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Charles Seliger

Seeing the World Within: Charles Seliger in the 1940s
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
9 June – 16 September 2012
This exhibition brings to Venice and to Italy for the first time a corpus of works—thirty‐three paintings and drawings—by American Surrealist painter, Charles Seliger (1926‐2009), working in the 1940s, the beginning of his career, that trace his rapid development from youthful enthusiasm and talent to a mature artist, confident in his own, original artistic vision.

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Ives Maes

Ives Maes
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
June 28–Sept. 9
For his first solo American exhibition, Belgian artist Ives Maes explores the architecture of world’s fair sites as they look today in The Future of Yesterday: Photographs of Architectural Remains at World’s Fairs June 28–Sept. 9 in Bloch Lobby of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. In 16 dramatic photographic sculptures, Maes investigates the effect of time, place and context on the remains of these global events.

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Marlene Miller

I Look, I Listen: Works on Paper by Marlene Miller
Michener Art Museum
July 14 – October 14, 2012
I Look, I Listen: Works on Paper by Marlene Miller is on view in the Pfundt Gallery, James A. Michener Art Museum, July 14 through October 14, 2012. This exhibit is sponsored by Mary Lou and Andrew Abruzzese, The Pineville Tavern.

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Jean Metzinger

Cycling, Cubo‐Futurism and the 4th Dimension. Jean Metzinger’s “At the Cycle‐Race Track”
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
June 9 – September 16, 2012
Opening June 9 (through September 16, 2012), the exhibition Cycling, Cubo‐Futurism and the 4th Dimension. Jean Metzinger’s “At the Cycle‐Race Track” focuses on a painting acquired by Peggy Guggenheim in 1945 and now permanently on view in her museum in Venice.

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Arab Express

Arab Express
Mori Art Museum
Saturday 16 June – Sunday 28 October, 2012
From lifestyles to identity, the rapidly transforming Arab world possesses a diversity of cultures that cannot be overstated. And the traditions, religion, customs and aesthetics that constitute that diversity are vividly reflected in the work of the region’s artists.

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Irving Penn

Irving Penn: Diverse Worlds
Moderna Museet Malmö
16 June – 2 September, 2012
For the first time in the Öresund region, a rich selection of Irving Penn’s photographs from some of his most famous serial photography will be presented. His innovative fashion features, portraits and still-lifes made Irving Penn one of the leading photographers of our time. Spanning more than 60 years, his career is characterised by a cool, minimalist approach to the medium. With a selection of nearly 90 works and samples from his assignments for numerous publications, the exhibition at Moderna Museet Malmö covers a broad spectrum of Irving Penn’s oeuvre.

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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 Designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

The Serpentine Gallery is proud to announce that Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei will create the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. It will be the twelfth commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind.

The design team responsible for the celebrated Beijing National Stadium, which was built for the 2008 Olympic Games, comes together again in London in 2012 for the Serpentine’s acclaimed annual commission, being presented as part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. The Pavilion is Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei’s first collaborative built structure in the UK.

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Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono: Grapefruit
Moderna Museet in Stockholm
6 June 2012 – 16 September 2012
Yoko Ono is a pioneer of conceptualism and the international Fluxus movement, and has been sharing her message of peace and love with the world for nearly 60 years. The Moderna Museet exhibition highlights Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit from 1964 and features selected instruction pieces that encourage new, imaginative ways of looking at life and creating art. For the exhibition Yoko Ono has made a new piece called Summer Dream and a new instruction piece, that some 20 artists have been invited to respond to. Moreover, Yoko Ono will realise two of her works together with the public on Djurgården in Stockholm during the full-moon night between 4 and 5 June.

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Susie Cagle

Small Press Spotlight on Susie Cagle
Cartoon Art Museum
June 23 – September 23, 2012
Beginning on June 23, 2012, the Cartoon Art Museum’s ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Susie Cagle.

Susie Cagle is a journalist and cartoonist living and working in Oakland. She has drawn true stories in comic books since 2008, including the Nine Gallons series on San Francisco food justice activism, published by Microcosm. Most recently she has been drawing a book about the Occupy movement; she has only been arrested twice while working on it.

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Artist-in-Residence Andre Woodward to Showcase Sculptures

Artist-in-Residence Andre Woodward to Showcase Sculptures Public to Interact and Experience Art and Artist IRVINE, Calif., June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Visitors can meet the Great Park’s latest Artist-in-Residence Andre Woodward and view his sculptures and artwork at the Artists Studios in the Palm Court Arts Complex from June through October 2012, Saturdays and Sundays between […]

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Boston Caterer Broadway Gourmet Partners with deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum for US Premier of Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans Exhibit

Boston Caterer Broadway Gourmet Partners with deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum for US Premier of Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans Exhibit BOSTON, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Broadway Gourmet partners with deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum on British sculptor Gary Webb‘s first US museum solo exhibition opening event.  Hundreds of local and national art enthusiasts gathered to […]

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Thornton Dial

Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial
Mint Museum
6/30/12 – 9/30/12
Thornton Dial is a keen observer of the human spectacle and its narratives of corruption and moral strength, folly and triumph. As an artist, he has spent the last two decades exploring the truth of American history and culture in all its complexities and contradictions. This exhibition presents a major survey of Dial’s work, an epic gathering of over fifty large-scale paintings, sculptures and wall assemblages that address the most compelling issues of our time.

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