Emily Wardill: Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
September 9 – December 30, 2011
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is proud to present a solo exhibition of the work of British filmmaker Emily Wardill.
David Noonan
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
September 9 – December 30, 2011
The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis is organizing the first solo presentation of the work of London-based Australian artist David Noonan in an American museum.
Liu Kang: A Centennial Celebration
National Art Gallery, Singapore
29 July – 16 October 2011
To commemorate the 100th year of the birth of Liu Kang, a highly regarded and respected Singapore artist, the National Art Gallery, Singapore is organising Liu Kang: A Centennial Celebration. Featuring 100 artworks, sketches, writings and artefacts, the exhibition invites art enthusiasts and visitors alike to explore the life and mind of the prolific artist known for being one of the founders of the Nanyang movement.
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
April 14, 2012 – Aug 19, 2012
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939, a groundbreaking exhibition of extraordinary objects representing the pinnacle of science and artistic ingenuity, opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art April 14, 2012, and runs through Aug. 19 of that year. It then travels to Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, from Oct. 13, 2012–Feb. 24, 2013.
On Horizons – Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur
03.09.2011-20.05.2012
The photographic gaze into the horizon is a mirror for internal and external states and produces artistic interpretations and commentaries. As in other artistic genres, landscape in photography is interpreted through political and private gazes and the results go far beyond purely aesthetic experiences. Assembled from the collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, this exhibition shows how photographers since the mid-1960s have approached their imagery from a range of analytical and emotional standpoints.
Shirana Shahbazi – Much like Zero
Fotomuseum Winterthur
03.09.-13.11.2011
How real or abstract is photography? This question has preoccupied photography since its inception.
Metabolism, the City of the Future:Dreams and Visions of Reconstruction in Postwar and Present-Day Japan
Mori Art Museum
25 September – 3 January 2012
In the 1960s a group of Japanese architects dreamed of future cities and produced exciting new ideas.
Patty Wageman will take up the post of financial/deputy director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen on 1 November 2011.
Dan Colen
Gagosian Gallery
19 September – 29 October 2011
Working from personal experience with subjects often overlooked or considered rogue and delinquent by art and society, Colen explores the very essence of dichotomy through risk and affect, juggling immediacy of expression with technical perfection.
The ephemeral interactive installation by the artist Mary Brilli, Clin d’œil, in the Mausoleum of Bela Rosin, Turin, continues until 24 September.
New energy in design and art
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
15 October 2011 – 26 February 2012
For several decades artists and designers have been creating futuristic visions of a sustainable society. These innovative future visions are becoming increasingly relevant.
Wendy Red Star: My Home is Where My Tipi Sits Missoula Art Museum August 5 – November 27, 2011 MAM is pleased to present Wendy Red Star’s first solo museum exhibition My Home Is Where My Tipi Sits (Crow Country). Born in Billings, MT and raised on the nearby Crow Indian Reservation, Red Star’s visual […]