WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents the first major museum exhibition showing how questions of gender and sexual identity have dramatically shaped the creation of modern American portraiture. “Hide/Seek: Diff…
On the Anniversary of the Birth of Pablo Picasso, Museo Picasso Málaga Presents New Acquisitions
MALAGA.- MPM’s permanent collection provides visitors with an overview of eight decades of Pablo Picasso’s work, conveying the painstaking creative capacity of an artist who is essential to understanding Western art history, and thereby embod…
Ordinary Madness Mines the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Rich Holdings of Contemporary Art
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents Ordinary Madness, an exhibition that mines the museum’s rich holdings of contemporary art to suggest an unsettling observation: that the ordinary is in fact laced with the contradictory, uncanny, an…
On Conceptual Sketches, Controversial New York Islamic Center Looks Modern, Secular
NEW YORK (AP).- Conceptual sketches of the Islamic center planned two blocks from ground zero envision a futuristic-looking building wrapped in a honeycomb of abstract shapes, with a core containing far more space for secular pursuits than religious wo…
Photographs of Dolls by Craig Deane at the V&A Museum of Childhood
LONDON.- Portrait and still life photographer Craig Deane has created more than a dozen large-scale images of dolls from the V&A Museum of Childhood’s extensive collection which will go on display at the Museum from Friday 3 September. Doll Face i…
A Three-Dimensional Portrait of the Sensibility of Contemporary German Architecture
VENICE.- The German Pavilion’s theme of “desire” represents a fundamental emotional driving force of architectural activity. The focus is on the direct sensuous experience of architecture on a scale of one-to-one. Instead of representati…
A Three-Dimensional Portrait of the Sensibility of Contemporary German Architecture
VENICE.- The German Pavilion’s theme of “desire” represents a fundamental emotional driving force of architectural activity. The focus is on the direct sensuous experience of architecture on a scale of one-to-one. Instead of representati…
Pipilotti Rist To Present New Works at Fundación Joan Miró
BARCELONA.- This
late summer exhibition
submerges us in Rist’s colourful universe. The exhibition begins with
two small
video installations, Porqué te vas? (nass)(2003) and Grabstein für RW (2004),
and
then moves on to one of the artis…
Pipilotti Rist To Present New Works at Fundación Joan Miró
BARCELONA.- This
late summer exhibition
submerges us in Rist’s colourful universe. The exhibition begins with
two small
video installations, Porqué te vas? (nass)(2003) and Grabstein für RW (2004),
and
then moves on to one of the artis…
Photographs of Wildfires by Youngsuk Suh at Haines Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery presents Wildfires, a
seasonably salient exhibition of photographs by Youngsuk Suh. In his first solo
exhibition in San Francisco, Suh continues his exploration of the myths of the
American wilderness, a subjec…