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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS Nov. 1, 2011
15 New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South AsiaMetropolitan Museum of Art Nov. 1, 2011 The grand reopening of 15 redone galleries -- 19,000-square-feet in all -- traces the course of Islamic civilization over a span of 13 centuries, exhibiting a rotating selection of 1,200 works in textile, tapestry, calligraphy, metalwork, textile, books and more, and including the ornate Damascus Room, built in A.H.1119/ 1707 A.D., one of the finest examples of Syrian Ottoman reception rooms Also on view: “Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections,” Nov. 8, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012; “The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis,” Nov. 15, 2011-Apr. 22, 2012; “Lisbon’s Hebrew Bible: Medieval Jewish Art in Context,” Nov. 22, 2011-Jan. 16, 2012; “Storytelling in Japanese Art,” Nov. 19, 2011-May 6, 2012
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Oct. 3, 2011
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Pacific Standard Time rules in Los Angeles. Plus, Degas dancers, Degas nudes, “Art and Black Los Angeles,” “Dance/Draw,” Alfred Stieglitz’s artists, Impressionist works on paper, Caravaggio, Hans Haacke, Tristan Lowe, Carsten Höller, more.
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Sept. 1, 2011
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Zaha Hadid, Willem de Kooning, “Warhol on the Mall,” Swoon, ASCO, Ezra Jack Keats, Xu Bing, Fluxus, Eva Hesse, De Wain Valentine, Bertrand Goldberg, and September 11th commemorated.
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Aug. 1, 2011
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Ai Weiwei, Yoshua Okon, "Richard Prince: Covering Pollock," Dieter Ram, Carlito Carvahlosa, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, more.
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July 1, 2011
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Helmut Newton, Fabergé, Chitra Ganesh, George Herms, Spiral, "Talk to Me" design at MoMA, Frans Hals, TASS posters, more.
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June 1, 2011
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Ryan Trecartin, Ed Ruscha, Frank Stella, Wassily Kandinsky, Lee Ufan, Bryan Hunt, Dorothea Rockburne, Lyonel Feininger, "John Waters curates," Joseph Cornell, more.
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May 2, 2011
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Alexander McQueen, FutureFarmers, the Cone Sisters, Francis Alÿs, Uta Barth, Gustav Metzger, "The Steins Collect," Titian, Cory Arcangel, more.
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Apr. 1, 2011
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSDavid Smith, the Freer's Peacock Room, Gabriel Metsu, Richard Serra, Street Art, Renaissance prints in daily life, more.
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Mar. 1, 2011
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Chagall in Paris, William Leavitt, Glenn Ligon, "Clay on the Skin," Sonia Delaunay, Sheila Hicks, "German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse".
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Feb. 1, 2011
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Gabriel Kuri, Luis Camnitzer, Fischli & Weiss, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Lynda Benglis, Cézanne's "Card Players," Picasso's guitars, Rembrandt, Van Cleef & Arpels, Gauguin, more
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Jan. 1, 2010
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Matika Wilbur, Esteban Vicente, "The Deconstructive Impulse," Filippino Lippi, Ter Bruggen, Wang Qingsong, "The Peacock Male," Jim Nutt, more.
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Nov. 2, 2010
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Michelangelo Pistoletto, "The Global African Project," Norman Rockwell, Vija Celmins, "How Wine Became Modern," more.
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Oct. 5, 2010
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Paul Thek, "The Artists Museum," Jan Gossart, "Free," Yoshua Okón, "The Pre-Raphaelite Lens," My Barbarian, "Chaos and Classicism," Emily Wardill, more.
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Aug. 2, 2010
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Leonard Nimoy, late Dalí, Superflex, "Underground Pop," "Work of Art: The Winner," more.
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July 1, 2010
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NINETEEN TOP SHOWS
Christian Marclay, "Performative Actions," Norman Rockwell, Brion Gysin, Dennis Hopper, Charles Ledray, "Matisse 1913-1917," Thomas Eakins, more.
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June 2, 2010
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Rivane Neuenschwander, José Guadalupe Posada, KAWS, Stephen G. Rhodes, "Introducing the Fisher Collection," more.
