Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape

Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)
July 18, 2010 – January 2, 2011
he Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) will present Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, a multifaceted exhibition that explores the dialogue between artists and the urban landscape, opening July 18, 2010 at MCASD’s downtown Jacobs Building location. The exhibition, which will feature works both in the Museum’s galleries as well as at public sites throughout downtown San Diego, will be on view through January 2, 2011.

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Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

The Boards representing the members of The Nordic Commission have together adopted a new format for future collaboration in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. This will take effect with the next biennale in 2011.

To revitalise the exhibiting conditions for this important manifestation, one Nordic country will take responsibility, in turns, for the management and curating of the exhibition in the pavilion.

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Ed Ruscha at Moderna Museet

Ed Ruscha: 50 years of painting
Moderna Museet Stockholm
29 May 2010 – 5 September 2010
Ed Ruscha’s paintings are ambiguous and provocative, recycling scraps from popular culture and redefining established genres. Was he one of the first pop artists, a trailblazer for conceptual art, a late surrealist, a pioneer of postmodernism, or – actually – a bit of everything?

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A Year with Children 2010

A Year with Children 2010
annual exhibition of artworks by NYC public school students
Guggenheim Museum
May 14–June 20, 2010
Completing its 39th year, Learning Through Art (LTA), the pioneering arts education program of the Guggenheim Museum, presents A Year with Children 2010, an exhibition organized by the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Guggenheim Museum and on view at the museum from May 14 to June 20, 2010.

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Artist File 2010

Artist File 2010: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art
National Art Center Tokyo
March 3 – May 5, 2010
The Artist File exhibition introduces a group of currently active artists whose work is among the most noteworthy, both in Japan and abroad. This year’s event, the third in the series, features seven artists (six Japanese, one foreign): FUKUDA Naoyo, ISHIDA Takashi, KUWAKUBO Toru, Aernout MIK, MINAMINO Kaoru, O JUN, SAITO Chisato.

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National Iron

National Iron
Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
May 6 – August 29, 2010
This national exhibition of cast iron art is sponsored by the Western Cast Iron Art Alliance (WCIAA) and the Missoula Art Museum. The opening will coincide with the WCIAA Conference – held in Missoula for the first time, May 6-11, 2010. The exhibition serves as a survey of the diverse national collection of artwork made in the medium of cast iron.

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Peggy in Venice. Photographed by Nino Migliori

Peggy in Venice. Photographed by Nino Migliori
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
April 7– July 26, 2010
In 1958, Peggy Guggenheim was photographed by celebrated Italian photographer Nino Migliori (b. 1929) in her Venetian home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, now the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year. Led by his considerable intellectual curiosity, Nino Migliori spent much time in Venice in the late 1950s. He frequented artists such as Emilio Vedova, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Giuseppe Santomaso, Virgilio Guidi and occasionally even Peggy Guggenheim, who was a focal point for Italian Abstract painters in post-war years, particularly Vedova and Tancredi.

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Virgil Grotfeldt, 274296

Virgil Grotfeldt, 274296
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
April 24 – July 11, 2010
274296 is the final body of work of Grotfeldt, one of Houston’s leading artists, who died from cancer on Feb. 24, 2009. He had been treated for lymphatic illness at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center since 1993, when he was first assigned the patient number 274296. The 18 oil paintings that comprise the exhibit incorporate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of Grotfeldt’s own brain.

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Rusty Scruby: Playing in the Sand

Rusty Scruby: Playing in the Sand
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
April 24 – July 11, 2010
The 19 analytically derived two and three-dimensional works included in this exhibition demonstrate the perfect balance Scruby achieves by blending his learned abilities in math and music with art. Using a series of repetitious photographs, drawings, paper or plastic, he cuts, folds and weaves together complex constructions.

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The Walters Art Museum receives $315,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has granted the Walters Art Museum $315,000 for a 2 1/2 year project to digitize, catalog and distribute 105 illuminated medieval manuscripts. Representing diverse Byzantine, Greek, Armenian, Ethiopian, Dutch, English and Central European cultures, this project, entitled Parchment to Pixel: Creating a Digital Resource of Medieval Manuscripts, will allow for the digitization of approximately 38,000 pages of ancient text and 3,500 pages of illumination.

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Julia Curyło: Lambs of God

Undercover of the night, the 35 sq m. mural entitled “Lambs of God” was removed from one of the wall in a desolate underground station in Warsaw. The work by Julia Curyło, one of the most interesting Polish artists of the new generation, was removed more than a month before the end of its presentation due to… the forthcoming Easter. This famous mural at the Marymont station, as well as other works of the artist, open a useful debate on the relation between the sacred and the secular at the beginning of the third millennium.

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