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Madeline in New York: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans
at New York Historical Society
Upper West Side - New York, NY, USA
Jul 04, 14 - Oct 19, 14

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Madeline鈥檚 publication, the New-York Historical Society will honor the beloved schoolgirl and her creator Ludwig Bemelmans with an exhibition of more than 90 original artworks. In addition to drawings from all six Madeline books, the exhibition will also feature Bemelmans' drawings of the old Ritz Hotel in New York, murals from a rediscovered Paris bistro, panels from the Onassis yacht, and a cache of fabrics based on an early picture book. read more...

Positivilly Marvillainous
at Eric Firestone Gallery
East Hampton, NY, USA
Jul 05, 14 - Jul 27, 14

Expanding on tradition doesn鈥檛 necessarily demand the push towards perfection or a high polish. Rather, it can entail building on established conventions in a particular artist鈥檚 unique voice. Today, contemporary artists鈥攌nowingly or unknowingly鈥攔eference George Herriman鈥檚 historically overlooked, unpretentious and universally accessible fantasy, Krazy Kat a comic strip that ran in American newspapers from 1913 until 1944. The artists in Positivilly Marvillainous embrace tensions, arising from Herriman鈥檚 formal qualities in character portrayal, including those between line and shade, humor and drama, human and animal, collage and d茅collage, marvelous and villainous. read more...

Personal Histories
at Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA, USA
Jul 05, 14 - May 03, 15

Historical narratives tend to highlight key events in a nation鈥檚 history. The fate of a country鈥檚 leaders, wars won or lost, and other transformative national events are enshrined as 鈥渙fficial鈥� history, while the struggles and successes of minorities and less influential groups often remain forgotten or in the margins. The artists in this installation鈥搃ncluding Laylah Ali, William Cordova, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Kara Walker鈥揷hart alternative narratives. read more...

Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait
at University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Jul 05, 14 - Oct 19, 14

Susan Sontag claimed that photographs 鈥渙we their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.鈥� Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists. read more...

PIECESes and BOXESes
at The Clay Studio
Old City - Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jul 05, 14 - Aug 03, 14

PIECESes and BOXESes is a traveling exhibition made by the ten international artists of Project Network at Guldagergaard, the International Ceramic Research Center. These small works made during our residency in Denmark are being exhibited ten times in eight different countries in exhibitions organized by every Networker in their home city. Project Network is unique amongst artist residencies as the creation of new artistic works is not the only the focus, there is a strong emphasis as well on networking and professional practice. read more...

William Cobbing: Transactions of the Duddo Field Club
at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Middlesbrough, UK
Jul 04, 14 - Oct 30, 14

As Lipman Artist in Residence at Newcastle University, William Cobbing has been developing new works featuring the imprint of letterpress blocks into malleable clay surfaces. Words appear and are then distorted or erased through the act of continually reworking the surface. Language becomes a tactile experience. read more...

Ed Atkins, Bruce Nauman
at Kunsthalle Mainz
Mainz, Germany
Jul 04, 14 - Oct 26, 14

Bruce Nauman (b. 1941 in Fort Wayne, USA) is one of themost prominent contemporary artists. He has exhibited many times at the Biennale in Venice and at the documenta in Kassel. A recently published monograph calls him the "True Artist", borrowing from the title of a 1967 work. Nauman works with videos, neon writing, corridor spaces and suspended sculptures. read more...

Various Artists: Personal Codes of Conduct
at Torch Gallery
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jul 05, 14 - Aug 09, 14

Personal Codes of Conduct is an exhibition about the unpaved back roads connected to the digital highway. Not only do people increasingly allow for their personal lives to be digitized, these personal lives are also steadily infiltrating the digital world. What started out as a domain for code, abstraction and raw functionality has become a biotope of selfies, games and social networks. read more...

Gunilla Klingberg: A Sign in Space
at Malm枚 Konsthall
Malm枚, Sweden
Jul 05, 14 - Oct 19, 14

In her exhibition at Malm枚 Konsthall Gunilla Klingberg unites the cosmic with the everyday, the well known with the mystical. She combines visually strong works 鈥� for which she has already received international attention 鈥� with a new transparent work created for the gallery鈥檚 long row of windows facing Magistrate Park. She both challenges and exploits the gallery鈥檚 functional spaces. read more...

Tom Moore: Life Preserver
at Helen Gory Galerie
Prahran, Australia
Jul 05, 14 - Jul 26, 14

Tom Moore creates fantastical hybrid characters, each hand-blown in glass, which he places in enchanting mixed-media landscapes. He offers up an alternative world where the mundane becomes extraordinary and less is, in fact, less. Life Preserver鈥� is inspired by historical cabinets of curiosity, which were the precursor to museums. Reflecting the wonder and excitement of an age of scientific exploration, biological oddities (sometimes faked) were highly prized. read more...