The Columbia Museum of Art celebrates its 60th anniversary year by hosting a major exhibition of art by contemporary African-American artists. The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists and its accompanying catalog chronicle the accomplishments and struggles of African-American artists in the latter half of the 20th century with approximately 72 works by a number of preeminent modern artists such as Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar. The ... Read More

With “Beyond the Chains of Illusion”, Berlin Art Projects presents the first-ever European solo exhibition of work by American painter Megan Olson. We look forward to welcoming you at the opening on Friday, January 8, 2010 from 7 to 9 pm! The artist will be in attendance. On exhibition through February 2010. Megan Olson is best known for her sweeping, graceful abstract paintings, the unusual power of which emerges from the use of unusual, thin color layers of organic, complexly ... Read More

The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened to the public on Monday, December 28 (the Monday between Christmas and New Year’s Day), as part of the Museum’s popular “Holiday Mondays” program. The Museum will open the doors of its main building this winter and spring on three additional major Monday holidays: January 18 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), February 15 (Presidents’ Day), and May 31 (Memorial Day). “The upcoming Met Holiday Monday provides the public ... Read More

Pixelville is the collaborative project of the sculptor Nivi Alroy and new media artist Shirley Shor. As Israeli women close in age, Alroy and Shor share many experiences and observations, but discovered their common aesthetic and social purpose only recently, once both had relocated to New York. On view 9 January through 21 February, 2010. Pixelville – Nivi Alroy and Shirley Shor The title, Pixelville, derives in part from the responsivity of the concept to the Dumbo Arts Center ... Read More

The Baldwin Gallery is pleased to present their 5th show of new work by acclaimed contemporary artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. Enrique Martínez Celaya, whose works consists of paintings, sculpture, photography, poetry, and prose, is showing new paintings at the gallery in a show entitled “The Palace”. Enrique Martínez Celaya, “The Echo” Martínez Celaya’s paintings directly engage with personal life experience and delve into his background in literature, philosophy, ... Read More

Join artist Kenn Kotara on a guided tour of the exciting exhibition Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space on Friday, January 15, 2010 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Art Breaks are free with Museum Membership or admission. Asheville-based artist Kenn Kotara, known for his kinetic installations, drawings and paintings that share interesting connections to works on view, takes us on a personalized, guided tour of the exciting exhibition Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space on the special January 15th Art ... Read More

A new exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art contains the elements of an art history whodunit—a carefully crafted forgery, a persistent art scholar and a painting thought to be lost for more than 100 years—while taking the viewer behind the scenes of museum life. The exhibition, Identity Theft: How a Cropsey Became a Gifford, is on view through March 27, 2010. Identity Theft centers around one of the Mint’s most important Hudson River School paintings, Indian Summer in the White ... Read More

Two contemporary works, a painting by Fred Tomaselli and a photograph by William Wiley, have been added to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection. The Tomaselli painting, “Woodpecker,” is a 2008 work in acrylic, gouache, photo collage, and resin on wood panel measuring 6 by 6 feet. “’Woodpecker’ belongs to a series of magnificent birds that Tomaselli painted as surrogates for humans,” says John Ravenal, VMFA’s Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and ... Read More

A traveling exhibition opened at the New York State Museum showcasing the works of a legendary group of photographers who documented the lives and struggles of Americans enduring the Great Depression. This Great Nation Will Endure, on view through March 14, 2010, features more than 150 images of America taken between 1935 and 1942 by the legendary photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration (FSA). This remains the largest documentary photography project ever undertaken. The ... Read More

The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, presents two exhibitions devoted to Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966).† “Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print,” the first traveling† exhibition of Parrish’s color lithographic prints (which were made from his original paintings) is on view October 31, 2009 through January 10, 2010. Included are reproductions of commissions for book illustrations, magazine covers, and advertisements. The subject of this ... Read More

A major exhibition bringing together early and recent work by some of the most significant British artists of our time opens this March in the vast subterranean gallery of Ambika P3 in London. Curated by the hugely influential teacher Peter Kardia, From Floor to Sky runs from 5 March until 4 April 2010. Peter Kardia is widely recognised for his work as a radical and pioneering teacher at both Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art during the 60s and 70s. All 28 artists in this ... Read More

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Arizona artist, Steven Glatt, in Enigmatic Perspectives. The exhibition is scheduled to run from January 08, 2010 through January 29, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, January 14, 2010). The large-scale paintings by Steven Glatt open up channels of meditative repose in his audience. There is an aesthetic correlation to rock in many of Glatt’s works, with some images pouring down the canvas like fiery lava while others take the appearance of the ... Read More

Laurent Delaye presents Waseem Ahmed’s first solo exhibition in the UK. This is the second of a series of exhibitions that show a wide spectrum of contemporary artists from Pakistan. A graduate of the National College of Arts in Lahore, Ahmed (born 1976) is well known for his witty miniature paintings. “It is perhaps a curious fact that the very tradition of miniature painting, particularly the Mughal style which is promoted as Pakistan’s cultural heritage, has become the ... Read More

Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents “Concrete Dreams”, a Foam_3h exhibition by Dieuwertje Komen and Elian Somers in which the photographers offer their vision of the urban landscape. The pictures are exhibited in a variety of ways: Somers presents her work in an installation using light boxes and brief texts, while Komen combines her photos with a text essay written by architect Martino Tattara. Open through 20 January 2010. Elian Somers, “Detroit”. ©Elian ... Read More

The Fenimore Art Museum has announced a new traveling exhibition entitled “The Thaw Collection: Masterpieces of American Indian Art.” This major exhibition is currently scheduled to travel to three cities, bringing to light rarely seen treasures from the extensive holdings of The Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Collection of American Indian Art. The collection is widely recognized as one of the most important assemblages of this type in the world. The New York Times has described ... Read More