Nelson Shanks: A Brush with Reality
Michener Art Museum
June 8-September 8, 2013
The Michener Art Museum will be exhibiting the paintings of Nelson Shanks June 8 through September 8, 2013 in the Putman Smith Gallery. Nelson Shanks: A Brush with Reality brings together more than 20 major paintings from public and private collections around the country and from the artist’s personal collection.
French Twist: Masterworks of Photography from Atget to Man Ray
Delaware Art Museum
June 29, 2013 – September 15, 2013
In the early 20th century, between the two World Wars, Paris saw a fervor of change. From 1910 to 1940, the city became a creative epicenter for artistic exploration, attracting international avant-garde artists–including photographers experimenting with Surrealism, Modernism, and the new reportage. French Twist: Masterworks of Photography from Atget to Man Ray, on view at the Delaware Art Museum from June 29, 2013 through September 15, 2013, features 100 vintage prints from this golden age of French photography and explores the variety and inventiveness of native and immigrant photographers working in France in the early 20th century.
Omer Fast
May 8 – June 19, 2013
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
From May 8 to June 19, 2013, as part of its Projections series, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is presenting Omer Fast’s work Continuity (2012) in the Beverley Webster Rolph Hall. Omer Fast is among those contemporary artists whose goal is an in-depth analysis of the space and narrative form of cinema. Employing a documentary form that fuses personal accounts, reportages, interviews and reenactments, his films often feature “protagonists” of recent wars and armed conflicts. Continuity a disturbing and unsettling blur of fact and fiction is often described as a work about loss and grief.
Lost in Translation
MMOMA projects within 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni , 3246 Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy
May 29 through September 15, 2013
Jane Waggoner Deschner: Often, All That Remains
Missoula Art Museum
May 3 – August 25, 2013
Missoula Art Museum is pleased to host Often, All That Remains created by Billings, MT artist Jane Waggoner Deschner. This new work has a different sensibility. In Often, All That Remains the works are generated from discarded and abandoned photographs. According to Deschner there are three elements that come together in this body of work.
DENVER, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Michelangelo Exhibition is currently open at Denver Pavilions located in Downtown Denver. The museum-quality exhibition will be held at the location next to H&M, the same location that formerly housed the DaVinci Machines Exhibition. This is the first time the exhibit has ever been shown in North America. […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — For years, her delicate, detailed illustrations of nature’s beauty have helped millions of Hallmark card-senders reach out to others with messages of caring. And later this month, world-renowned Dutch artist Marjolein Bastin will be honored for all she has done to bring people together through her art […]
The highly anticipated expansion to the Kimbell Art Museum, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) and Kendall/Heaton Associates, opens to the public on November 27, 2013. Renzo Piano’s colonnaded pavilion stands as an expression of simplicity—glass, concrete and wood—surrounded by elms and red oaks, some 65 yards to the west of Louis I. […]
The Latino Comics Expo, the nation’s first convention focusing on Latino creators and Latino-themed subject matter, returns for its third consecutive year at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, from Saturday, June 1 to Sunday, June 2, 2013.
Dalí. All of the poetic suggestions and all of the plastic possibilities
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
April 27 – September 2, 2013
The Museo Reina Sofía presents a major exhibition dedicated to Salvador Dalí, one of the most comprehensive shows yet held on the artist from Ampurdán.
Visceral Sensation — Voices So Far, So Near
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
April 27, 2013 – September 1, 2013
Our organs contain life memory and life rhythms from the far distant past, according to anatomist MIKI Shigeo (1925-1987). Miki’s observations of human behavior, senses, and emotions have profoundly influenced diverse fields.
SUPERMAN: A 75th Anniversary Celebration
Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition
May 11 – September 8, 2013
“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!”
The Cartoon Art Museum celebrates the 75th anniversary of Superman, The Man of Steel with an exhibition exploring the long and storied history of The Last Son of Krypton, from his earliest incarnation when he launched the Golden Age of comics through his bizarre adventures in the Silver Age of comics to the modern era, where he continues his never-ending battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.