Archive for the ‘Museum’ Category
Kate MccGwire will create a site specific installation in NYC in April at The Museum of Arts and Design.
1208 via juxtapoz.com
“Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum” features 193 schemes for Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous rotunda.
1200 via Wallpaper*
Michelle Obama formally presented the gown by Jason Wu that she wore to the 2009 inaugural balls to the Smithsonian’s Collection.
1199 via artdaily.org
Olafur Eliasson and Anish Kapoor have been commissioned by the Israel Museum to create two new monumental installations.
1197 via Art Knowledge News
Many of us are wondering for some time now, “Oh, New Museum, when did you become so establishment?”
1195 via Hyperallergic
A recent exhibit at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum draws attention to often historical imagery of people from faraway places.
1191 via NY Times
MoMA is showcasing an exhibit entitled William Kentridge: Five Themes celebrates the work of the enormously influential South African artist
1186 via Fast Company
Linda Yablonsky poses the possibility that a biennial featuring more women than men may have a achieved gender equality.
1185 via NY Times
Marina Abramovic gave a lecture at the MOMA as a precursor to her major retrospective which will open there on March 14th.
1165 via Art Observed
The Hammer Museum presents the first museum retrospective of drawings by British artist Rachel Whiteread.
1163 via Hammer Museum
Zwelethu Mthethwa's long-awaited first comprehensive show is on view at the Hammer Museum in LA.
1158 via Loudreams
American artist Oscar Tuazon created a new, site-specific installation contaminating the exhibition-spaces of Kunsthalle Bern.
1154 via Contemporary Art Daily
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A major new exhibition at Tate Modern pays tribute to Arshile Gorky, master of abstract expressionism.
1151 via Guardian
Centre Pompidou’s forthcoming retrospective is of one of the world’s greatest living painters, Lucian Freud.
1150 via gogoparis.com
Peter Barnett, curator in charge of the Department of Medieval Art in the Cloisters at Met, gives a tour of the Langon Chapel.
1140 via thirteen.org
The Greek tycoon Dakis Joannou hits town for the unveiling of his controversial New Museum show curated by Jeff Koons.
1138 via New York Mag
NY Art Beat is a new iPhone app that is a must have for any on-the-go-art enthusiast. Listing 600 events from 1000 galleries and museums.
1135 via The Art Collectors
Marina Abramović is so stressed before the opening of her retrospective at MoMA that she had sprouted a small pimple on her nose.
1129 via Observer
"The Whitney Biennial is thoughtful, humanly scaled, and blessedly low on hype" - Jerry Saltz.
1126 via New York Mag
"This is not only the greatest of Whitney Biennials, it is the greatest show ever produced by the Whitney" - Charlie Finch.
1125 via artnet.com
Curators answer the question "What is the Whitney Biennial?” Two videos are detailing the process of choosing exhibiting artists.
1123 via Curated
You’d never know from looking at museums that figurative painting, running the gamut from realist to quasi-expressionist, is on the rise.
1099 via NY Times
Don and Mera Rubell are expanding their footprint in the nation’s capital with a contemporary art museum and hotel.
1092 via Art in America
