Amon Carter Museum of American Art Announces New Interpretation Manager

FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announced that Jenna Madison has joined its nationally recognized Education Department in the newly created position of Interpretation Manager. Over the last decade, the Amon Carter has developed programs to make its collection relevant to the museum’s diverse audiences. Interpretive resources such as audio tours and family guides have been widely used by guests of all ages, and Madison will continue to produce innovative methods that enhance how visitors connect with art. [...]

Tatsuo Miyajima: Three Time Train / Counter Voice on the Wall Lokremise at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen

ST. GALLEN.- Time and space are recurring themes in the work of the Japanese artist, Tatsuo Miyajima. The basis for the art of Tatsuo Miyajima (born 1957 in Tokyo, lives in Ibaraki) are illuminated LED displays in color. In various tempos, these displays count relentlessly from 1 to 9, only to start again from the beginning. The electronic look of the LED digits is, however, less the expression of a positivist technological understanding and more a symbol of ongoing life: an [...]

Jill Dawsey Named Associate Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

SAN DIEGO, CA.- Dr. Hugh M. Davies, The David C. Copley Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, announced that Jill Dawsey has been appointed the new Associate Curator. Dawsey has held curatorial posts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and, most recently, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. She began work at MCASD Dec. 5. “Jill Dawsey has the eye and intellect to identify today’s most compelling artists and contextualize them within the history [...]

SFMOMA announces new capital campaign goal and unveils details of design and expanded building program

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- With 79 percent of the capital campaign goal raised two years ahead of the groundbreaking for the expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the museum’s Board of Trustees has approved visitor- and city-friendly enhancements to the original design program and, in turn, has raised the capital campaign goal to $555 million from $480 million, an increase of 15 percent. These additional funds will enable the museum to increase the number and types of spaces dedicated to [...]

SFMOMA presents landmark reconsideration of Francesca Woodman’s brief career

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Francesca Woodman, the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Woodman’s brief but extraordinary career, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 5, 2011, through February 20, 2012. In less than a decade, before Woodman committed suicide in 1981 at age 22, she produced a potent body of photographs exploring the human body in architectural space and the complex problem of representing the self. Haunting and intimate, direct and visceral, her work reveals the unusually coherent vision of an [...]

Ellsworth Kelly shines in new Boston Museum of Fine Arts Contemporary Art wing

BOSTON, MA (REUTERS).- Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts opens a large new contemporary art wing this weekend in what curators say reflects a more forward-looking tilt to the city’s arts scene. Anchoring the launch is the temporary exhibit, “Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture,” surveying four decades of works by the famous American minimalist painter and sculptor. The Linde Family Wing of Contemporary Art, which includes more than 21,000 square feet of gallery space, is housed in the MFA’s 1981 I.M. Pei expansion. More [...]

Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Announces Final List of Participants

MOSCOW.- The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia’s most prestigious contemporary art event, has finalized its selection of participants, now totalling 64 artists and 16 art groups from 33 countries. The title for the Biennale, “Rewriting Worlds”, proclaims that art is a sphere where new things are unceasingly generated, and contemporary artists rewrite the world as it exists around them by conveying new ideas and viewpoints in their artistic work. Peter Weibel believes that the exhibition’s main goal is “to demonstrate different [...]

SFMOMA Announces 2010 SECA Award Winners

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced that Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, and Kamau Amu Patton are the 2010 artists selected for its biennial SECA Art Award. Administered by SECA (Society for the Encouragement o f Contemporary Art), one of the museum’s auxiliaries, the signature award honors Bay Area artists who are working independently at a high level of artistic maturity but who have not yet received substantial recognition. The four award winners [...]

Renowned Los Angeles Painter Ed Moses Opens a Solo Exhibition at Brian Gross Fine Art

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Renowned Los Angeles painter Ed Moses opened a solo exhibition, wic wack, at Brian Gross Fine Art. While Moses is known for his innovative, non-objective abstractions, the works on view explore pattern and figuration through fabric stencils, animal motifs, and face-like forms. The exhibition continues through December 23. Ed Moses, Kracker, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 54 inches. Photo: Courtesy Brian Gross Fine Art These dynamic, textile-like paintings can be a shock to those who identify Moses [...]

SFMOMA Appoints Robert W. Lasher as New Deputy Museum Director, External Relations

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced the appointment of Robert W. Lasher as the museum’s deputy director, external relations, a newly created position. Starting on November 1, 2010, Lasher will supervise a new External Relations division, overseeing the museum’s Development Department and Marketing and Communications Department. He joins SFMOMA’s two current deputy museum directors, of curatorial affairs and of administration and finance, serving under Director Neal Benezra on the museum’s senior leadership team. Lasher [...]

Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery Exhibit at Borusan Müzik Evi

ISTANBUL.- Lehmann Maupin present Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, on view at Borusan Müzik Evi in Istanbul, Turkey, 27 October – 20 November 2010. Five in Istanbul, Lehmann Maupin’s debut exhibition in Turkey, curated by Isabella Icoz, features works by a selection of Lehmann Maupin’s internationally acclaimed artists including Hernan Bas, Teresita Fernández, Tracey Emin, Tony Oursler, and Jennifer Steinkamp.  The Miami-based artist Hernan Bas explores the codes of dandyism and its subculture as a means [...]

SFMOMA Presents Major U.S. Retrospective of Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, on view from October 30, 2010, to January 30, 2011. The first large-scale retrospective of the artist’s work to be presented in the U.S. in more than three decades, The Modern Century features some 300 prints from Cartier-Bresson’s professional career from 1929 to 1989, with an emphasis on the years 1932 to 1973. The exhibition explores a fresh understanding of the artist, with a full [...]

SFMOMA Announces New Body of Work by R.H. Quaytman

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From October 22, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition New Work: R. H. Quaytman. Organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, SFMOMA assistant curator of painting and sculpture, the exhibition features a new series of paintings commissioned by the museum and made specifically for the exhibition at SFMOMA, the artist’s second solo museum exhibition and the first presentation on the West Coast. Modest in scale, Quaytman’s paintings on beveled [...]

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Showcases Works by Paul Klee

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From August 7, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will showcase the exhibition Prints by Paul Klee (1946). Organized by John Zarobell, SFMOMA assistant curator, collections, exhibitions, and commissions, the exhibition features 21 works. SFMOMA has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Paul Klee over its 75-year history. This exhibition re-creates a show of prints by the Swiss-born modernist held at the museum in 1946. At that time, Klee’s [...]

Richard Misrach: After Katrina Marks Gift of Katrina Photographs Series to MFAH

HOUSTON, TX.- American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) gave 69 Katrina photographs to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in May 2010, which will be on view for the first time this summer. Focusing on the graffiti left by New Orleans evacuees, Richard Misrach: After Katrina reveals a range of individual reactions, giving a human face to the wreckage. Misrach shot the Katrina photographs between October and December 2005 with a 4 MP pocket camera. Richard Misrach: After Katrina, on [...]

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