I Look, I Listen: Works on Paper by Marlene Miller
Michener Art Museum
July 14 – October 14, 2012
I Look, I Listen: Works on Paper by Marlene Miller is on view in the Pfundt Gallery, James A. Michener Art Museum, July 14 through October 14, 2012. This exhibit is sponsored by Mary Lou and Andrew Abruzzese, The Pineville Tavern.
Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial
Mint Museum
6/30/12 – 9/30/12
Thornton Dial is a keen observer of the human spectacle and its narratives of corruption and moral strength, folly and triumph. As an artist, he has spent the last two decades exploring the truth of American history and culture in all its complexities and contradictions. This exhibition presents a major survey of Dial’s work, an epic gathering of over fifty large-scale paintings, sculptures and wall assemblages that address the most compelling issues of our time.
Picasso Black and White
Guggenheim Museum
October 5, 2012–January 23, 2013
Surveying the Spanish master’s oeuvre from 1904 to 1971, Picasso Black and White examines the artist’s lifelong exploration of a black-and-white palette through some 110 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Picasso’s deceptively simple use of isolated black, white, and gray hues belies the extraordinary complexity and power of these expressive works, which purge color in order to highlight their formal structure.
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
June 29 – October 3, 2012
From June 29 to October 3, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum will present Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, an extensive midcareer survey and the first major exhibition of the artist’s work organized by a North American institution. It is the most comprehensive museum exhibition of the artist’s oeuvre to date.
Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
June 8–September 12, 2012
From June 8 to September 12, 2012, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960. Comprising approximately 100 works by nearly 70 artists, the exhibition explores international trends in abstraction in the decade before the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright–designed building opened in October 1959, when vanguard artists working in the United States and Europe pioneered such influential art forms as Abstract Expressionism, Cobra, and Art Informel.
The Art Institute of Chicago has recently commissioned Katharina Fritsch for a site-specific, sculptural installation. The German artist’s curious cast of characters–oversized versions of a hand, fern fronds, an apple, an egg, a human skull, St. Michael, and a Madonna, among others–will be on display on the Bluhm Family Terrace atop the museum’s Modern Wing through October 28, 2012. These nine brightly colored sculptures, divided up into three distinct groups of works (1. Stilleben/1st Still Life, 3. Stilleben/3rd Still Life, and Apfel/Apple) , were produced between 2009 and 2012. Fritsch’s fastidiously crafted objects–rendered in bronze, copper, plastic, and epoxy–offer visitors an alternative, perhaps unsettling, view of these often iconic forms.
Dwayne Wilcox: Above the Fruited Plains
Missoula Art Museum
June 1 – October 21, 2012
Missoula Art Museum is delighted to host Dwayne Wilcox: Above the Fruited Plains. Wilcox’s approach is quite simple; he uses graphite and colored pencils to alter old ledger paper. Ledger Art has a rich history with the Plains people, but like many contemporary artists, Wilcox uses the ledger paper as a platform for contemporary expression.
The Art Institute of Chicago has recently added the complete set of Harlem, U.S.A.–an iconic series of 25 images by acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953)–to its permanent collection.
Avengers Assemble!
Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition
May 12 – October 21, 2012
The Cartoon Art Museum celebrates five decades of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes with Avengers Assemble!, an exhibition featuring some of the most iconic characters in comic book history, including Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man, The Wasp, Hawkeye, Black Widow and The Incredible Hulk.
Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past
Asian Art Museum
May 18–September 2, 2012
This May, the Asian Art Museum debuts Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, an ambitious exhibition exploring the complex, diverse, cross-cultural perspectives of Asian cosmology and spirituality through a compelling interplay of 140 artworks from the past and present.
Parcours
Art Institute of Chicago
April 21 – September 9, 2012
Parcours –a French word for “route” or “path”–in the United States designates an educational or exercise trail, a loop marked by sights or gymnastics, always with explanatory texts and often with diagrammatic drawings as well. It is, one could say, an outdoor exhibition circuit for the improvement of one’s mind and body. The Art Institute of Chicago’s own Parcours–a sort of model exhibition and conceptual art project–presents a similarly conceived itinerary indoors and online.
Lucian Freud Portraits
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
July 1-October 28, 2012
One of the most ambitious exhibitions of the paintings and drawings by Lucian Freud ever organized will open at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, July 1, 2012. With over 100 paintings and works on paper loaned from museums and private collections throughout the world, Lucian Freud Portraits is organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in close partnership with the late Lucian Freud.