The National Portrait Gallery in London presents Road to 2012. Aiming High, an exhibition on view 19 July – 23 Sept 2012. After three years and more than 100 photographs, the National Portrait Gallery’s largest commission, made possible by BT, includes 40 [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
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Brooklyn, NY – Most likely, without a second glance, you pass right by the local sidewalk cafe, a dilapidated truck, an empty lot, a row of brownstones. They are all everyday Brooklyn. But when seen through the eyes of local artist Ella [Read More]
Mpls Photo Center presents Cig Harvey. You Look at Me Like an Emergency, an exhibition on view through August 19th, 2012. All Photos: ©Cig Harvey YOU LOOK AT ME LIKE AN EMERGENCY is a visual autobiography exploring the photographer’s central relationships over [Read More]
The Biennale of Sydney has announced the appointment of Juliana Engberg as the Artistic Director of the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014). ‘Juliana Engberg has worked with many of the leading international artists of the last decades and has a history of [Read More]
Chrysler Museum of Art presents Many Wars Photography by Suzanne Opton an exhibition on view SEP 19, 2012. – DEC 30, 2012, portraying veterans from World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Jim Dooley Vietnam, 2009 Chromogenic print Photo [Read More]
The J. Paul Leonard Library and Sutro* Library at San Francisco State University received an Honor Award in the Rehabilitation / Renovation / Restoration category from the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) in their annual national Design-Build Award Competition. Balfour Beatty [Read More]
Dark Dark Science presents Group Show LA MiXTAPE on view through August 4th – August 28th, 2012. The lost art of the mix tape: a simple piece of plastic slid into a pocket or delivered in an envelope, each song on it [Read More]
Cantor Arts Center presents Guardians. Photographs by Andy Freeberg, an exhibition on view through January 6, 2013, presents 16 critically acclaimed portraits of art museum guards in contemporary Russia as they protect treasured paintings and sculptures in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Andy [Read More]
Fotomuseum Winterthur presents Status – 24 Contemporary Documents, an exhibition on view through 26.08.2012. Elmgreen & Dragset Untitled (Prada Marfa), 2007 C-Print, 160 x 204 cm © Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset / Courtesy Galerie Perrotin, Paris A few years after the [Read More]
Armory Center for the Arts presents Roadside Attraction, on view 08.11.12 to 11.10.12, a new temporary outdoor gallery at 733 North Fair Oaks Boulevard. Roadside Attraction Armory Center for the Arts Sited on a traffic-heavy, vehicular corridor, Roadside Attraction is a set [Read More]
BALTIC 39 presents an exhibition of work by Glasgow based artist Andrew Miller, on view through 7 OCT 2012. Andrew Miller, Curb Carpet 2011. Photo: © Courtesy the artist Andrew Miller is a Glasgow based artist who works across a variety of [Read More]
Princeton University Art Museum presents Root & Branch, an exhibition on view July 14 – Nov. 25, 2012. Lee Friedlander, American, born 1934: Lake Park, Milwaukee, 1992. Gelatin silver print. Princeton University Art Museum Museum purchase in memory of C. David Robinson, [Read More]
The Museum of London announced that its popular London Street Photography exhibition will travel to the Museum of the City of New York. The display has been timed to coincide with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. On view until 2 [Read More]
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Scandinavian Design, an exhibition on view August 26, 2012–January 27, 2013. Poul Henningsen, manufactured by Louis Poulsen & Company, PH “Artichoke” Lamp, 1958, copper, steel, and enameled metal, the MFAH, museum purchase with funds provided by [Read More]