10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
黑料不打烊
Aug 19, 2015
Take an Object
at The Museum of Modern Art
Midtown - New York, NY, USA
Aug 22, 2015 - Feb 28, 2016
In 1964, Jasper Johns wrote himself a note in his sketchbook: "Take an object / Do something to it / Do something else to it. [Repeat.]" Since then, art historians, artists, and critics have invoked this set of instructions on countless occasions to describe the revolutionary approaches to art making that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This exhibition presents a selection of works from the Museum’s collection that all "take an object. read more...
William Christenberry: Tracing a Line
at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montgomery, AL, USA
Aug 22, 2015 - Nov 01, 2015
Organized by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, William Christenberry: Tracing a Line is the first significant exhibition to examine the importance of drawing in the artist’s overall process while illuminating varied approaches to his subjects and themes. Alabama native William Christenberry (American, born 1936) has received widespread acclaim and recognition for his photographs and sculptures that capture a place Christenberry knew well, Hale County, Alabama. read more...
A New Fine Line: Contemporary Ink Painting From China
at Center for Visual Art
Denver, CO, USA
Aug 27, 2015 - Oct 24, 2015
Considered China’s most conservative brush technique, the gongbi method of painting combines fine lines with multiple layers of both ink-shadings and colors. The exhibition, A New Fine Line explores this centuries-old technique through the works of nine contemporary Chinese artists who utilize the gongbi technique to create works that embody contemporary subject matter and themes. The gongbi technique uses highly detailed brushstrokes that delimits details very precisely and without independent or expressive variation. read more...
The Art of Tyree Guyton: A Thirty-Year Journey
at University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Aug 22, 2015 - Jan 03, 2016
The Heidelberg Project is one of the largest, best-known, and longest-running site-specific art installations in the country. Occupying more than two blocks along Heidelberg Street on Detroit’s East Side, the project has transformed its neighborhood, covering abandoned houses, the street, and the surrounding area with collections of found objects and vividly rendered paintings. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2016, the Heidelberg Project has been the life’s work of artist Tyree Guyton. read more...
Common Ground: African American Art from the Flint Institute of Arts, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and the Muskegon Museum of Art
at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Aug 22, 2015 - Nov 15, 2015
This exhibition surveys the history of African American art through 60 works in various mediums, and features some of the most important African American artists from the 19th century to present day. It is divided into five thematic areas that give a broad overview of the history of African American art, showing its diversity as well as its commonality. The themes include Gaining Access, New Self-Awareness, Political and Social Expressions, Examining Identities, and Towards Abstraction. read more...
Collecting and Sharing
at Hood Museum of Art
Hanover, NH, USA
Aug 22, 2015 - Dec 06, 2015
This exhibition features the collection of Trevor Fairbrother, an independent curator, and John T. Kirk, a scholar of early American decorative arts, who have donated important works in their collection to the museum. Emphasizing the Hood's teaching mission, this exhibition is thematically organized, and each section displays one work from the museum's collection alongside those of the donors. These themes include Histories, Wonders, Goods, Marks, Males, Geometries, and Surfaces, and the exhibition will showcase paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture alongside early American furniture and include works by Andy Warhol, Marsden Hartley, Glenn Ligon, Carl Andre, Mike Kelley, Robert Wilson, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Richard Artschwager, Tom Wesselmann, Joseph Beuys, Catherine Opie, Elizabeth Peyton, Sol LeWitt, John O'Reilly, John Singer Sargent, and many others. read more...
NS Harsha: Sprouts, reach in to reach out
at Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas Arts District - Dallas, TX, USA
Aug 21, 2015 - Feb 21, 2016
The DMA will host a site-specific mural, Sprouts, reach in to reach out, by Indian artist NS Harsha in the Museum’s first-level Concourse, marking Harsha’s first exhibition in Dallas. Harsha is inspired by Indian popular and miniature painting, which he translates to large-scale wall paintings. He received the prestigious DAAD Scholarship in 2012, and was awarded the Artes Mundi Prize in 2008. read more...
Natasha Nicholson: The Artist in Her Museum
at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Madison, WI, USA
Aug 22, 2015 - Nov 08, 2015
The work and world of Natasha Nicholson will be on view in Natasha Nicholson: The Artist in Her Museum at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, August 22 through November 8. Nicholson is known for her assemblages and involvement in the contemporary resurgence of Cabinets of Curiosities. This exhibition is a rare opportunity for visitors to view the work of an artist who, by her own admission, never leaves the role of artist, collector, and observer. read more...
Martin Grover: The Peoples Limousine
at Updown Gallery
Kent, UK
Aug 21, 2015 - Oct 18, 2015
UpDown Gallery is excited to announce our second exhibition with artist Martin Grover. After a hugely successful first show, in 2014, Grover’s unique style has made him a gallery favourite. Entitled 'The People's Limousine', Grover’s re-imagined name for the red double decker bus, where the mundane becomes the sublime. read more...
Maj Hasager: We will meet in the blind spot
at Galleri Image
Århus, Denmark
Aug 21, 2015 - Oct 25, 2015
The exhibition We will meet in the blind spot by Maj Hasager takes its point of departure from the architecture in and around the Esposizione Universale di Roma (EUR) area in Rome. In the exhibition Maj Hasager presents two films: We will meet in the blind spot and Bifurcating futures along with eight photographic prints relating to her research on the EUR area, responding to the architecture and stories from a local migrant community. The EUR was built during the fascist rule and was meant to be the site of the World Exposition in 1942, in addition to being a celebration of the 20-year jubilee for fascism in Italy. read more...