Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša – Signature
A+A | Centro Espositivo Pubblico Sloveno
15 March – 3 April 2011
On 15th March 2011, the A+A | Centro Espositivo Pubblico Sloveno in Venice – will have the pleasure to host the joint project of the Slovenian Artists Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša, entitled Signature.
Marcel Duchamp
Moderna Museet (Malmö)
19 March 2011 – 11 September 2011
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) emphasised the importance of the concept in a work of art. He was one of the first proponents of open art, where the interpretation of the viewer or posterity contributes to the creative act and thus to the meaning of the work. Moderna Museet has one of the world’s finest collections of Marcel Duchamp’s art, and fourteen of these works are now being shown at Moderna Museet Malmö.
Add Sugar and Stir: Cookbooks and the Lives of Women
James A. Michener Art Museum
March 19 – June 26, 2011
To Bucks County artist Kirby Fredendall, a cookbook is more than a collection of recipes—it is a form of literature written by and for women. In Add Sugar and Stir: Cookbooks and the Lives of Women, on view in the James A. Michener Art Museum’s Pfundt Gallery from March 19 through June 26, Fredendall uses text and illustrations from actual cookbooks as the basis for complex and imaginative works of art.
Mindful Media: Works from the 1970s
Irish Museum of Modern Art
23 March 2011 – 12 June 2011
An exhibition of works donated to the Irish Museum of Modern Art by Dublin-born artist Les Levine, opens to the public at IMMA on Wednesday 23 March 2011. Mindful Media: Works from the 1970s comprises two portfolios of etchings and photographic works mixing text and image to reinforce the artist’s belief that social and political problems are valid concerns for art.
Philip Taaffe: Anima Mundi
Irish Museum of Modern Art
23 March 2011 – 12 June 2011
A survey exhibition of the work of the Irish-American artist Philip Taaffe, one of the most significant painters working in America today, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) on Wednesday 23 March 2011.
Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Lee Noffke
Mint Museum
2 April – 11 September 2011
The provocative humor and pioneering style of metalsmith Gary Lee Noffke will be exhibited in a major retrospective of the artist’s work at the Mint Museum Uptown this spring. Featuring significant examples of Noffke’s hollowware, flatware, and jewelry, the exhibition Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Lee Noffke (2 April – 11 September 2011) not only captures the artist’s rebellious nature, but also examines his methodology, evolution of style, and impact on the field of metal.
Battle of the Sexes
Delaware Art Museum
March 5, 2011 – May 22, 2011
The Delaware Art Museum is excited to present Battle of the Sexes, a unique participatory exhibition that tests gender preconceptions about art, on view March 5, 2011 – May 22, 2011. Organized by The Philadelphia Women’s Caucus for Art, this exhibition is part of the Museum’s Outlooks Exhibition Series, which aims to encourage community involvement in the creation and exhibition of art.
Small Press Spotlight
Cartoon Art Museum
March 26 – June 19, 2011
Beginning on March 26, 2011, the Cartoon Art Museum’s ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Tessa Brunton.
Nancy Spero
Serpentine Gallery
3 March – 2 May 2011
Artist and activist Nancy Spero (1926–2009) was a leading pioneer of feminist art. During her 50-year career, she created a vibrant visual language constructed from the histories and mythologies of past and present cultures.
Italian Art in the Guggenheim Collections
Arca, Church of San Marco, Vercelli
26 February – 5 June 2011
From 26 February to 5 June 2011, the Arca of Vercelli presents the exhibition 1900-1961. Italian Art in the Guggenheim Collections, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
Following the trilogy of exhibitions dedicated to Peggy Guggenheim which in the course of three years has brought to Vercelli 120,000 visitors—thus confirming its full recognition as a ‘Città d’Arte’—a new cooperative agreement for exhibitions between the Piedmont Region, the Comune of Vercelli, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection brings to Vercelli more than 40 works of Italian artists, represented in the collections of the Guggenheim museums in New York and Venice.
Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings
Moderna Museet
8 October 2011 – 15 January 2012
J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet and Cy Twombly are three of the greatest painters of the last 150 years. In the autumn of 2011, Moderna Museet will bring together a groundbreaking exhibition focusing on later works by the three artists. The exhibition Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings, curated by Jeremy Lewison, is organized by Moderna Museet and will tour to Germany and the UK in 2012.
Michelangelo Pistoletto: Da Uno a Molti, 1956-1974
MAXXI
4 March 2011 – 15 August 2011
MAXXI is reinforcing its international vocation through profound synergy with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the leading American museums, and is taking to America the most important exhibition devoted to Michelangelo Pistoletto, recognised in Europe as one of the greatest living artists and considered in the United States as a sensitive pioneer of contemporary artistic practises.