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Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce

This is the first exhibition to bring together the work of these four important American women modernists. O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and Pelton (1881-1961) were born six years apart in the 1880s,...

05.12.09
Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City

Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City will reveal the island of Mannahatta on September 12, 1609, the moment of Henry Hudson's arrival – a fresh, green new world at the...

05.08.09
What Was Good Design? MOMA's Message 1944-56

At mid-century, The Museum of Modern Art played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of ‘Good Design,’ a concept that started taking shape in the 1930s and emerged with...

04.29.09
Beverly Semmes and Glenn Adamson

Listen to a conversation between Glenn Adamson, consulting curator to Dirt on Delight, and exhibition artist Beverly Semmes. Adamson’s book Thinking Through Craft (Berg Publishers, 2007)...

04.29.09
Venice Art Walk "ART & ARCHITECTURE" Tours

The Venice Art Walk "ART & ARCHITECTURE" Tours are returning! Three separately ticketed home tours will take place on Saturday May 16 and Sunday May 17. Saturday tours include a...

04.29.09
Closing Next Week: Deborah Butterfield

At the opening for sculptor Deborah Butterfield’s current show at L.A. Louver gallery, which runs through May 9, visitor after visitor walked up to the monumental bronze horses, leaned...

04.27.09
Trains and Other Transport,

This is an opening reception for Minneapolis–based painter Beth Loraine Bowman's new collection of works, Trains and Other Transport.

04.18.09
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

This is the first major museum retrospective in the United States to survey the work of León Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) and Mira Schendel (Brazilian, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988), and...

04.14.09
Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded

This exhibition of approximately 70 works from MoMA’s collection that explore and manipulate the materiality of paper. Comprising prints and illustrated books as well as drawings and a papier...

04.14.09
Fourth All-Media Juried Biennial

The exhibition will include original paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, video, computer-generated images, site-specific installations, and performance art from Florida-based...

04.09.09
Artist-in-residence Zhang Peili

Video artist Zhang Peili will discuss the history and future of video in China and will preview examples of his recent work. This panel discussion with feature Peili and Jane Farver, Director, MIT...

04.09.09
HATCHfest Asheville

HATCHfest is the first international mentoring festival for the creative arts and design world. The mission is: To provide mentorship, education, inspiration and recognition to the next generation...

04.07.09
Esque Show at Heath

Andi Kovel and Justin Parker of Portland-Oregon–based Esque Studio will be onhand to discuss their work, which will be display at Heath through mid-May.

04.02.09
Art Auction 2009

A live auction, hosted by guest auctioneer Andrea Fiuczynski, president of Christie's Los Angeles, will include original contemporary artwork by emerging and established California artists,...

03.26.09
Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde

Jaromír Funke (1896–1945) was one of the foremost photographers of the 1920s and 1930s in Czechoslovakia. Funke's work merged with the mainstream amateur movement, as well as national...

03.25.09
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes toward landscape over the last hundred years.

03.24.09
Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905–1913

In 1905 four architecture students founded a new artistic movement with an emphasis on vivid color and emotional directness. This group, called Brücke ("bridge in German), founded by Frtiz Bieyl,...

03.22.09
Exhibition: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1917

During the years spanning the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Russia was in spiritual, social, and cultural crisis. This exhibition explores the way Russian avant-garde poets and artists responded to...

03.20.09
Boolean Valley

Potter Adam Silverman and architect Nader Tehrani collaborated on this room-sized installation, which is comprised of 400 cut-clay objects that together form a topographic sculptural landscape. The...

03.20.09
Pablo Picasso—Mosqueteros

This is the first exhibition in the United States to focus on the late paintings since "Picasso: The Last Years: 1963-1973" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1984. The collection of works,...

03.01.09