HOUSTON, TX- Menil Director Josef Helfenstein has announced the 2011 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement: Adam Szymczyk, director and chief curator of Kunsthalle Basel. Established in 2001 in honor of Menil Founding Director …
LACMA Debuts First International Exhibition Focused on Art in India’s Fabled City of Lucknow
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow —the first major international exhibition devoted to the cosmopolitan culture of the northern Indian court of Lucknow, and…
AGO’s Toronto Now Series Continues with Laurel Woodcock Exhibition
TORONTO.- The fifth installment of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s ongoing Toronto Now series will feature an exhibition by local artist Laurel Woodcock. On view from December 4, 2010 to January 30, 2011 in the AGO’s free, street-front Young Gal…
High Museum of Art Appoints Brett Abbott as New Curator of Photography
ATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announced the appointment of Brett Abbott as the Museum’s new curator of photography. Abbott currently serves as associate curator in the depart…
High Museum of Art Appoints Brett Abbott as New Curator of Photography
ATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announced the appointment of Brett Abbott as the Museum’s new curator of photography. Abbott currently serves as associate curator in the depart…
High Museum of Art Appoints Brett Abbott as New Curator of Photography
ATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announced the appointment of Brett Abbott as the Museum’s new curator of photography. Abbott currently serves as associate curator in the depart…
Diminutive Yet Powerfully Resonant Objects by Charles LeDray at the Whitney Museum
NEW YORK, NY.-The New York-based artist Charles LeDray, known for his diminutive yet powerfully resonant objects made of fabric, clay, and human bone, is the subject of a major mid-career survey this fall at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Organize…
DeCordova Announces Co-Curators for the 2012 Biennial: Associate Curator Dina Deitsch and Abigail Ross Goodman
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Dina Deitsch and Abigail Ross Goodman, formerly co-director of the Judi Rotenberg Gallery, will co-curate the 2012 deCordova Biennial. “I am thrilled…
Special Exhibition Reconsiders John La Farge’s Contributions to American Art in Centenary Year of Artist’s Death
NEW HAVEN, CT.- In August of 1890, John La Farge (1835–1910) and his friend the renowned historian Henry Adams (1838–1918) embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific—Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Fiji, Australia, Indon…
SFMOMA Presents Major U.S. Retrospective of Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, on view from October 30, 2010, to January 30, 2011. The first large-scale retrospective of the artist’s work to be presented in the…