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Barbara Sternberger’s lush abstract paintings demonstrate her interest in discovering a harmony between the application of paint and how it expresses the artist’s lived experiences.  Conceptually her paintings are neither planned nor arbitrary.  The paintings reveal themselves during the process of their making, in the present moment.  For Confluence, Sternberger takes her exploration to a ne...   [more]

Opening: July 3rd   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Spectacle is a groundbreaking and sensory exploration of music video as an art form of our time. The most comprehensive exhibition on music video presented to date, Spectacle features over 300 works, taking the visitor through a labyrinth of sound, movement and vision.   Presented across nine thematic sections, Spectacle is experienced through a dynamic fusion of interactive installations, project...   [more]

Opening: September 26th   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Images from photography’s early years have a peculiar temporality. They evoke a seemingly remote past through old-fashioned clothing and poses, as well as often unfamiliar customs and geographies. But they also deliver the past to us in a very immediate and familiar way. Through photography, the past is always with us — it is ‘ever present’. This exhibition, drawn from the Gallery’s historica...   [more]

‘Sugar’ reflects on the history of the industry that first brought South Sea Islanders to Australia. The exhibition features a selection of historical photographs documenting South Sea Islanders working in Queensland, drawn from the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery and the State Library of Queensland. These photographs are accompanied by recordings of stories and music which explore th...   [more]

Explore over 200 years of British quiltmaking. Every stitch tells a story. Quilts stimulate memories of warmth, comfort and security. They are familiar objects, yet carry a range of hidden histories and untold stories about textiles, women’s creativity and the lives of individuals and families. British quilts were often made for display as much as for use in the bedroom. Whether exchanged as commodit...   [more]

Opening: June 15th   9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The true nature of existence lies in change itself, so that change—or flux—is the fundamental principle of the macrocosm. From this it follows that I am composed of a bundle of waves or flux. — Tawara YÅ«saku (1932-2004)   Organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara YÅ«saku is the first large-scale exhibition in this country of the famed Japanese artistâ€...   [more]

Opening: June 19th   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

As part of PRINTHOUSTON 2013, the Museum of Printing History is pleased to present PRINTTX, the first juried exhibition of contemporary Texas artists. Organized by PrintMatters in collaboration with MPH, the exhibition was juried by Peter S. Briggs, the Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Art at the Museum of Texas Tech University. Briggs chose 23 works by 20 artists. Briggs states, “An important dimensio...   [more]

Curated by Chicago-based artist Paul Andrew Wandless, Clay & Print IV is part of a series of exhibitions that have examined how artists are exploring the intersection between ceramics and printmaking. Wandless states that “clay prints utilizing printmaking methods are usually looked upon as just clay versions of what could be done on paper. This completely ignores how clay materials re-contextualize an ima...   [more]

In collaboration with the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas, the Museum of Printing History is pleased to present Optical Spaces – the Art of Victor Vasarely, organized by Houston-based artist Orna Feinstein. Victor Vasarely (1906—1997), a Hungarian born artist active in France throughout the twentieth century, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Op-Art movement. Through hi...   [more]

The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey - Where Art and History Intersect offers an inspirational journey through five centuries of African American history, culture and heritage. The exhibition celebrates Bernard and Shirley Kinsey’s passion for collecting objects of extraordinary significance over the 40 years of their marriage, illuminating the often untold stor...   [more]

Opening: June 29th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Aspects of singer songwriter Paul Kelly's performance persona are communicated by portraits selected from a range of artists and leading music photographers in this focus exhibition. The exhibition is developed in partnership with Shark Island Productions with the support of The Caledonia Foundation.   [more]

Opening: June 19th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Emily Hilda Rix, born in Ballarat in 1884, left Australia in March 1907, having trained for three years at the National Gallery School. She, her sister Elsie and their widowed mother Elizabeth proceeded from London – where Hilda studied at the New Art School – to Paris, where she attended art classes at the Académie Delecluse and the Grande Chaumière. Drawings that she made there afford a be...   [more]

An exhibition of master drawings and prints by the little-known but gifted Italian artist Pietro Testa opens at the Scottish National Gallery this weekend. Testa (1612–50) was one of the most talented Italian draughtsmen and etchers of the seventeenth century. His prints in particular had an enduring influence and were much admired and imitated by neoclassical artists in the eighteenth century. Born in the Tu...   [more]

Opening: June 15th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Opening: June 28th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Der brasilianisch-schweizerische Künstler Pedro Wirz (*1981 in São Paulo) beschäftigt sich in seiner Arbeit immer wieder mit dem Wechselspiel unterschiedlicher Akteure im Ausstellungswesen. Er gibt Regeln vor und kreiert Spielfelder, auf denen Künstler und Kuratoren interagieren können. Im Dortmunder Kunstverein zeigt er seine neue Werkreihe ‚Tropical‘, in der sich sein langjähriges Int...   [more]

Opening: June 29th   11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Established in 1983 as Taiwan’s first modern art museum, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum is holding the special exhibition TFAM before and after 1983 for the occasion of its 30th anniversary this year. Before / after 1983 takes as its point of departure the competition and exhibition held biennially from 1984 until 1994 titled New Horizons: Contemporary Trends in Chinese Art, which featured patterns of...   [more]