The Art Institute of Chicago announced today the appointment of Karen Kice to the position of Neville Bryan Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture and Design , effective immediately. Kice will join Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, in building and strengthening the Art Institute’s holdings of contemporary architecture. […]
The Michener Art Museum Board of Directors is pleased to announce Lisa Tremper Hanover as the museum’s new Director and CEO. She succeeds Bruce Katsiff, who has been at the helm since 1989. Hanover has been director, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, for nearly a quarter century, where she also is […]
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is pleased to announce that the BMW Guggenheim Lab will open in the Pfefferberg complex, in the Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg. The BMW Guggenheim Lab—a temporary public space and online forum encouraging open dialogue about issues related to urban living—will offer free public programs from June 15 to July […]
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) and Gateway Foundation are pleased to present the fifth edition of Great Rivers Biennial. Opening on Friday, May 11, 2012, this exhibition demonstrates how artists based in the St. Louis area dynamically engage with the issues, stylistic tendencies, and techniques that define the contemporary art and culture of our time. The Great Rivers Biennial 2012 winners are David Johnson, Asma Kazmi, and Mel Trad, who have developed individual projects in photography, multimedia installation, and sculpture, respectively.
Pablo Helguera: Chipilo
The Promenade Gallery
April 4 – April 20, 2012
Gallery On The Move presents Pablo Helguera’s “Chipilo” in collaboration with The Promenade Gallery in Vlora. Chipilo is a documentary based on the story of a town of the same name, located in the vicinity of the city of Puebla, Mexico.
Nicola Lazzari’s latest exhibition of drawings and sculpture entitled Cataste opens at Trinity Fine Art on 10 May 2012. The inspiration for the new work is the neatly arranged cataste or stacks of wooden poles that are seen throughout the Tuscan countryside. Dotted around fields and vineyards these wooden poles fulfill multiple functions as supports […]
Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun
Art Institute of Chicago
February 25–June 3, 2012
In the first exhibition devoted to the artist in the United States, Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun explores the prescient and provocative work of French Surrealist Claude Cahun. Born Lucy Schwob to a family of French Jewish intellectuals and writers, Claude Cahun–who adopted the pseudonym at age 22–is best known for the staged self-portraiture, photomontages, and prose texts she made principally between 1920 and 1940.
The twelfth edition of Master Drawings London is taking place between 27 June-5 July 2012. The dates have been brought forward to better reflect the material shown during the week, while also coinciding with the 20th century auctions that take place at the end of June, as well as the Old Master sales which happen during the first week
of July. Leading drawings specialists from London, New York, Düsseldof, Zurich, and Madrid showcase seven centuries of drawings and watercolours from the Renaissance and to the present day.
Jindřich Heisler: Surrealism under Pressure
Art Institute of Chicago
March 31, 2012-July 1, 2012
In the first solo retrospective of the artist in the world, the Art Institute explores the rich and concise oeuvre of Czech poet, photographer, and object-maker Jindřich Heisler in Jindřich Heisler: Surrealism under Pressure. Heisler, the child of a mixed-faith marriage, joined the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia in 1938, on the eve of the Nazi dismemberment of his country.
Aida Makoto
Mori Art Museum
17 November 2012 – 31 March 2013
For more than 20 years since his debut in the early 1990s, Aida Makoto has brought a critical perspective to such subjects as Japan, the United States, history, tradition, manga, war, salarymen, pretty young girls, art, and education system, touching upon contradictions in Japanese society, politics and economics during the period of modernization in the Meiji and subsequent periods followed by the rapid economic growth after the Second World War, as well as mass culture and the system surrounding visual art practice that emerged in the wake of these changes.
Kurt Blum – The Photographic Oeuvre
Fotostiftung Schweiz
9 June – 14 October 2012
Kurt Blum, born in Berne in 1922, is one of the outstanding Swiss photographers of the post-war era. Starting in the 1950s, he did numerous reportages for newspapers and magazines, alongside free artistic and experimental works which he also publicised in exhibitions.
Pure luxury on paper
Rijksmuseum
8 May-9 July 2012
From 8 May, the Rijksmuseum will be exhibiting a selection of 30 works from two new donations of Japanese prints. Luxury, subtlety, technical perfection, expressiveness and, of course, beautiful Japanese women all feature prominently in these new collections, recently donated by two leading collectors.