Contemporary British Studio Ceramics: The Grainer Collection (Charlotte)

Contemporary British Studio Ceramics: The Grainer Collection
Mint Museum of Art
October 1, 2010 – March 13, 2011
Drawn from the collection of Diane and Marc Grainer of suburban Washington, D.C., this exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of Contemporary British Studio Ceramics in the United States and Great Britain. Comprised of functional and sculptural objects made between the 1980s and 2009, the show features work by 100 artists either born or residing in Great Britain, including established “contemporary classics” like Lucie Rie and cutting-edge ceramicists such as Julian Stair, Kate Malone, Neil Brownsword, and Grayson Perry.

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New Visions: Contemporary Masterworks from the Bank of America Collection (Charlotte)

New Visions: Contemporary Masterworks from the Bank of America Collection
Mint Museum
October 1, 2010 – April 17, 2011
The Mint Museum and Bank of America will collaborate to present an exhibition comprising over 60 works from the bank’s Art Collection. Widely regarded as one of the world’s finest corporate art collections, the Bank of America Collection is noted for its high quality, stylistic diversity, historical depth and attention to regional identity.

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Jaguar’s Spots at Lowe Art Museum (Miami)

Jaguar’s Spots: Ancient Mesoamerican Art from the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Lowe Art Museum
June 26-October 31, 2010
The University of Miami Lowe Art Museum’s summer exhibition will include objects from ancient Mexico through Panama that explore the complex relationship between art and the natural world. Jaguar’s Spots: Ancient Mesoamerican Art from the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami will be on view from June 26-October 31, 2010.

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Alternative Humanities: Jan Fabre x Funakoshi Katsura

Alternative Humanities: Jan Fabre x Funakoshi Katsura
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
April 29 – 31 August, 2010
A large-scale exhibition devoted to Jan FABRE and Katsura FUNAKOSHI —two of today’s most influential artists. The exhibition will individually explore the spiritual sources of each artist in religious icons appearing in masterworks of history and thereby consider the character of 21st-century man.

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Ghirlandaio and the Renaissance in Florence

Ghirlandaio and the Renaissance in Florence
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
23 June – 10 October 2010
This summer the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza will be presenting the temporary exhibition Ghirlandaio and the Renaissance in Florence. Comprising a survey of quattrocento Florentine art, its starting point is one of the great icons in the Museum’s permanent collection: Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni, painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio between 1489 and 1490.

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Roman Muradov won Commonwealth Club graphic novel contest

As part of the “Rise of the Graphic Novel” panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club on Monday, April 25, 2010, the Commonwealth Club organized a cartooning contest for local artists. The winner of the contest, Roman Muradov, will have his artwork featured on the Cartoon Art Museum’s website.

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Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and the Centre Pompidou (CP) from Paris take a step forward in strengthening cultural alliances between Singapore and France

The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and the Centre Pompidou (CP) from Paris take a step forward this morning in strengthening cultural alliances between Singapore and France in the field of contemporary art. Both sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for future cooperation to enhance the development and showcase of contemporary art, building upon a wider government-to-government framework agreement signed by Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the French Republic Bernard Kouchner in January last year.

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Kenneth Noland at Guggenheim Museum

Kenneth Noland, 1924–2010: A Tribute
Guggenheim Museum
May 21 – June 20, 2010
In honor of the late Kenneth Noland (b. April 10, 1924, Asheville, N.C.; d. January 5, 2010, Port Clyde, Maine), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Kenneth Noland, 1924–2010: A Tribute, on view in the level 4 Thannhauser Gallery from May 21 to June 20. One of the great American abstract painters of the second half of the twentieth century, Noland had his first major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 1977.

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Raphaele Shirley at Chelsea Art Museum

Raphaele Shirley: 0910 Light Shots
Chelsea Art Museum
May 21 – June 19, 2010
The Chelsea Art Museum is pleased to present 0910 Light Shots by Raphaele Shirley, a site-specific multi-media artwork for The Project Room for New Media. In this new work Raphaele displays her dexterity in use of diverse mediums and materials such as light, fog, sensors and mirrors by which she carves ephemeral sculptures in time and space, re-evaluating elemental yet elusive aspects of the world around us.

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Collecting the New at IMMA

Collecting the New
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
19 May – 8 August 2010
An exhibition presenting artworks recently acquired for IMMA’s Collection, marking the first occasion that these works have been shown at the Museum as part of that Collection, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 19 May 2010. Collecting the New comprises some 42 works which have, for the most part, been acquired since 2005, through purchase, donation and loans.

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May 2010: the return of HAPPYSPRITZ@GUGGENHEIM!

After its successful debut in 2009, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Aperol invite visitors to HAPPYSPRITZ@GUGGENHEIM, the ‘art’ aperitif, which last year attracted to the museum over 4,000 people who shared a cocktail of culture, music and Aperol in the magical setting of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. Every Monday in May (3, 10, 17, 24 and 31), from 7pm till 9.30pm, Peggy’s palazzo will open its doors again to young people, as well as the less young, for an evening rendezvous in the name of art, music and spritz.

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The Pastoral Vision – British Prints, 1800 – Present

The Pastoral Vision – British Prints, 1800 – Present
Delaware Art Museum
May 15 – August 15, 2010
The Delaware Art Museum presents The Pastoral Vision—British Prints, 1800 – Present, featuring more than 20 lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts, on view May 15, 2010 – August 15, 2010. This exhibition explores British printmaking from the 19th century to the present, focusing on landscapes by artists such as James McNeil Whistler, Edward Lear, and Rachel Whiteread. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s permanent collection, with many pieces rarely on view, the selection will provide insights into the changing nature of prints and Britain’s pastoral beauty.

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