NEW YORK, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Tazza Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition “Essence,” new paintings by artist Alessandro Del Pero. It opens with a reception on May 16th and runs through June 9th. The show draws from two series of works that the artist has created while living and painting in Harlem. The […]
New Harmony: Abstraction between the Wars, 1919–1939
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Dates: May 10–September 8, 2013
This summer the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will explore a particularly rich facet of its twentieth-century collection with an exhibition celebrating the spirited trends in abstraction embraced among international artists working in Europe between the world wars.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Chris Lim of Lim Gallery is pleased to announce a new show at his Design Center gallery. On view through June 30th, 2013, the show is titled Dynamic Color and will feature the work of three San Francisco-based women artists including April Hankins and Sandra McPherson. Curated by independent […]
TORONTO, May 1, 2013 /CNW/ – Exhibition Dates: May 11 – June 15, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 2-5pm“The Bikeriders” features a selection of photographs by Danny Lyon, one of the most important documentary photographers and filmmakers to come of age in the 1960s, which chronicle the activities of the motorcycle world from 1963 […]
Weegee. Murder Is My Business
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia
May 3 – July 14, 2013
Gangland murders, gruesome car crashes, and perilous tenement fires were, for the photographer Weegee (1899—1968), the staples of his flashlit black-and-white work as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1930s. Such graphically dramatic and sometimes sensationalistic photographs of New York crimes and news events set the standard for what has since become known as tabloid journalism. In fact, for one intense decade, between 1935 and 1946, Weegee was perhaps the most relentlessly inventive figure in American photography.
Empire State. New York Art Now
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
23 April – 21 July 2013
Opening at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, on April 23, 2013, “Empire State” explores the constantly shifting realities and mythologies of New York City as a “New Rome.” Filling the Palazzo’s exhibition spaces, this ambitious intergenerational survey presents the work of twenty-five renowned and emerging New York City artists – each in depth and with important new work being shown for the first time – and suggests how they might re-imagine the relationship between their community and the life of the city through a unique grasp on its varied sources of power.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Lim Gallery is proud to announce the upcoming show Dynamic Color, which includes fine art and paintings by Patter Hellstrom, April Hawkins, and Saundra McPherson, on view through June 30th, 2013. Organized by Lim Gallery’s Chris Lim and curated by Patter Hellstrom, the exhibition features a recent collection […]
Niki de Saint Phalle: The Girl, the Monster and the Goddess
Moderna Museet in Stockholm
20 April 2013 – 27 October 2013
Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her colourful, voluptuous goddesses, her shooting paintings and the spectacular exhibition SHE – A Cathedral at the Moderna Museet in 1966. The exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle: The Girl, the Monster and the Goddess reflects her seminal role in art history, while also shedding light on a previously overlooked side to her oeuvre. The life-affirming goddess is juxtaposed with the girl and the monster in the film Daddy, where Niki de Saint Phalle avenges darker aspects of her childhood.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
June 1 – August 18, 2013
Fiery passion and the warm, festive atmosphere of Mexico define an exhibition opening on June 1 at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Masterpieces of Modern Mexico from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection showcases more than 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings collected by the Gelmans in their adopted homeland of Mexico.
Tino Sehgal
Irish Museum of Modern Art
12 April – 19 May 2013
A pioneering work by the British-German artist Tino Sehgal made up entirely of live encounters between people opens to the public on the second floor of the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s temporary exhibition space in Earlsfort Terrace on Friday 12 April 2013.
All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku Mori Art Museum April 26 – September 1, 2013 For human beings, love is the most precious of things. To mark its 10th anniversary, the Mori Art Museum will take the theme of “love.” Via around 200 works ranging from celebrated contributions to […]
Sensory Spaces
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
8 June – 29 September 2013
This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is launching a new exhibition format: ‘Sensory Spaces’. For the next three years high-profile, internationally active, contemporary artists will be invited to develop a work in relation to the Willem van der Vorm Gallery.