State of the Art - Exhibition openings Aug. 2-9
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Aug 02, 2010
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The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today (MoMA)
Exhibition presents a critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how the one medium has become implicated in the understanding of the other, through a selection of nearly three hundred outstanding pictures by more than one hundred artists. More...
Museum as Hub: The Bidoun Library Project (New Musuem)
The Bidoun Library presents an idiosyncratic collection of books, exhibition catalogues, magazines, journals, and ephemera at large. The Library made its debut in November 2009 at Abu Dhabi Art, and has since traveled to Beirut and Dubai, with future versions planned for Cairo and London. More...
Experimental Women in Flux (MoMA)
In the spirit of MoMA's publication of Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art in June 2010, the Museum Library features experimental works by women that form part of the newly acquired Silverman Fluxus Collection Reference Library. More...
Joseph Beuys and David Kastner: Distraction (Ico Gallery)
Joseph Beuys' unconventional style challenged prevailing idea with his use of odd materials, his performances and installations. Kastner's body of work results from the study of light, color, and perception, and the artist has attempted to capture that ephemeral moment when color expresses itself as a thing of mystery, something ineffable. More...
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Jake and Dinos Chapman: Children's Commission (Whitechapel)
Jake and Dinos Chapman transform the galleries into a space for children and families to delight in the macabre. Drawing on their forthcoming book Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights published by Fuel, the commission includes original etchings of modern-day fairy tales told in poetry and illustrated with intricate, fantastical drawings. More...
Jess Flood-Paddock: Gangsta's Paradise (The Hayward)
In her first solo exhibition at a major institution, the British artist Jess Flood-Paddock presents a sculptural scenario featuring a lobster, a sprinter's autobiography, an invitation to dinner, some possible cannibals, some giant rabbits, and the end of the world. More...
Standing Room Only (Flowers)
In many of the works, both symbolism and subjectivity are condensed into shadow. A statuesque woman, lips and dress stained the colour of wine, cloth clinging to her confident figure, spilling into a sanguine pool beneath her, is haunted by a shadow that snakes genie-like from her body; a plume of vapour threatening to engulf her. More...
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Washington DC: Munch - Prints (National Gallery of Art)
In this fascinating exhibition, the National Gallery of Art brings together nearly 60 of Munch's most important prints to show how his persistent experimentation and virtuosic handling of woodcut, lithography, and intaglio endowed different impressions of his primary motifs with new meanings. More...
Atlanta: Dali: The Late Work (High Museum)
The first major exhibition to reevaluate the last half of Salvador Dal铆's career will be presented exclusively at the High Museum this August. In the late 1930s Dali underwent a radical change, in which he embraced Catholicism, developed the concept of nuclear mysticism and, in effect, reinvented himself as an artist. More...
Philadelphia: Porcelain for the Emperor: Chinese Ceramics of the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722) - Philadelphia Museum of Art
The works on view take a dazzling array of forms: cylindrical, square, hexagonal, gourd-shaped, trumpet-mouthed. Some have lids with fanciful knobs in the shape of lions. The pieces are decorated with intricate pictorial motifs inspired by nature, literature, and mythology in a brilliant palette of glazes and enamel colors. More...
Boston: Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 (Museum of Fine Arts)
Richard Avedon was one of the greatest image-makers of the twentieth century. He revolutionized fashion photography with his imaginative portrayals of the "good life," showing beautiful women, wearing extraordinary clothes, in glamorous settings. More...
North Adams: Leonard Nimoy: Secret Selves (MASS MoCA)
Inspired by Aristophanes' theory that humans were once double-sided creatures with two heads and multiple limbs before Zeus cleaved man in two and left him forever struggling to be whole again, Nimoy's photographs reveal his subjects' other half More...
San Francisco: Prints by Paul Klee (1946) - SFMomA
This exhibition re-creates a 1946 show of prints by the Swiss-born modernist held at the museum. At that time, Klee's work was little known outside of Europe; the exhibition was perceived as highly original, and the works seem no less fresh or innovative more than six decades later. More...
Los Angeles: Supernatural (Jancar Gallery)
Works by John Baldessari - Andrea Bowers - Doug Harvey - Ilene Segalove - David Askevold - Micol Hebron - Dawn Kasper - Marcus Civin - Katia Santibanez and others More...
Seattle: Contemporary Works from the Monsen Collection (Henry Art Gallery)
Selections will focus on the current trend toward abstraction in photography, contrasting that with one of the medium's constants - the figure. Featured artists include Walead Beshty, Weng Fen, Eileen Quinlan, Torbj酶rn R酶dland, and others. More...
Santa Fe: Wayne Thiebaud (Gerald Peters Gallery)
Viewed from dramatic, plunging perspectives enhanced by the striking color palette and visible effects of light that Thiebaud is known for, mountain paintings from the 60s to 2010 will be on view. More...
Houston: Form Follows Function: Celebrating 10 Years of the American Institute of Architects Design Collection at the MFAH (Museum of Fine Arts)
The presentation showcases works by renowned international architects such as Gae Aulenti, Peter Behrens, Marcel Breuer, Frank Gehry, Josef Hoffmann, Gerrit Rietveld, Aldo Rossi, Eliel Saarinen, and Louis Sullivan. More...
Minneapolis: Robert Irwin (Walker Art Center)
Throughout his long career, Robert Irwin has pondered whether we ever have an absolutely pure or direct moment in front of a work of art. This installation, last on view 20 years ago, represents his effort to foster such an experience. More...
Austria / Bregenz: Antony Gormley: Horizon Field (Kunsthaus Bregenz)
The Kunsthaus Bregenz and the British artist Antony Gormley (born in 1950) are realizing a unique project in the mountains of Vorarlberg. Horizon Field will be the first art project of its kind erected in the mountains and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date More...
Copenhagen: Then & Now (Galleri Faurschou)
Works by Erik A. Frandsen, Michael Kvium, Christian Lemmerz & Nina Sten-Knudsen More...
Athens: Sonic Facade Peristyle (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
Explore Seven videos that focus on the musical aspect of Fluxus and on the influence of John Cage and Nam June Paik. More...
Tokyo: Tabaimo: TE TE TE (Gallery Koyanagi)
The exhibition is to celebrate publication of the artist's book "akunin" and the artist's participation in the 54th Venice Biennale as the representing artist for the Japanese Pavilion. More...
Melbourne: Gestures & Procedures (Australian Center for Contemporary Art)
Some of the most seminal works in early video, studio and performance practice will be shown, including key 1970s projects by pioneer conceptual artists such as Bruce Nauman, John Baldessari and Vito Acconci, More...
Melbourne: John Davis: Presence (Ian Potter Centre: NGV)
At the time of his death in 1999, John Davis had established a critically acclaimed reputation as an influential sculptor and installation artist whose practice synthesised material diversity with an idiosyncratic concept of landscape and ecology. Exhibition will chart Davis's development as an artist, with particular focus on his interest in found and fragile organic materials, and the powerful evocation of the landscape that is at the core of his work. More...
Hong Kong: Kijuro Yahagi: Hidden Japan - Black-and-White Photographs (University Museum and Art Gallery)
Exhibition features 85 black-and-white photographs taken by the renowned Japanese architect and designer Kijuro Yahagi (b. 1952) during the 1990s when the artist travelled twenty thousand kilometres across Japan. More...
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