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Len Lye Centre (New Plymouth, New Zealand)

Crucial central government support announced today by the Minister for the Arts, Culture and Heritage the Hon. Christopher Finlayson is a critical step towards making the Len Lye Centre a reality.

Lance Girling-Butcher, New Plymouth District Councillor and Len Lye Committee Chairman, says the committee is delighted with the Minister’s announcement that the Len Lye Centre will receive support of $4 million over two years from the Government’s Regional Museums Policy for Capital Construction Costs.

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Quilt Art at Michener Art Museum

Quilt Art: International Expressions
Michener Art Museum
September 10 – December 31, 2011
The time-honored tradition of quilting is getting a modern art makeover in Quilt Art: International Expressions at the James A Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., September 10 to December 31 in the Fred Beans Gallery. Barbara Fighera Harrison is sponsor, with additional sponsorship from Mancuso Show Management.

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Tracey Emin at Southbank Centre (London)

Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want
Southbank Centre
18 May 2011 – 29 August 2011
Tracey Emin is one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists. This major survey exhibition covers every period of her career, revealing facets of the artist and her work that are often overlooked. The exhibition features painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video and sculpture, in works that are by turns tough, romantic, desperate, angry, funny and full of longing. Seldom-seen early works and recent large-scale installations are shown together with a new series of outdoor sculptures created especially for the Hayward Gallery.

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Helly Oestreicher at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam)

Helly Oestreicher: Small Works
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
25 June – 25 September 2011
This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing a selection of approximately thirty small works by Oestreicher (1936) in several vitrines and on the wall. In the early 1960s Helly Oestreicher was part of the innovative generation of Dutch ceramicists who redefined the discipline.

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George Condo at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam)

George Condo: Mental States
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
25 June – 25 September 2011
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has a unique collection of works by the Surrealists, including masterpieces by Dalí and Magritte. The work of George Condo (1957) has a surreal quality that complements this collection. The selection of works charts the artist’s development from 1983 to the present day. His paintings and sculptures explore the genre of portraiture, the human physiognomy and various ‘states of mind’.

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Master drawings London 2011

Master drawings London
1 – 8 July 2011
After celebrating its 10th anniversary last year Master Drawings London is returning once again to Mayfair, St. James’s and Bloomsbury from the 1 – 8 July 2011. Twentytwo leading drawings specialists from London, New York, Düsseldorf and Madrid open their doors to mount a series of co-ordinated selling exhibitions and lectures in galleries all within walking distance of each other. As ever visitors can expect to see a great range and variety of some of the finest Old Master and Modern drawings on the market by a number of the worlds most distinguished artists.

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Ralph Eugene Meatyard at Art Institute of Chicago

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks
Art Institute of Chicago
July 2 – September 25, 2011
Highly original and deeply emotional, photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard‘s use of staged scenes foreshadows the work of many contemporary artists, such as Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman, Sally Mann, and Justine Kurland. His unorthodox, surrealistic, yet eerily beautiful images are now showcased in a new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks–on view July 2 through September 25, 2011, in Allerton Gallery 1 –presents more than 50 black-and-white works by one of the most enigmatic photographers of our time.

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Julian Schnabel at Museo Correr (Venice)

Julian Schnabel: Permanently becoming and the architecture of seeing
Museo Correr
4 June – 27 November 2011
The show “Julian Schnabel. Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of seeing” is produced and organised by Arthemisia Group in collaboration with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and staged thanks to the key contribution of Maybach.

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On Horizons at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Swiss)

On Horizons – Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur
September 3 – November 13, 2011
The photographic gaze into the horizon is the 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.

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