Dallas Cowboys owners Gene and Jerry Jones, along with their family, today announced the Dallas Cowboys Art Program, an ongoing initiative to commission contemporary artists to create monumental, site-specific installations for the recently completed Cowboys Stadium. Doug Aitken, Star (2008). Neon lit [Read More]
For more than two decades, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) has created objects and drawings that explore the intersections between material culture, intellectual history, and personal and collective memory. This exhibition, Wolfe’s first solo museum show, comprises thirty works drawn from the artist’s [Read More]
Current building closes September 7, Park remains open and programs continue in community Visitors have a month to see their favorite works of art before the North Carolina Museum of Art building temporarily closes beginning Monday, September 7, for approximately seven months. [Read More]
The life and art of one of opera’s iconic figures, composer Giacomo Puccini, is the subject of a new exhibition opening September 15 at The Morgan Library & Museum. On view are approximately forty items related to Puccini’s career, including rarely seen [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art announces two major photography acquisitions: nearly 60 rare examples of nineteenth-century photography from the Suzanne Winsberg Collection and 39 photographs by Richard Avedon. The bequest of photographs from the Suzanne Winsberg Collection—comprising works that range in date [Read More]
German printmaker Gustave Baumann was known for his woodblock prints, a labor-intensive technique that requires carving a new block for each color used. Usually, his final images included five or six colors and consequently the same number of blocks. The resulting prints [Read More]
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery announced today that in addition to holding an exhibition for the selected artists of the 2009 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, they would feature work from Jamai, a student from New York’s ART START program. Agora Gallery currently supports [Read More]
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce the appointment of Laurence Sillars in the role of Chief Curator. He will take up the position on Monday 2 November and will lead the curatorial team and work with BALTIC’s Director Godfrey [Read More]
The title of the exhibition is taken from a line in William Blake’s poem Auguries of Innocence — “Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.” In these new paintings Dalwood explores a rather morbid fascination with the [Read More]
“From the Spoon to the City”: Objects by Architects from LACMA’s Collection will present a cross section of LACMA’s twentieth-century design collection, highlighting furniture and objects designed by architects. When Italian architect Ernesto Rogers famously declared that he wanted to design everything [Read More]
In 2010, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will mark its 75th year as a pioneering force in art worldwide and an unparalleled destination for the people of the San Francisco Bay Area. Through special exhibitions, events, public programs, and an [Read More]
The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art announced the first London exhibition in over 40 years by the Spanish artist Juan Genovés of 15 new paintings that will open at Marlborough Fine Art, London on October 29th. Born in Valencia in 1930, Genovés [Read More]
A group of unusual, illustrated manuscripts called the Falnama that were once used by sultans, shahs and commoners to explore the unknown will be on view Oct. 24 through Jan. 24, 2010, at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. “Falnama: The Book [Read More]
More than 300 greenstone tiles found inside the Moon Pyramid originated a human sculpture that gives testimony of the esthetic cannons of the ancient Teotihuacan culture. The effigy is one of the emblematic pieces of the exhibition “Teotihuacan. Ciudad de los Dioses” [Read More]