Joey Blazek: Following Life’s Circle, Chasing My Coastal Tail
Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET)
October 27 – January 22
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) presents a selection of paintings by local artist and designer Joey Blazek on view in the museum’s Café Arts from Thursday, October 27 through Sunday, January 22. An artist’s reception will be held from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, October 30.
W. Barns-Graham: A Scottish artist in St Ives
The Fleming Collection
10 January – 5 April 2012
The painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is usually classified as a St Ives School artist yet her Scottish roots and her continuing close links with her homeland had a huge influence on her work. A major exhibition marking the centenary of her birth will be held at The Fleming Collection at 13 Berkeley Street, London W1 from 10 January to 5 April 2012.
The Three Graces
Art Institute of Chicago
October 29, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Photographs of celebrations, vacations, and gatherings of family and friends are taken and kept with the aim of preserving moments in life for future generations. What happens, however, when a snapshot becomes an image “type”–transferred into the hands of a collector and folded into a broader cultural history? This subject is explored in the Art Institute of Chicago’s The Three Graces–on view October 29, 2011, through January 22, 2012, in the museum’s Photography Galleries 3 and 4. The exhibition, featuring a private collection of more than 500 anonymous images depicting female trios, spans nearly a century of female role-playing for the camera.
TEFAF Maastricht will celebrate its Silver Jubilee when it opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from 16 – 25 March 2012. In the 25 years since The European Fine Art Fair was founded in 1988 it has established itself as the finest event of its kind in the […]
The Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts has acquired Sheila Hicks’ monumental bas relief, May I Have This Dance?, through a generous gift by Target Corporation. Originally commissioned by Target for their lobby headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2003, May I Have This Dance? has been recently reimagined, and reconfigured, for exhibitions […]
As part of the residency in Casa Tres Patios Medellin, Fani Zguro presents “Missing Landscape”, a screening looped with the partecipation of the other two artists Bruno Muzzolini and Anri Sala. Bruno Muzzolini in the video “Anema e Core” (2008) represents the nucleus of this exploration.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Cartoon Art Museum
November 12, 2011 – April 15, 2012
We’re off to see the Wizard! The Cartoon Art Museum celebrates The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with an exhibition featuring vintage newspaper tearsheets and original artwork spanning over 100 years of classic comics.
King Tut Exhibit Now Open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Texas debut for landmark exhibition Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, with more than 100 objects from the tomb of King Tut and other legendary ancient sites HOUSTON, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, […]
A major new artwork lights up the sky of Montreal entertainment district MONTREAL, Oct. 14 /CNW Telbec/ – The Quartier des Spectacles (Montreal Entertainment District) proudly introduces Articulated Intersect-Relational Architecture 18, created by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer for La Triennale québécoise 2011. Lozano-Hemmer’s kinetic sculptures have been shown in international events and museums around the world but […]
Zaha Hadid, Celebrates the Launch of her Third London Project, the Roca London Gallery LONDON, October 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ — The design proposal from the Zaha Hadid Architects’ studio successfully transforms what was once an ordinary space to an exciting new dimension in interiors. Zaha Hadid’s inspiration was elemental water in all its forms and the […]
Georges Duboeuf and Artist Kaves Unveil 2011 Nouveau Label “It’s about living in the moment and loving life” – Kaves NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — It’s a bold new pairing for Beaujolais. French wine producer Georges Duboeuf has collaborated with renowned Brooklyn artist Michael McLeer, a.k.a. Kaves, to create Nouveau Expression, a celebration […]
Warhol & Lichtenstein at the Monterey Museum of Art Pop Icons: Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein MONTEREY, Calif., Oct. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Monterey Museum of Art to host a new exhibition, Pop Icons: Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, October 29, 2011-February 26, 2012 at the Monterey Museum of Art-La Mirada, 720 Via Mirada, […]