Have Gags Will Travel: The Life and Times of a New York Cartoonist
Michener Art Museum
March 10 – July 1, 2012
In the 1950s, Rosie the Riveter morphed into Betty Crocker, and Madison Avenue’s seductive images of happiness and contentment in the home governed women’s lives. Sylvia Getsler chose a different path.
To Stir, Inform and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth
Michener Art Museum
June 2 – September 23, 2012
Tony Auth’s cartoons, seemingly simple and always direct, have influenced public opinion and politicians for more than 40 years. “Our job is not to amuse our readers,” Auth says of a national artistic heritage of editorial cartooning that began with Benjamin Franklin in 1754. “Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them.”
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art
22 February 2012 – 20 May 2012
An exhibition of more than 100 photographs drawn from the renowned Bank of America Collection, one of the largest and most comprehensive corporate art collections in the world, opens to the public in Dublin at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 22 February 2012.
Image Comics: A 20th Anniversary Celebration
Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco
February 4 – April 29, 2012
In 1992, seven of the most popular comic book artists in the world joined forces to create Image Comics, a company specializing in the publication of creator-owned comics and graphic novels.
Puss in Boots
Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco
February 1 – April 22, 2012
Puss in Boots, the Academy Award® Best Animated Feature nominee from DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is the subject of an impressive new art exhibition at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum. This 20-piece exhibit provides a behind-the-scenes overview of the development of the 2011 hit animated feature film. From preliminary character sketches to fully rendered digital landscapes, visitors can experience Puss in Boots as they have never before with this insiders look at DreamWorks’ latest animated film.
FOCUS: Katie Paterson
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
March 4-April 15, 2012
Katie Paterson, born 1981 in Glasgow, Scotland, is quickly gaining international attention for her minimal works that tackle such profound notions as the expanse of space, the breadth of nature, and the overall immensity of life.
OSRAM COLLECTION – a brief overview
OSRAM GALLERY MUNICH
February 3 – May 15, 2012
With works from Carlos de Los Ríos, Oliver Westerbarkey, Katja Eckert, Christopher Lewis, Leopold Rabus, Peter Senoner and others
Geniuses of Modern British Sculpture
Robert Bowman Modern
1st March– 20th April 2011
In March 2012, Robert Bowman Modern will be holding a selling exhibition of the greatest Modern British Sculptors. 2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the seminal 1952 Venice Biennale that first introduced the exciting work of a new group of young British sculptors including Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, Bernard Meadows, Edouardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull.
Istanbul Modern – Rotterdam
A Selection from the Collection of Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
10 March – 10 June 2012
This spring Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be showing a selection of works from the Collection of Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, the first private museum in Turkey that organizes modern and contemporary art exhibitions. The exhibition, put together by the Chief Curator of stanbul Modern, Levent Çalıkoglu, is the first large-scale show of contemporary art from Turkey in Rotterdam.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Parallel Worlds
Moderna Museet
11 February – 6 May, 2012
Eija-Liisa Ahtila is one of the most internationally recognised Nordic contemporary artists. Since her breakthrough in the 1990s, she has been a trailblazer in the development of cinematic installations. Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s works operate in the borderlands – questioning and exploring the conventions of the cinematic idiom and challenging habitual perspectives. Her position in the world of film became clear to a wider audience when she was on the jury for feature films at the Venice Film Festival in 2011.
Joan Hernandez Pijuan – Retrospective
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
January 30 – March 11, 2011
Joan Hernandez Pijuan (1931-2005) is one of the most celebrated Spanish painters of the last decades. He produces compositions through uniform planes of neutral color in a simple yet expressive style. Pijuan has received many honors and prizes and is reckoned among the most significant European artists of the 20th & 21st centuries.
John McNamara: A Survey of Paintings
Gallery Bergelli
February 10 – March 7
John McNamara makes surrealist photo-collages and then slowly covers with them with a layer of oil paint, mixing not only figuration and abstraction, but also raising questions about representation in the way that many photographers of constructed realities are also doing, writes DeWitt Cheng in catalog essay accompanying the exhibition.