In the Tower: Nam June PaikNational Gallery of Art
Mar. 13-Oct. 2, 2011
Presented in two galleries, the exhibition features 20 works, including previously unseen works on paper, a short film about the artist narrated by video scholar John Hanhardt, a new acquisition, Untitled (Red Hand) (1967), as well as closed-circuit videos such as the show's centerpiece, an installation of One Candle, Candle Projection (1988/2000), in which a flickering video-recorded image of a lit candle's flame is projected onto the gallery walls
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mar. 13-June 5, 2011
Approximately 14 paintings and two small sculptures from the years 1964-1968, in which the lyrical, proto-Postmodernist realist worked with images of Vietnam-war era violence from newspapers, magazines and on television
Curators: Franklin Sirmans, Michelle White
Tour: The show premiered at the Menil Collection, its co-organizing institution
Also on view: "Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection," Mar. 13-July 4, 2011
A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic JewelryMuseum of Art and Design
Mar. 15-Sept. 4, 2011
More than 100 jewelry works in ceramics, especially porcelain, as it is used alone or with metal, wood, or stone, by 18 "cutting-edge" artists, including Peter Hoogeboom, Evert Nijland, Ted Noten (The Netherlands), Gésine Hackenberg (Germany), Marie Pendariès (Spain), and Shu-Lin Wu (Taiwan)
Curator: Monika Brugger
Tour: The exhibition comes to New York after a European debut at the Fondation d'Entreprise Bernadaud, its organizing institution
Also on view: "Judy Chicago Tapestries: Woven by Audrey Cowan," Mar. 1-June 19, 2011
Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia DelaunayCooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Mar. 18–June 5, 2011
More than 300 items by the pioneering design modernist, from garments and textiles to oil paintings and pochoir prints, including her experimental "poem dresses" of the 1910s and her little-seen work for the Metz & Co department store in Amsterdam, in a show that is designed by architect Toshiko Mori
Curators: Susan Brown, Matilda McQuaid
Catalogue: 250 pp., $35
Funding: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Coby Foundation, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, others
Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth MeièreNational Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
Mar. 19-Nov. 27, 2011
Sketches, studies in gouache, full-scale cartoons and models representing 25 commissions by the New York City-born Art Deco muralist and master of the art of mosaic Hildreth Meière (1892-1961), whose works can be found at Radio City Music Hall, St. Bartholomew's Church in New York, the Nebraska State Capitol and the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis
Curator: Catherine Coleman Brawer
Tour: The show is organized by the Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University in Western New York
Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the SixtiesNorton Simon Museum
Mar. 25-Aug. 15, 2011
Bringing together 17 large-scaled paintings created in the 1960s in the wake of Abstract Expressionism by artists including Larry Bell, Thomas Downing, Helen Frankenthaler, Takeshi Kawashima, Kenneth Noland and Jack Youngerman
Curator: Gloria Williams Sander
Sheila Hicks: 50 YearsInstitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Mar. 25-Aug. 7, 2011
90 weavings and free-standing wrapped sculptures, plus a colossal 20-foot-high work suspended from the ceiling and cascading from the wall, by the American fiber artist who was born in 1934 and now lives in France
Curators: Joan Simon, Susan Faxon
Catalogue: Yale University Press, 416 pp., $65
Tour: The exhibition premiered at Addison Gallery of America Art, Andover, its organizing institution, and subsequently appears at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, N.C.
Funding: J. Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation, Coby Foundation, Saundra B. Lane, Poss Family Foundation, Nancy B. Tieken, others.
History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Mar. 25-July 31, 2011
70 works from four artists: ceramist Cliff Lee, furniture maker Matthias Pliessnig, glass artist Judith Schaechter and silversmith Ubaldo Vitali, in the fifth in a biennial exhibition series that focuses on living contemporary craft artists
Curators: Nicholas Bell, Ulysses Dietz, Andrew Wagner
Catalogue: Scala Publishers Ltd., $24.95
Funding: Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation Endowment
German Expressionism: The Graphic ImpulseMuseum of Modern Art
Mar. 27-July 11, 2011
A survey of 250 WWI-era German Expressionist works, mostly prints, by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Kathe Kollwitz, Vasily Kandinsky, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Nolde and others
Curator: Starr Figura
Catalogue: 288 pp., $60
Funding: Annenberg Foundation, David Teiger, others
Also on view: "Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now," Mar. 23-Aug. 14, 2011; "I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing," Mar. 23-Sept. 19, 2011; "Standard Deviations: Types and Families in Contemporary Design," Mar. 2, 2011-Jan. 30, 2012
Please continue reading here: Art worlds leading online magazine and Decorative Art online also NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Kommentare von Besucher !
