Behind the Vault Doors

Behind the Vault Doors
Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
June 11 – August 31, 2010
MAM’s Behind the Vault Doors exhibit is part of a statewide collaborative venture between six Montana museums spurred on by the film project of Allen Powers. This project highlights the rich artistic heritage found in the collections of our Montana museums, home to many of our most precious cultural treasures. Powers is concerned that these collections too often remain hidden from the public “behind vault doors”.

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Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom

Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom
Michener Art Museum
June 26 – October 10, 2010
For twelve million people, Ellis Island was the doorway to a new life, with the hopes and dreams of several generations of immigrants beginning and sometimes ending there. Understandably, this American landmark in New York Harbor has deeply inspired many artists. Most notably, the legendary photographer Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented the human drama as it unfolded at the immigration center in the early 1900s, while the acclaimed contemporary photographer Stephen Wilkes captured the long-abandoned buildings of the island’s hospital complex nearly 100 years later.

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Runa Islam at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

Runa Islam
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 21 – September 6, 2010
Through her works, Islam pursues an investigation of the history of experimental film, doing away with narrative structures and representations in favour of visual explorations. The Montréal presentation focuses on the artist’s fascination with cinema as a device. It consists of five 16-mm film installations produced over the last six years, including a 2010 work commissioned by the two presenting museums.

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David K. Ross at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

David K. Ross  Attaché
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 21 – September 6, 2010
In this new series of photographs titled Attaché, Québec artist David K. Ross continues his examination of the world behind the scenes of art and museology. Previously, with Dark Rooms, Ross explored the places where works, crates and materials are stored.

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Yesterday’s Tomorrows

Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 21 – September 6, 2010
Why are so many contemporary artists revisiting the forms, ideas and aspirations of early Modernism? That highly topical question is the crux of the exhibition Yesterday’s Tomorrows that brings together works by ten Québec, Canadian and international artists who re-examine this pivotal period in the twentieth century.

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Kate Markert: Executive Director of Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, DC

The Walters Art Museum’s Director Gary Vikan announced today that Associate Director Kate Markert will be leaving the museum to become Executive Director of Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, DC. Markert will succeed Frederick J. Fisher, who has led Hillwood, a former estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post, for over 20 years. Markert’s last day at the Walters will be June 30, and she will assume leadership at Hillwood Aug. 2.

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Yael Bartana at Moderna Museet Malmö

Yael Bartana: and Europe will be stunned
Moderna Museet Malmö
May 22 – September 19, 2010
As our main exhibition this summer, Moderna Museet Malmö is proud to present the internationally acclaimed film artist Yael Bartana. The exhibition and Europe will be stunned will occupy the entire Turbine Hall, screening five of the artist’s most recent film productions, all balancing on a thin line between fact and fiction, history and future, rhetoric and propaganda.

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Amsterdam’s canal belt. The expansion of Amsterdam in the Golden Age.

On the canals of Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum
1 June – 6 September, 2010
From 1 June, the Rijksmuseum will be hosting an exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings showing the spectacular expansion of 17th-century Amsterdam. A number of maps from the Rijksmuseum’s own collection charting the expansion agreed on in 1662 will also be on display. Central to the exhibition are six views by Gerrit Berckheyde depicting the Gouden Bocht (Golden Bend) on the Herengracht Canal which was the richest part of the new city.

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Abode at IMMA

Abode
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
31 May – 15 June, 2010
Abode, an exhibition developed through the continued successful partnership between Art Alongside and IMMA’s National Programme, opens to the public at Wexford Arts Centre on Monday 31 May 2010. Art Alongside is a visual arts project working with children in primary schools which aims to provide a dynamic and relevant experience of the visual arts to the children and adults of County Wexford.

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Alexandra Exter at Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Alexandra Exter – A Retrospective
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
May 29 – August 22, 2010
An unprecedented retrospective exhibition of works by Alexandra Exter hosted by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a truly remarkable event. Alexandra Exter, one of the ‘amazons’ and brightest stars of the Russian avant-garde, took part in most significant shows of the new art, including exhibitions of ‘Jack of Diamonds’ group and ‘Union of Youth’, ‘№ 4’ and ‘Tram B’, ‘Shop’, ‘5×5=25’ and so on. One cannot imagine innovative Russian art of the early 20th century without this artist’s oeuvre.

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Sylvie Fleury at KUBUS

Sylvie Fleury: WRITTEN ON THE WALL II
KUBUS
May 17 until August 1, 2010
Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury combines in her work divergent topics like esotericism and trash, fashion and motorsports, science fiction and art history. By connecting separate spheres she often plays off gender differences against each other: Soft, feminine bodies counter the masculine geometry of Stacks by Donald Judd. In advertising slogans for cosmetics she discovers an aesthetic relationship with the text pieces of Joseph Kosuth.

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