This exhibition presents thirty-five works by ten artists who share a quirky and idiosyncratic take on the Pop tradition of appropriating popular culture in the service of art. At the same time they draw on the handcrafted, low-tech aesthetic of Folk Art. [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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A portrait of Brian Friel, renowned playwright and author, was unveiled on Friday 16 July in the National Gallery of Ireland by Mary Hanafin, T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport. The portrait, by Mick O’Dea RHA, was commissioned in 2009 by [Read More]
Curated by the RCA’s David Crowley, Andrzej Klimowski, Jeff Willis along with Anna Grabowska-Konwent from the National Museum in Poznan, the Roman Cieślewicz exhibition is organised by the Polish Cultural Institute and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of POLSKA! YEAR. The [Read More]
NORTH ADAMS, MA – With seven additional visual art destinations over last year’s offerings and 11 new galleries, this year’s DownStreet Art initiative – organized by the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) – not only [Read More]
The exhibition showcases original vintage images of the greatest stars working during the golden age of the American film industry (1920-1960). Open through through September 12, 2010. They were taken by the most important photographers working to support the Hollywood studio system [Read More]
Hay Hill Gallery presents Big Scenes, the visionary and extraordinary world of award-winning photographer Marco Sanges. Open 19. Jul – 11. Sep 10 2010, Big Scenes combines photography, video and performance, bringing together larger than life characters and stories to play out [Read More]
Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), recently announced the naming of three endowed curatorships at the MFA, reflecting the scope of the Museum’s encyclopedic collections, which include works of art from all time [Read More]
Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum, has announced the appointment of Brooke Hodge, effective July 19, as the Hammer’s Director of Exhibition Management and Publications. In her new role at the Hammer, Hodge will provide management and guidance to the curatorial [Read More]
Following an extensive search that included numerous national and international candidates, Josef Helfenstein, director of The Menil Collection, has named Toby Kamps as the museum’s new curator of modern and contemporary art. Currently senior curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Mr. Kamps [Read More]
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has announced that New York based artist Mary Miss will create a series of site specific installations along the White River called FLOW (Can You See the River?). The project will reveal important and unique elements of [Read More]
A mixture of paintings, photographs, and prints juxtaposes Andy Warhol’s (1928-1987) renderings of coins and dollar signs with images of people both famous and unknown. Open July 17 through September 19, 2010 in the Harrington Gallery Art historian Trevor Fairbrother guest curates [Read More]
The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Photography at the Frontier of Physics and Art, an exhibition that brings together the work of four major photographers—Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, Berenice Abbott, and Man Ray—who have changed the popular understanding of physics [Read More]
This exhibition focuses on a very specific moment in the post- dada/surrealist take-up of toys and early childhood as themes in art. Centred on the work of certain British and American artists who came to prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s, [Read More]
The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is pleased to present This Girl Bends: Art and Feminism Since 1960, an exhibition that explores the connections between art and feminism since 1960 with over twenty artworks from the museum’s permanent collection. On Tuesday, [Read More]