NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum will present a selection of colorful, luminous lamps designed by internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry in Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry, on view from August 29 through October 31, 2010. This exhibition also …
San Jose Museum Opens First Museum Survey Devoted to Work of Leo Villareal
SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Museum of Art presents the first-ever museum survey of the work of the prominent sculptor Leo Villareal, a pioneer in the use of LEDs and computer-driven imagery. Leo Villareal, on view at SJMA from August 21, 2010, through …
Seattle Art Museum Presents Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of Quileute Wolves
SEATTLE, WA.- Organized in conjunction with the Quileute Nation – the Seattle Art Museum presents the exhibition Behind the Scenes: the Real Story of Quileute Wolves. The exhibition, comprised of approximately 25 objects of Quileute art, offers a …
Museum of Contemporary Art Presents Carrie Gundersdorf
CHICAGO, IL.- Artist Carrie Gundersdorf explores abstraction through the use of astronomical imagery. Her six large-scale featured drawings consist of bars of color against atmospheric backdrops. They express not only what is seen, but also what can be…
Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That) at Regen Projects
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Twentieth Century debates over the “politics of representation,” the autonomy of art, or art’s capacity for “critique” still linger like disgruntled spirits on the hunt for living bodies to inhabit. At first, contemporary art looks va…
Manuscript Exhibition Examines Aspects of Play in Medieval Society
BALTIMORE, MD.- We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” while on the opposite page peasant boys enjoy a rigorous game of hockey. Such deli…
New Tube Map Cover Designed by Artist Barbara Kruger
LONDON.- Barbara Kruger uses the language of publicity to draw attention to the manipulative power of advertising. Her trademark subversive tactics are played out in ‘Untitled (Tube Map)’, where the familiar imagery of the map is used to rela…
Gallery Brown shows John Lurie’s "The Invention of Animals"
Los Angeles, CA – Beginning on June 26 and
continuing for the following six weeks, Gallery Brown (based in Los Angeles)
will be exhibiting the large-scale limited edition artwork of John Lurie,
musician, director, actor and artist in “The …