Old Master Drawings: Guercino, Rubens, Tintoretto open through 2 May 2011 features 29 drawings from the Old Master collections of the Lady Lever and Walker Art Galleries. Works by some of the great Italian Renaissance and Northern European artists between 1500 and [Read More]
Daily Archives: October 25, 2010
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Twentieth-century and contemporary Latin American art is international in nature, and its leading figures have achieved international stature. This sampling of Latin American art from the Museum’s collections, on view through May 1, 2011, introduces the work of several major Latin American [Read More]
Valerio Adami (Italian, born in Bologna, 1935- ) is recognized internationally as an important European artist who first came to international prominence in the 1960s with Nouvelle Figuration, the French intellectual version of Pop art. Adami’s work is steeped in political, social [Read More]
Carl Beam was a vital force in contemporary art in Canada. At the vanguard of a new and assertive First Nations art discourse, his art builds intellectual and philosophical bridges between cultures. His powerful works explore the space between Indigenous and other [Read More]
STUK arts centre presents Playground Live art festival, 4-12 November 2010. In the Playground exhibition, the installations and videos focus on performance in all its guises. Candice Breitz shows an improvised theatre performance featuring twins, Johanna Billing documented a choreographed routine performed [Read More]
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts celebrates the centennial of legendary choreographer Alwin Nikolais in the multimedia exhibition Alwin Nikolais’ Total Theater of Motion. Curated by dance history scholar Claudia Gitelman, this exhibition brings to light the career of [Read More]
The Art Institute of Chicago opens Richard Hawkins – Third Mind, on view through January 16, 2011. Since the early 1990’s, Richard Hawkins has developed an emphatically diverse art practice that resists easy classification. Offering alternate histories through the juxtaposition of decidedly [Read More]