A Ballad of Love and Death: Pre-Raphaelite Photography in Great Britain, 1848-1875
Musée d’Orsay
8 March – 29 May 2011
In the second half of the 19th century, during the heyday of Victorian England, the aesthetic principles of the Pre-Raphaelite painters were frequently echoed by the photographers of the time who aspired to be recognised as artists in their own right.
Intervals: Futurefarmers
Guggenheim Museum
May 4–14, 2011
From May 4 to May 14, 2011, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Intervals: Futurefarmers, the fourth installment of its contemporary art series designed to reflect the spirit of today’s innovative practices. For its Intervals project, the San Francisco–based art collective Futurefarmers is creating a site-specific installation on the Rotunda floor of the museum and organizing intimate participatory programs for the public in various spaces around the city of New York.
Jutta Koether – The Thirst Moderna Museet Stockholm 5 March, 2011 – 24 April, 2011 Jutta Koether is a painter, performance artist, musician, critic and theoretician. Her works incorporate distinct elements of punk and underground culture. The Thirst at Moderna Museet is Jutta Koether’s most extensive museum exhibition, and her first in Scandinavia so far. […]
James Naismith thumbtacked the freshly typed 13 rules for his new game, Basket Ball, to a gymnasium bulletin board in December 1891. Now nearly 120 years later, the public will have its first chance to see the landmark document that launched a cultural legacy in a display at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. James Naismith’s Original Rules of Basket Ball opens to the public Saturday, March 5, in Kirkwood Hall at the Museum.
Video Artists Holly Andres, Grace Carter, and Gerd Aurell
Missoula Art Museum
March 16 – May 29, 2011
Missoula Art Museum screens two video artworks in the Goldberg Library, to reacquaint visitors with ideas about video art. The videos presented, Holly Andres and Grace Carter’s Dandelion, and Gerd Aurell’s Montana is a Harsh Mistress, each tells a painful story but use different means of expression.
Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz and Yona Friedman
Kunsthaus Bregenz
April 16 to July 3, 2011
For the KUB Arena’s second project in 2011 the architects Yona Friedman (Paris) and Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz who lives in Bregenz are invited to make a joint presentation of their works—two architects who with their visionary ideas in the 1960s not only developed approaches to problems of urban planning, but also created the basis for a new philosophy in architecture.
That’s the way we do it.
The Techniques and Aesthetic of Appropriation.
From Ei Arakawa to Andy Warhol
Kunsthaus Bregenz
April 16 to July 3, 2011
This ambitious group exhibition investigates how contemporary artists have appropriated existing repertories of visual images and transformed them through specially developed techniques. Earlier examples of this procedure, for instance in the work of John Baldessari, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Prince, Martha Rosler, and Andy Warhol, form the cornerstones of the show.
Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a Master Class from Goya
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
May 20 – August 14, 2011
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition called Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a Master Class from Goya. This exhibition will feature the work of six contemporary artists – Folkert de Jong, Hiraki Sawa, Allison Schulnik, Dana Schutz, Javier Tellez, and Erika Wanenmacher – paired with works by Spanish master Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. Organized by CAM and curated by Santa Fe‐based independent curator Laura Steward, the exhibition will run from May 20 through August 14, 2011, and be accompanied by a CAM‐produced publication and series of diverse public programs.
Heroines
Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza
8 March to 5 June 2011
This March, the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting Heroines, a comprehensive survey of the depiction of women as the protagonists of key roles and as manifestations of the gender identity crisis in western art. The exhibition focuses on strong women: active, independent, defiant, inspired, creative, dominating and triumphant.
Moderna Museet’s focus on photography in 2011 has been met with great enthusiasm even before it is in full swing. Several impressive private donations of works by key artists working in the photographic medium have further enhanced the museum’s collection. Since the project Another Story (which will be launched in three phases over the year) highlights the Moderna Museet’s collection; the two directors of Moderna Museet, Daniel Birnbaum and Ann-Sofi Noring say “this generous donation is the best thing that could happen to the museum and its visitors”. Many of the new works can already be seen when the new presentation of the collection opens on February 24.
Director Gary Vikan of the Walters Art Museum announced today that Dr. Regine Schulz, director of international curatorial affairs and curator of ancient art at the Walters since 2000, has been named executive director of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum (RPM) in Hildesheim, Germany. Schulz, who will assume her duties in the fall, will succeed Dr. Katja Lembke, who was recently named director of the Landesmuseum of Lower Saxony in Hannover.
Teresita Fernández
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
April 17-June 19, 2011
Sculptor Teresita Fernández creates work in response to nature. Reminiscent of clouds, rainstorms, waterfalls, and stars in the night sky, Fernández’s mercurial forms shimmer, float, and undulate before our eyes.