The Taubman Museum of Art presents Jae Ko: Paper, open through January 9, 2010. Dividing her time between Washington, D.C. and her home in Piney Point, Maryland, Jae Ko uses rolled paper soaked over time in water containing sumi ink or natural dyes to form spare, fluid-like sculptural objects. The Korean-born artist came to the […]
An exhibition showcasing works purchased through the Art Fund International scheme opens at the New Art Gallery, Walsall this Friday, 1 October. Metropolis is a show bringing together artists whose works all address the phenomenon of the modern urban environment. Most of the pieces have been acquired through Art Fund International, our £5 million scheme […]
Visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway will premiere an epic and immersive multimedia work based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper this December at Park Avenue Armory, marking the first U.S. presentation of the artist’s installation work. Peter Greenaway, Leonardo’s Last Supper December 2010 – January 2011, Photo: Luciano Romano/Change Performing Arts Through his […]
Arnold Scaasi has dressed them all—from Broadway actresses and Hollywood stars to the ladies who lunch and America’s First Ladies. Epitomizing the “lifestyles of the rich and famous,” his custom-made clothing evokes the height of elegance and craftsmanship from the late 1950s to the present. In celebration of the acclaimed fashion designer and his recent […]
MAD architects have proposed a floating museum in the southern Chinese city of Xiamen, on an island in the middle of a resevoir that runs through the centre of the city. MAD’s design concept is a floating museum, lofted up above the ground. The structure reflects the surrounding environment, but also maintains the current use […]
The Fleming Museum presents Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection, open through December 18, 2010. In 2001 Tom Golden donated his collection of works by renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to the Sonoma County Museum. Golden’s personal and professional relationship with the artists began when he met them during the 1974 public hearings for […]
After its renovation and restructuring, the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts’ Gallery of Paintings will be accessible to the public again. Surrounded by the artists’ studios and workshops on the first floor of the Academy of Fine Arts is a world-ranking collection of European painting from the 14th to the 19th centuries. A central foyer […]
The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt/Main will be exclusively exhibiting photographic works from its collection, in an exhibition open through April 25, 2011. MMK owns one of the largest collections of international contemporary photography, with a stock of over 1,500 works. Given the dimensions of the collection, it can only exhibit some aspects […]
The House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg is presents in cooperation with the Museum Folkwang the first retrospective in Germany of the British photographer Paul Graham (b. 1956) with 11 major work complexes produced since 1981. With about 145 images, the exhibition shows a representative selection of his work. Open through 9 JANUARY 2011 (House […]
The fall landscape and paintings of its trees in full glory is often regarded as uniquely American. On September 25, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, opens Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth, which includes nearly 100 paintings from major museums and private collections and examines the narrative of the American artist’s fascination with […]
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist´s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world For more than five decades Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923) has intensively experimented with the origins and optics of color. His […]
The Taubman Museum of Art presents Jane Hammond: Fallen, open through January 9, 2010. Jane Hammond’s ongoing installation work, Fallen, concerns aspects of memorialization and remembrance for those who have died in Iraq. It was first displayed in 2005 accompanied by wall text that simply read, “Each unique handmade leaf is inscribed by the artist […]
