Modern Art CalendarGuide to Modern & Contemporary Art Exhibits Around the World |
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Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Culture January 25 - April 19, 2009 Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Art of Two Germanys is the first special exhibition in LACMA’s new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM). The exhibit is divided into four chronological sections, and includes about 300 paintings, sculptures, photographs, multiples, videos, installations, and books, by 120 artists. Features include large-scale installations and recreations of major works by Hans Haacke, Heinz Mack, Sigmar Polke, Raffael Rheinsberg, Gerhard Richter, and Dieter Roth, as well as videos and performance-based works.
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Exhibits by Location United States Chicago, Il Miami, FL London, England Paris, France *Upcoming Exhibit
See Jerry Bengis' extensive collection of Salvador Dali prints.  Martin Margulies: Over the years I have collected paintings, sculpture, and occasionally prints come my way to evaluate. Not knowledgeable in this field there's no one I respect more than Jerry Bengis to give me an accurate, honest evaluation. Read more on DaliArtBlog |
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March 7 - May 19, 2009 Coral Springs Museum of Art |
A Celebration!! features the art of Romero Britto, 2009 Artist in Residence at the Coral Springs Museum of Art. Romero Britto is a Brazilian Pop artist who combines cheerful images, lively colors and facets of Pop art, graffiti and Cubism. Now living in Miami, Britto is one of the most famous living Pop artists. He paints, serigraphs and sculpts and has made portraits of many famous people including Dustin Hoffman, Gloria Estefan and Andre Agassi. Britto's whimsical style is constantly in demand by companies worldwide for advertising, murals and other public art. His work is widely collected.
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Thru March 21, 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami at Goldman Warehouse |
Starting with the novel, The Possibility of an Island (2005) by French author Michel Houellebecq, "the exhibition poses existential questions about a never arriving future, addressing anxieties about aging, death, irrelevancy, culture and destruction. Covering themes from habitation and technology to fear and hope, The Possibility of an Island illustrates our present time through extraordinary treatments of the past, present and future." The exhibition is curated by MOCA Assistant Curator Ruba Katrib.
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Matisse and Beyond: Ongoing Exhibition San Francisco Museum of |
SFMOMA's modern and contemporary art holdings include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some of the 20th and 21st centuries' most celebrated artists. The selection currently on view features works by Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Joan Mitchell, Roy Lichtenstein, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Diego Rivera, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, among other artists.
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March 25–May 10 , 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami |
Abstract Cinema explores the influence of technological innovations from the early 1930s to the present on artists' abstract moving images. New technologies have given rise to "new ways to envision the world and communicate ideas". This exhibit will feature a "wide range of artists who have broken boundaries by using new media in creative ways". Curated by MOCA Executive Director Bonnie Clearwater in association with MOCA Exhibition Coordinator Kevin Arrow. |
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Through March 1, 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art |
This exhibit of Calder’s mobiles, stabiles, drawings, and paintings demonstrate the artist’s development during his 50-year career. Calder combined colorful shapes taken from nature with an interest in mechanics to create whimsical mobiles that move with air currents. Although Calder's began his career as in drawing and painting, he is best known for his stabiles, mobiles, and large-scale sculptures.
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February 15 - March 15, 2009 Yamet Arts, Inc. |
Yamet Arts Inc. will be hosting a major exhibition of some of the Hudson Valley's finest artists. A curatorial panel has selected more than 30 artists from Mt. Vernon to Hudson that will be featured alongside Picasso, Lichtenstein and other iconic artists from Yamet's impressive collection. Connecting the work of the masters with up and coming talent, Yamet and his sponsors hope to highlight the diversity of talent and artistry that continue to thrive in New York's Hudson Valley. A 20% commission of sales will be donated to the Hudson Valley Museum for Contemporary Art. Opening Reception
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Through March 16, 2009 Centre Pompidou |
After two thematic exhibitions, the Centre Pompidou Museum will be showing its masterpieces as part of two new chronological presentations, occupying all of the 4th and 5th floors. The modern collections with over 1,300 works to highlight the artists and the works of the first half of the 20th century, and to present the museum's latest acquisitions in the field, followed by the contemporary collections.
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April 25, 2008 - March 30, 2009 The Museum of Modern Art |
The Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) Ateliers laboratories produced furnishings and pre-fab buildings through the collaborative efforts of a skilled creative team. "The installation focuses on the evolution of the "Standard" Chair and includes other examples of furniture and buildings that demonstrate Prouvé's approach to construction and his sensitive handling of materials—particularly his inventive applications of sheet metal."
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Ongoing Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
Due to the influence of Hilla Rebay, the Guggenheim's first director, who encouraged Solomon R. Guggenheim to begin collecting Kandinsky’s work in 1929, Vasily Kandinsky has been closely linked to the Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim met the artist for the first time at the Dessau Bauhaus in July 1930. This began a period of acquisition of paintings and watercolors by Kandinsky. This installation of the Kandinsky Gallery exhibits Kandinsky's early grasp of the graphic arts, as well as his translation of printmaking techniques to painting.
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