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May 1, 2010
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Allen Ginsberg’s photos, Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, "Kurt," Yves Klein, Petah Coyne, more.
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Apr. 1, 2010
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dr. Lakra, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Daria Martin, Tara Donovan, more.
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Mar. 1, 2010
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
"Skin Fruit," Otto Dix, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Marina Abramovic, "The Allure of the Automobile," more.
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Feb. 2, 2010
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Political cartoons, cross-dressing, time in design, Victorian photocollage, artists’ studios, "Contemplating the Void," the Whitney Biennial, more.
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Jan. 5, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Keren Cytter, "Collecting Biennials," Agnolo Bronzino, Stephen Prina, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Tino Sehgal, more.
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Dec. 1, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Gabriel Orozco, Milton Rogovin, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, "The Reach of Realism," "Cartier in America," SFMoMA’s anniversary, more.
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Nov. 3, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Andy Warhol?s Polaroids, Jane Austen?s stuff, Bruce Nauman?s Venice works, "Italics," Roni Horn, Marcel Wanders, Tim Burton, more.
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Oct. 1, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
"Heartland," "Dress Codes," William T. Wiley, Arshile Gorky, rock-n-roll photos, Indian comix, more.
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Sept. 1, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Joaquín Torres-García, Georgia O'Keeffe, Vasily Kandinsky, Haegue Yang, Mary Delany, Madeleine Albright’s pins, more
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Aug. 3, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Ron Arad, Abraaj Prize, Jack Tworkov, Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés, lots of design shows, more.
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July 1, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Dorothy Iannone, Catharine Yass, Hurvin Anderson, "A Case for Wine," Obama’s mom’s art.
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June 1, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
Top Museum Shows, June 2009: Dan Graham, Jules Dalou, "The Erotic Object," "The Art of Power," Korean contemporary artists, more.
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May 1, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS"New Feminist Video," "The Model as Muse," Claes Oldenberg, Francis Bacon, Amy Blakemore, Richard Avedon, more.
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Apr. 1, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWS"Younger Than Jesus," "The Pictures Generation," Arthur Carter, Luis Gispert, Ann Lislegaard, Guido Van der Werve, more.
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Mar. 2, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWSMarch museum openings: "Afghanistan," Martin Kippenberger, Jenny Holzer, "The Pictures Generation," "The Psychedelic Experience," Paul Outerbridge, more.
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Feb. 2, 2009
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TWENTY TOP SHOWSFebruary museum openings in the U.S., including Philip Guston, Paul Cezanne, Shepard Fairey, Hernan Bas, more.
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Dec. 3, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSAnri Sala, "Russian Dreams," Ulysses Davis, Simon Starling, "Bloomsbury Artists," Harry Shearer, Baroque in Bologna, "The Fertile Goddess," more.
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Nov. 1, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSProspect.1 New Orleans, Sol LeWitt wall drawings, "Hearst the Collector," Raqib Shaw, William Eggleston, Barkley L. Hendricks, more.
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Oct. 1, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSGilbert & George, Elizabeth Peyton, Tara Donovan, James Castle, early Calder, "Artistic Luxury," Philippe de Montebello, more.
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Sept. 1, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSFrancis Alÿs, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Richard Avedon’s "Portraits of Power," George de Forest Brush, "Street Art, Street Life," Giorgio Morandi, Babar, Assyria, van Gogh, Catherine Opie, more.
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Aug. 1, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSGian Lorenzo Bernini, "Dream Car" Model-rama, California Conceptualism, Greenfield-Sanders’ Black List, "3-logy Triennial 2008," more. |
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July 1, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSThe architecture of John Lautner, the design of Thomas Hope, "Op Art Revisited" in Buffalo, prefab houses at MoMA, more.
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June 1, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSMarlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Peter Saul, Nandalal Bose, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Maria Sibylla Merian, more.
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June 1, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSMarlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Peter Saul, Nandalal Bose, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Maria Sibylla Merian, more.
