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In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976

This is an exhibition of 75 works by ten American and European artists relating to travel and the city of Amsterdam. Focusing on Conceptual art practices between 1960 and 1976, the show includes...

07.15.09
Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space

This exhibition celebrates artist and sculptor Ruth Asawa (1926- ) and features her earliest sculptures, drawings and paintings created while studying at Black Mounain College with Josef Albers,...

07.12.09
Not New Work

San Francisco–based sculptor Vincent Fecteau culled through the museum's collection to present this exhibition of 25 rarely-seen artworks from artists such as Judy Chicago, Max Ernst, Richard...

07.01.09
Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act

This exhibition will feature a selection of the American sculptor's work from 1927 through to the mid-1970s. Many pieces will be from Jon and Mary Shirley's collection—many of which are...

07.01.09
Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood

Celebrated for his work as a modernist painter, teacher, and author, Joaquin Torres-García is also known for breaking new ground in the realm of wooden constructions or “maderas.&rdquo...

07.01.09
William Kentridge: Five Themes

The exhibition features the first American presentation and catalogue of the new work Kentridge has created since 2000 that dramatically expands his technical innovations as an artist filmmaker,...

06.22.09
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