Women Collared for Work

Women Collared for Work
Delaware Art Museum
February 6, 2010 – March 21, 2010
The Delaware Art Museum presents Women Collared for Work, featuring paintings, drawings, sculptures, and mixed media installations by eight female artists, on view February 6, 2010 – March 21, 2010. The artists explore both the well-known contributions and anonymous stories of women spanning more than 100 years of history—1889 to 1999. They interpret the collar as a symbol for the restraint, inspiration, and innovation of powerful female icons representing a range of occupations.

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Shanghai

Shanghai
Asian Art Museum
February 12 – September 5, 2010
From February 12 through September 5, 2010, the Asian Art Museum presents Shanghai, the first exhibition of its kind to explore the visual culture of one of the world’s most intriguing cities. Spanning the time period from Shanghai’s origins as a modest regional center to the dynamic, cosmopolitan, global powerhouse of today, the exhibition reflects upon the history of the city over the past 160 years using art as its mirror.

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Hans-Peter Feldmann at Malmö Konsthall

Hans-Peter Feldmann
Malmö Konsthall
20.2 – 2.5 2010
Hans-Peter Feldmann was born in Germany in 1941, lives and works in Düsseldorf. He has produced a vast amount of works during the last forty years. Feldmann is widely recognised for his conceptual approach to books, photography, found images and other material.

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Anne Wenzel at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Intervention # 13 Anne Wenzel
Requiem of Heroism
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
From 6 February 2010
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s Intervention #13 presents recent work by Rotterdambased artist Anne Wenzel (1972). Wenzel is showing a steel and ceramic installation made specially for the museum. The installation Requiem of Heroism – an abandoned heroic monument – was developed at the European Ceramic Workcentre.

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Ritsue Mishima

Ritsue Mishima, frozen garden/ “fruits of fire”
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
6 February – 30 May 2010
Ritsue Mishima, one of today’s leading glass designers, is filling a Japanese winter garden in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen with glass objects. It will be a garden that plays with the inspiring Dutch light, captured differently each time by the Venetian glass.

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Moore Adventures in Wonderland

Moore Adventures in Wonderland
Rosenbach Museum & Library
September 23, 2009 – June 6, 2010
The Rosenbach Museum & Library’s new exhibition Moore Adventures in Wonderland, currently on view through June 6, 2010, is a Marianne Moore and Alice in Wonderland-inspired installation, created by Rosenbach Artist-in-Residence, Sue Johnson. The exhibition investigates the Rosenbach’s collection of the work of author Lewis Carroll and Modernist American poet and writer Marianne Moore and uncovers the unexpected connections between the two.

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Govett-Brewster hits 40

2010 marks the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s fortieth year of sustained and dynamic contribution to the cultural life of Aotearoa New Zealand.

To celebrate the milestone, a vigorous year-long programme of events has been organised commencing with a spectacular artist-led multimedia and performance event in New Plymouth on 27 March – echoing the spirit of the street party that officially opened the Gallery in 1970.

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Trying is Buying – Jacob Jongert 1883-1942

Trying is Buying – Jacob Jongert 1883-1942
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
19 December 2009 – 18 April 2010
Jacob Jongert (1883-1942) is one of the first advertising designers in the Netherlands. His career takes flight after he is given the advertising assignment for the tea, coffee and tobacco factories of Wed. J. Van Nelle. This is the start of a series of thousands of designs for the firm, for whom Jongert creates a recognizable image with clear shapes and primary colours.

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Pieter Aertsen and the world in disarray

Pieter Aertsen and the world in disarray
Rijksmuseum
2 February – 19 April 2010

From 2 February through 19 April 2010, the Rijksmuseum will present a small exhibition on the 16th century artist Pieter Aertsen. This marks the first occasion in a long time that his work, including the famous painting The Egg Dance (1552), will once again be on display in the Rijksmuseum. The exhibition is being organised in honour of head curator Wouter Kloek, who is leaving the museum.

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Portscapes

Portscapes
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
6 February – 25 April 2010
In 2009 several national and international artists undertook an artistic journey of discovery into the past, present and future of the Port of Rotterdam under the umbrella title of Portscapes, drawing inspiration from the port. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing ten art projects that resulted from it in a high-profile exhibition.

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The Subversion of Images – Surrealism, Photography, Film

The Subversion of Images – Surrealism, Photography, Film Fotomuseum Winterthur February 27 – May 23, 2010 From February 27 to May 23, 2010, the Fotomuseum Winterthur is presenting the exhibition The Subversion of Images–Surrealism, Photography, Film, an extraordinarily rich survey of Surrealist photography. The exhibition comprises over 400 photographs, films, and documents: from the most […]

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Divided Divided – Carsten Höller

Divided Divided – Carsten Höller Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 6 February – 25 April 2010 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will shortly stage Carsten Höller’s exhibition Divided Divided. The contemporary artist is creating a 1,500 m2 installation especially for the museum. What’s more, visitors can spend the night in the Revolving Hotel Room. All the works […]

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