeminent kiln in the service of a feudal domain, producing ceramic work for more than 200 years during the Edo period. Its high quality tableware, which was presented as gifts to the Tokugawa Shogunate household and to feudal lords, consisted primarily of blue-on-white underglaze porcelains, stylish overglaze polychrome enamels, and Celadon ware; these still charm viewers today with their elegant, attractive designs.The pieces produced, whilst continually striving for novel designs, always retained the sense of nobility and clarity associated with Nabeshima.
Man Ray: Unconcerned But Not Indifferent
National Art Center Tokyo
July 14 – September 13, 2010
Unconcerned But Not Indifferent presents more than 400 works from the collection of the Man Ray Trust. Although individual items have occasionally been loaned for major exhibitions, the full scope of the Trust’s collection, in an exhibition that focuses on its rarities, has never before been publicly presented.
Charles Avery – Onomatopoeia
Kunstverein Hannover
August 28–November 7, 2010
Under the title “Onomatopoeia”, the Kunstverein Hannover proudly presents the latest works by Scottish artist Charles Avery (born 1973), who has devoted himself exclusively to the creation of a fictional island archipelago since 2004. In detailed, large-scale drawings, installations, sculptures and objects, Avery forms a bizarre imaginary reality out of diverse philosophical ideas and concepts: Fabulous creatures, deities, tourists and adventurers are embedded in a complex social structure, merging into an entire cosmos that ranges between pure fantasy and theoretical reflection.
Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500–Present
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Sept. 25 – Jan. 9, 2011
A groundbreaking visual examination of how African artists expressed the dynamic interactions between African cultures and Europeans and Westerners will open Sept. 25 at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500–Present, on view through Jan. 9, 2011, will feature 95 works of art exploring 500 years of contact.
Graphic Studio: 50 Years in Dublin
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
8 September 2010 – 3 January 2011
An exhibition featuring a wide cross-section of prints by some 30 leading Irish and international artists, created over the past 50 years, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 8 September 2010. Graphic Studio: 50 Years in Dublin celebrates the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s first printmaking studio with a particular focus on their distinctive Visiting Artists Programme. The show also highlights the studio’s establishment by five members who, through innovation and progressive thinking, made Ireland a centre of world class printmaking.
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
High Museum of Art
February 19–May 29, 2011
The High Museum of Art will host “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography’s most original and influential masters. On view from February 19 through May 29, 2011, the exhibition comprises more than 250 photographs dating from 1929 to 1989—at least one-fifth of which are previously unknown to the public—and focuses on the photographer’s most productive decades, the 1930s through the 1960s. Also included is a generous selection of original issues of Life, Paris Match and other magazines in which many of the photographs first appeared.