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Apr. 1, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSPaul Chan, "Robots," the Miss Rockaway Armada, Henry Darger and contemporary art, "Black Is Black Ain’t," El Greco to Velazquez, more. |
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Mar. 1, 2008
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSThe Whitney Biennial, "The American Evolution," women in collaboration, "California Video," Allan Kaprow, Amy Sillman, George Rodrigue, James Luna, more. |
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Nov. 1, 2007
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New This Month in U.S. Museums"Picturing the Bible," "Extreme Embroidery," "Meanwhile in Iraq. . .," William Steig, Martin Puryear, Lawrence Weiner, Kori Newkirk, more.
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Oct. 1, 20007
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New This Month in U.S. MuseumsJ.M.W. Turner, Takashi Murakami, Yue Minjun, Gustav Klimt, Robert Irwin, Steve Powers, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, more.
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Sept. 1, 20007
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New This Month in U.S. MuseumsRichard Prince, Mark Bradford, "Piranesi as Designer," Cosima Von Bonin, Zhang Huan, Olafur Eliasson, Otabenga Jones & Associates, more.
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June 1, 2007
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSRichard Diebenkorn in New Mexico, "Social Sculpture" in Mexico City, Greeks on the Black Sea, Dutch art in the Berkshires, more.
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May 1, 2007
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMSFrank Stella’s architecture, Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s menagerie, "Design for the Other 90%," Brazilian Constructivism, "Summer of Love," more.
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Apr. 1, 2007
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NEW THIS MONTH IN
U.S. MUSEUMS
"The Last Ruskinians," Patrick Ireland, Karen Kilimnik, "Poets of the Handmade," Lincoln Kirstein, John Armleder, "Arcadia and Anarchy," more.
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Feb. 1, 2007
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NEW THIS MONTH IN
U.S. MUSEUMS
Jeff Wall, George Stubbs, Kara Walker, Thomas Chimes, "Masterpieces of French Painting," "Family Pictures," more.
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Jan. 1, 2007
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NEW THIS MONTH IN
U.S. MUSEUMS
Aitken at MoMA, Cartier-Bresson’s "Scrapbook," "Local Gravity," Francis Bacon, Matisse sculpture, "Radical Lace," Rudolf Stingel, Vija Celmins, more.
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Nov. 1, 2006
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NEW THIS MONTH IN
U.S. MUSEUMS
Walton Ford, Morris Louis, Walid Raad, Paris fashion 2006, German portraits of the 1920s, icons from Sinai, "Africa Comics," Georg Jensen, Magritte and contemporary art, more.
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Oct. 1, 2006
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
"Barcelona and Modernity," "Constable’s Great Landscapes," Pipilotti Rist, Annie Leibovitz, Lucio Fontana, Brice Marden, more. |
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Sept. 1, 2006
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
"Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico," "Cézanne to Picasso," "Ectopia," "Wunderground," "Luminist Horizons," "Shiny," more. |
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July 1, 2006
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Rubens and Brueghel, Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, Cameron Jamie, Henri Rousseau, Jennifer Steinkamp, more. |
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May 2, 2006
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
"AngloMania," Eva Hesse, Grandma Moses, "Tourism and the American Landscape," art and design in Tijuana, more. |
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Mar. 1, 2006
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New This Month in U.S. Museums
Whitney Biennial, Hokusai, Klee, "Contemporary African Photography," William Wegman, "The Art of Engagement," more. |
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Feb. 1, 2006
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New This Month in U.S. Museums
"Dada," David Smith, Stella in 1958, Edvard Munch, Courbet landscapes, late Goya, propaganda posters, Hockney portraits, more. |
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Jan. 1, 2006
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New This Month in U.S. Museums
"The Downtown Show," "Dark Places," Andrea Zittel, Xul Solar, "Cézanne in Provence," "I ♥ the Burbs," more. |
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Oct. 1, 2005
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New This Month in U.S. Museums
Claudel and Rodin, Van Gogh, "Ecstasy" in L.A., "Tropicália" in Chicago, the Wexner’s "part objects," more. |
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New This Month in U.S. Museums
Degas at Harvard, Joan Snyder, Paris in photos, "Pretty Women," Jean Prouvé, Michael C. McMillen’s "Red Trailer Motel," more. |
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NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS
Contemporary art from India, George Herms, Thomas Demand, Larry Clark, Jean-Michel Basquiat, "Greater New York," Toulouse-Lautrec, Daniel Buren, more.
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