The Museum of Modern Art Announces a Retrospective of Cindy Sherman for 2012

The Museum of Modern Art Announces a Retrospective of Cindy Sherman for 2012

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Museum of Modern Art will present the exhibition Cindy Sherman, a retrospective survey tracing the groundbreaking artist's career from the mid 1970s to the present, from February 26 through June 11, 2012. The exhibition will bring together more than 170 key photographs from a variety of the artist's acclaimed bodies of work, for which she created myriad constructed characters and tableaus. The first comprehensive museum survey of Sherman's career in the United States since 1997, it will draw widely from public and private collections, including the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is organized by Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.

memories can be described as reconstructions

Riflemaker in Soho to feature Alice Anderson's "Time Reversal"

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:32 PM PDT

LONDON.- The French/Algerian artist Alice Anderson (b.1976) will fill Riflemaker in Soho with thousands of metres of hair as part of an installation, including film, sculptures and photographs, based on fictional childhood memories from 1 March 2010. Anderson considers time, or more particularly the way that time shapes itself, to be her most significant working material. For her, memories can be described as reconstructions, often distorted to the extent that each becomes a creation or fiction itself. She views memory as the ‘master of fiction’, whereby the passage of time may lead to a remembrance being more akin to fiction than fact. 

Over Ten Million Images from the LIFE'S Photo Archive

Over Ten Million Images from the LIFE'S Photo Archive to be Available on Google Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT   NEW YORK, NY - Access to LIFE's Photo Archive -- over 10 million images in total -- will soon be available on a new hosted image service from Google, Time Inc. has announced. Ninety-seven percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public. The collection contains some of the most iconic images of the 20th century, including works from great photojournalists Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith.

Sony World Photography Awards

Sony World Photography Awards Winners Showcased at Somerset House Posted: 26 Apr 2011 07:22 PM PDT LONDON.- The Sony World Photography Awards Winners’ Showcase is the flagship exhibition of the World Photography Festival. Showcase theme 'From Chaos into Order' mirrors the process by which we make sense of photographs in the world. All of the World Photography Organisation’s Festival exhibitions run from April 26 through May 22, at the prestigious Somerset House, London.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) to feature 'Photographic Figures'

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) to feature 'Photographic Figures'

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 07:30 PM PDT

 

BOSTON, MA - On November 19th, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will open its first exhibition space permanently dedicated to photography. The gallery’s premiere exhibition, Photographic Figures, will be on view through May 10, 2009 in the Herb Ritts Gallery and the adjacent Clementine Haas Michel Brown Gallery. Artists have long taken advantage of the camera’s ability to capture expressive images of the human form, from straightforward documentation to poetic metaphor. This exhibition explores the diversity of these approaches by artists working with a camera.

Sandy Skoglund

The Akron Art Museum presents 'Unveiled: Acquisitions from the Museum's Collection' Posted: 23 Apr 2011 07:57 PM PDT AKRON, OH - Amazingly, nearly 700 works of art were added to the Akron Art Museum’s collection over the past five years despite the fact that the museum was closed from March 2004 to July 2007 for re-construction. While many of the new pieces made their Akron debut when the museum opened its new collection galleries, hundreds of other objects wait to surprise visitors over the next few years. Unveiled: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum’s Collection, on view August 30 through November 30, 2008, in the museum’s Judith Bear Isroff Gallery, brings to light 19 of those recent gifts and introduces visitors to new, inspiring and challenging works of art.

Edward J Muybridge

The Frick Art Museum opens "Icons of American Photography" in Pittsburgh

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 07:57 PM PDT

PITTSBURGH, PA.- On October 3, 2009, Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opens at The Frick Art Museum. This exhibition is composed of fifty-nine photographs from Cleveland’s extraordinary collection that chronicle the evolution of photography in America from a scientific curiosity in the 1850s to one of the most potent forms of artistic expression of the twentieth century. Culture and refinement of the Gilded Age at the Frick Art & Historical Center, located on beautifully landscaped gardens in Pittsburgh's East End. The museum and its multiple collections are the legacy of Helen Clay Frick, daughter of Henry Clay Frick, one of America's greatest industrialists and art collectors.