Small Press Spotlight on Karen Luk
Cartoon Art Museum
September 26 – December 4, 2011
Beginning on September 26, 2011, the Cartoon Art Museum’s ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Karen Luk.
Seven Screens
Herlinde Koelbl : Captivated by the look in your eye
OSRAM Building
9 November 2011 until 15 May 2012
The tenth video installation for the SEVEN SCREENS, which is to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the scheme’s inception, is devoted to people: the acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Herlinde Koelbl focuses on the meaning of our sense of sight.
Art Institute of Chicago
May 23-September 3, 2012
This exhibition, the first assessment of the full scope and breadth of Roy Lichtenstein’s career since his death in 1997, aims to offer a new, scholarly assessment of the work of this foremost Pop artist. Lichtenstein is an artist whose work is widely known, reproduced, copied, and parodied–he is an artist that we seem to know well but in fact the true diversity and complexity of his oeuvre is little understood.
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph
Art Institute of Chicago
December 13, 2011-March 11, 2012
There is a general consensus that new art of the 1960s and 1970s was heavily invested in photography. Not since the promotion in the 1920s of photomontage, photograms, and the “new vision” had so many painters and sculptors turned to photography for a renewal of artistic practice. Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 is the first major museum exhibition to examine that vanguard involvement in its full scope.
Alexander Sokolov «Apofigey»
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
September 21 – October 30, 2011
Alexander Sokolov (1941 — 2009), a renowned Moscow sculptor, belongs to the artistic generation of the 80s. He has had a number of solo and group shows in Russia and abroad.
Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered
Delaware Art Museum
November 12, 2011 – March 4, 2012
Howard Pyle (1853 – 1911) was one of America’s most popular illustrators and storytellers during a period of explosive growth in the publishing industry.
Streaming Museum will launch a global tour of the exhibition Revelation and Regeneration in commemoration of 9/11, at Big Screen Plaza, in New York City on September 19, 7-9 pm.
The exhibition will be on view throughout its network of screens in public spaces and partnering centers around the world through 2012.
Chris Johanson
Alright Alright
Malmö Konsthall
10 September – 27 November 2011
The American artist Chris Johanson (born 1968) is a self-taught product of San Francisco’s skateboard and graffiti culture. In his playful and humorous works he comments on what it is like to be human and live in today’s society. He works in widely varying media such as painting, film, installation and music.
Offering of the Angels (Il Pane degli Angeli)
James A. Michener Art Museum
April 21, 2012-August 11, 2012
For the first time ever, a selection of paintings and tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, by such Renaissance and Baroque masters as Sandro Botticelli, Il Parmigianino, Lorenzo Monaco, Il Guercino and Cristofano Allori, is coming to the United States.
The Painterly Voice: Bucks County’s Fertile Ground
Michener Art Museum
October 22, 2011 — April 1, 2012
Bucks County’s legacy of excellence in the art of canvas and brush is explored in this major exhibition organized by the Michener Art Museum. From the renowned 19th-century painters Edward Hicks and Martin Johnson Heade, to the gifted masters of landscape painting in the first half of the twentieth century, to the lively and inventive New Hope modernists, The Painterly Voice: Bucks County’s Fertile Ground will feature more than 200 works of art by Bucks County’s best-known historic artists.
Learning to See: Photographs by Nancy Hellebrand
Michener Art Museum
October 29, 2011 — February 26, 2012
Learning to See: Photographs by Nancy Hellebrand is a series of subtly colored, large-scale photographs combining individual pictures of tree branches. Each picture is more an abstract meditation than a mirror of nature. First, digital files are superimposed to make one combined image, and then several combined images are placed side by side. The images are connected by form,
Timothy O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photography
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
14 April – 8 agust 2012
The King Survey of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains, from 1867 to 1872, was the model for the other “great surveys” of the American West. Rare and iconic works by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, the King Survey’s official photographer, will be featured in an exhibition opening at the Art Institute of Chicago on Oct. 22.