FOCUS: Ben Jones Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth April 11-June 6, 2010 The third Director’s Council FOCUS exhibition for the 2009-2010 season will feature the work of American-born artist Ben Jones. Jones’ work investigates new methods of pictorial storytelling in the digital age. An interdisciplinary artist working in video, sculpture, painting, light painting and […]
African-American Art: Highlights from the Dr. Hervy Hiner Collection Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) Jan. 23 – April 11 2010 Visitors to AMSET will get the exclusive opportunity to view the extraordinary and diverse African-American art from the private collection of local nephrologist and entrepreneur, Dr. Hervy Hiner. This exhibition continues Southeast Texas Collects, […]
Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters Serpentine Gallery 3 March – 25 April 2010 To start its 40th anniversary year, the Serpentine Gallery presents Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters, a solo exhibition by one of the world’s most respected living artists. This will be the first major exhibition of Hamilton’s work in London since 1992. Hamilton […]
Batman: Yesterday and Tomorrow Cartoon Art Museum January 30 – June 6, 2010 For over 70 years, audiences have thrilled to the adventures of Batman, one of the most popular and enduring fictional characters of the modern age. From his first appearance in Detective Comics in 1939 to the blockbuster Dark Knight film of 2008, […]
Venice. 3 Visions in Glass Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 6 march – 15 august 2010 Three important contemporary artists who live in Venice and work on the island of Murano will be featured in the first exhibition of contemporary glass at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art when Venice. 3 Visions in Glass opens March 6. […]
Fall Out – Desire and Disengagement in Contemporary Art MALMÖ KONSTHALL – C-salen 14 January – 21 February 2010 The exhibition FALL OUT has been organised in collaboration with Gl Holtegaard and examines the system – and the nature of the breakdown of the system What does it look like when systems change? This question […]
Medicine and Art Mori Art Museum 28 november 2009 – 28 february 2010 For most human beings their own body represents both the most familiar and most unknown of worlds. From ancient times humans have sought to unravel the secret mechanisms of the body, developing in the process a wealth of medical expertise. At the […]
Heinrich Kühn Musée d’Orsay 18 October 2010 – 23 January 2011 Heinrich Kühn’s great ambition was to take artistic photographs that could rival painting. A major figure in international Pictorialism around 1900 and close to two of the movement’s great leaders, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, he developed a modernist style although he stayed within […]
Tino Sehgal Guggenheim Museum January 29–March 10, 2010 Tino Sehgal (b. 1976, London) constructs situations that defy the traditional context of museum and gallery environments, focusing on the fleeting gestures and social subtleties of lived experience rather than on material objects. Relying exclusively on the human voice, bodily movement, and social interaction, Sehgal’s works nevertheless […]
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) Musée d’Orsay 18 October 2010 – 23 January 2011 This exhibition is the first monographic exhibition on Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris and the first major exhibition since the pioneer show organised by Gerald Ackerman in 1972-1973 (Dayton Art Institute, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore). Perception of this artist has […]
Crime and Punishment Musée d’Orsay 15 March – 27 June 2010 On 30 September 1981, the French Minister of Justice Robert Badinter succeeded in having capital punishment abolished in France. Debates over the issue had dragged on for two centuries. Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau had asked the members of the constituent assembly to abolish capital […]
Art Nouveau Revival 1900 • 1933 • 1966 • 1974 Musée d’Orsay 20 October 2009 – 4 February 2010 Rejected and reviled in the decades after its brief flowering, Art Nouveau enjoyed a spectacular rehabilitation in the 1960s. This re-evaluation is a particularly interesting episode in the history of taste because it occurred in several […]