Existential questions about life and death permeate the entire work of painter Albin Egger-Lienz (1868–1926). Today his war images are regarded as poignant memorials, as warnings against the horrors of battle and violence. He was also deeply influenced by his experiences on the front as a war painter. From 7 March to 9 June 2014 […]
A triangular-shaped, glass-walled labyrinth designed by acclaimed artist and Kansas City native Robert Morris is being installed in the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This dynamic sculpture will provide visitors with an intimate experience, enticing them to interact with the art by winding through the glass maze. The installation […]
The Cartoon Art Museum presents Raw Fury: The Art of Mike Zeck in a career retrospective on display from April 5 to August 10, 2014. This exhibition features the most comprehensive collection of the fan-favorite artist’s most iconic artwork ever assembled, including The Punisher, G.I. Joe, The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars, and Captain […]
NEW ORLEANS, April 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Celebrating the arrival of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Angela King Gallery will present “The Jazz Fest Show” an exhibit by award-winning New Orleans photographer Steven Forster. Forster will show 15 archival black and white photos from his vault, including iconic images of: Ella Fitzgerald, Ray […]
Peter Weibel – A Retrospective 1964–2014
21er Haus
17 October 2014 to 11 January 2015
In the late 1960s, the rejection of sociopolitical conservatism with its traditional genderand class-specific role models manifested itself in radical upheavals in the arts: unconventional thinkers began to break up and merge the hitherto strictly separated genres of art and architecture.
As early as the late nineteenth century, both Berlin and Vienna were considered as rising metropolises. Nevertheless they have always, to the very present, represented divergent models of identification and different cultural self-concepts. Whereas the mutual exchange between the two cosmopolitan cities has already been intensively explored in terms of literature, theatre, and music, the juxtaposition of developments in the visual art and an analysis of their correlations constitute a blind spot. From an art historical perspective, they have merely been recognised in the form of individual biographic studies.
MONTREAL, March 28, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ – Thanks to its new L’art de partager cultural program launched to celebrate its 35th anniversary, the Collection Loto-Québec is pleased to present its travelling exhibition entitled Territoires imaginés, par les artistes de la Collection Loto-Québec. On the second stop of its tour, the exhibition will be at the […]
MONTREAL, April 22, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ – Musée de Lachine invites the public to visit a new temporary exhibition Disappearance, opening on May 1. The overstimulated societies in which we live impose a pace and a lifestyle that increasingly discourages us from stopping to look at images, from absorbing their various layers of meaning. Our […]
Exhibition Dates: April 5 – May 3, 2014 Closing Reception: Saturday, May 3, 2-5pm Artist Talk: Saturday, May 3, 1pm; RSVP as seating is limited.TORONTO, March 26, 2014 /CNW/ – Scott Conarroe (b. Edmonton, AB, 1974) first visited Beijing in the wake of the 2008 Summer Olympics. He returned to China briefly the following year […]
WHEN: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:00am: Media check-in and refreshments 10:30am: Remarks by newly appointed MOCA Director Philippe Vergne MOCA Curator Bennett Simpson Exhibition curator and former Director, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Ann Goldstein Executive Director, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Mary Clare Stevens 11:00am-1:00pm Exhibition preview, photography and interviews WHERE: The Geffen Contemporary […]
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The State Museum of Pennsylvania will open the special exhibit “A Fondness for Birds: Pennsylvania’s Alexander Wilson,” to the public on Friday, May 16, 2014. Hailed as the first artist-writer to scientifically capture and document American birds from life in naturalistic poses, Wilson’s published work preceded John James […]
ATLANTA, March 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen is getting ready for the return to Le Mans with a comprehensive special exhibition from March 26 to July 13, 2014. Porsche is taking a look back, not only to its multiple previous successes at the French endurance race, but to the present-day Le Mans […]