MALAGA.- The Contemporary Art Center of Málaga, in collaboration with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, is presenting the first exhibition in Spain of the Swiss artist, Sylvie Fleury. It comprises a survey of her output over the last 20 years and w…
Museum of Liverpool Opening Date Announced
LIVERPOOL.- The Museum of Liverpool will launch 100 years to the very day that its iconic neighbour the Royal Liver Building opened its doors. The largest newly-built national museum in Britain for more than a century, the new Museum of Liverpool, wil…
Scottish Artist Douglas Gordon’s New Film k.364 at Gagosian on Britannia Street
LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents “k.364,” an exhibition by Douglas Gordon. Gordon is a conjurer of collective memory and perceptual surprise whose tools include the everyday commodities of popular culture: Hollywood films, found scientific …
Harlem’s Legendary Apollo Theater is Subject of Exhibition at Museum of the City of New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The Apollo Theater, one of the nation’s most enduring cultural landmarks, is the subject of a spectacular exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York . On view from February 8 through May 1, 2011, Ain’t Nothing Like the R…
Posing Beauty: African-American Images from the 1890s to the Present at Newark Museum
NEWARK, NY.- Posing Beauty: African-American Images from the 1890s to the Present, a photography exhibition that explores the ways in which African and African-American beauty has been represented in the media historically and in contemporary times, at…
Adrian Ghenie at Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents an exhibition of new works on paper by Adrian Ghenie. Staking out an area between painting, collages and recently even a three-dimensional installation (The Dada Room), Ghenie’s work draws from source material r…
Take Me to the Water: Photographs of River Baptism at International Center of Photography
NEW YORK, NY.- Religious rituals in America are not often public spectacles. A key exception is the tradition of river baptisms that flourished in the South and Midwest between 1880 and 1930. These outdoor communal rites were public displays of faith, …
Goodbye to Some of the Notable People in the Arts and Popular Culture Who Left Us in 2010
NEW YORK, NY.- On the last day of the year, we would like to say goodbye to those artists who left us this past year. Here, a roll call of some of the notable people in art and popular culture who died in 2010. Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, born Marlene W…
Japanese American National Museum Unveils Zen Garage Concept Show, Giant Robot
LOS ANGELES, CA.- As part of its continuing “Salon Pop” series, Giant Robot and the Japanese American National Museum unveil the concept exhibition, Zen Garage, developed in collaboration between the National Museum and Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot, on…
Conceptual Artist Barbara Kruger Creates a New Work for the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
FRANKFURT.-The US-American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger has created a new, publicly accessible installation for the Rotunda of the Schirn, which covers floor, ceiling, and surrounding walls with the white- and partly red-on-black captions typical o…