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State of the Art - Exhibition openings (Aug. 9-16)
Even in the middle of the off-season, quite a few shows are set to capture attention.
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Aug 09, 2010
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August Gallery Selections (Spanierman Modern)
Presenting works by twenty-one artists, the show reveals the many strands of connection and divergence within abstract painting from the 1930s to the present. More...
Work of Art: The Winner (Brooklyn Museum of Art)
This unusual exhibition will spotlight the winner of Work of Art, Bravo's hour-long creative competition series among contemporary artists. More...
Underground Pop (The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY)
This exhibition presents thirty-five works by ten artists who share a quirky and idiosyncratic take on the Pop tradition of appropriating popular culture in the service of art. More...
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Heaven and Hell in Japanese Art (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
'Heaven and Hell in Japanese Art' features several Edo-period (1615-1868) Buddhist paintings that have rarely been exhibited. It also highlights a recent loan of a monumental 18th-century sculpture of Amida and his atttendants descending on swirling clouds to the faithful. More...
A Shot in the Dark (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Spanning more than 100 years of artistic production, from early 20th-century landscape painting and modernist abstraction to 1960s conceptualism and contemporary sculpture, this exhibition places a group of recent Walker acquisitions in the context of rarely seen works from the collection, including two films never before on view. More...
Beware Her Wiles: Woman as Temptress in the Renaissance Tradition (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis)
The works in this exhibition are mostly by northern Renaissance artists such as Lucas van Leyden and Hans Burgkmair, but it also includes more recent examples, among them Alphonse Mucha's Salome from L'Estampe Moderne (1897) and a work in watercolor and acrylic by Tina Blondell (after Gustav Klimt) from 1999, titled I'll Make You Shorter by a Head (Judith I). More...
Cultivating Nature: Printmaking for Painting in 17th Century China (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City)
This exhibition explores the two earliest examples of the douban technique, The Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (ca. 1633) and The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual (1679-1701). More...
Leveled: An Interactive Experiment in Art (California Center For The Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido)
This groundbreaking exhibition will shift expected boundaries and conventions within the Museum system between artist, patron and curator as artists Wes Bruce, Ingram Ober and Marisol Rendon and Doris Bittar (in collaboration with poet Diane Gage and musician Jonathan Glasier) present large-scale interactive installations based on different connotations of the word green. More...
Photography (Flowers, Cork Street, London)
Group show with artists Jane Edden, Tim Lewis, and Kleio Gizeli More...
Sweat (Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad)
Group show including artists Aaron Curry, Bjarne Melgaard, Cindy Sherman, Jack Pierson, Kate Gilmore, Kiki Smith, Marc Hundley, Marilyn Minter, Matthew Barney, Mika Rottenberg, Paul Pfeiffer, and Ryan Mcgingley More...
Art Nocturne Knocke 2010 (Knokke-heist, Belgium)
Art Nocturne Knocke has grown into the most important Art & Antiques Fair of the summer season in Europe. More...
Life, Death & Magic: 2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra)
Life, death and magic: 2000 years of Southeast Asian ancestral art is the first major exhibition of animist art from Southeast Asia to be held in Australia. The works of art originate from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, East Timor, Brunei, Thailand, Cambodia and southern China. More...
Edward Burtynsky: Australian Minescapes (Brisbane Powerhouse Arts, New Farm, Australia)
This series of images taken in the Eastern Goldfields and the Pilbara of Western Australia, continues Burtynsky's examination of natural landscapes modified by the quest of the raw materials required by our modern society. More...
Geometry in the Twentieth Century: The Daimler Collection (Malba- Fundacion Costantini, Buenos Aires)
The exhibition will present abstract picture trends in twentieth century art. It contains a selection of 120 works from the Daimler Art Collection, one of the most important corporate collections in the world, especially committed to the ideas and works of the Bauhaus, Constructivist art, minimalism in Europe and America. More...
Compiled by MutualArt.com staff