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Urban commoners in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan, known as the Floating World, enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle that included the pleasure of the companionship of pet animals. Many woodblock prints of fashionable beauties show them accompanied by elegant, pampered pets that symbolize luxury and sensuality. Formerly a prerogative of the nobility, pets were now available to newly affluent co...   [more]

This exhibition features a range of works from participants in the MFA's Artful Healing program, which brings the MFA collection and Museum educators to three partner institutions—Massachusetts General Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute—to improve environments through art-making, promote healing, and inspire hope in patients, families, and staff. “Artful He...   [more]

Opening: September 15th, 2012   10:00 AM - 4:45 PM

Builders presents more than 100 recent and significant acquisitions by emerging and established artists instrumental in shaping perspectives in Canadian art today. The exhibition reflects the work of the Gallery’s curators in building the collection through an informed understanding of contemporary Canadian art across diverse media, environments and generations.   [more]

Opening: November 2nd, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Opening: February 19th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

For Antonio Rovaldi (Italian, b. Parma, 1975; lives and works in Milan), frequent long-distance walks and bike rides provide an open-air studio for him to contemplate landscape, space, and distance. These elements are often key to his drawings, sculpture, photography, performance, and video art. In The Opening Day, 2009, a pitcher takes aim at mass-produced ceramics displayed as if they are classic...   [more]

Opening: July 6th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  “Untitled,” a temporary intervention in the Townhouse Factory Space by Cairo-based artist Daniel Rode, is the culmination of a series of artistic investigations that span the past year and a half. The aesthetics of error inform the central piece in the installation — a large-format printed banner with a pattern taken from Cairo’s abandoned billboards. When these billboa...   [more]

With the title UnBound, this exhibition explores how culture moves beyond cartographic or physical boundaries, from the physical passage of the object to questioning how ideas and histories are carried and rewritten, responding to different criteria and value constructs.Commissioned by the Australian Embassy Manila, in partnership with the Yuchengco Museum, Australian curator Gina Fairley has turn...   [more]

Opening: January 23rd   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

"It's not the story of the battle; it's the battle of the story!" Patrick Reinsborough In the last few years we have witnessed how the corrosion of the three main modes of social imaginary that defined modernity – the market economy, the public sphere, and the self-government of citizens – has reached a critical point. As a result, the increasing number of people in different fields, socia...   [more]

Portals of Misconception features a site specific installation by sculptor Aldon Mines and installation artist Shannon Gowen as well individual works from both artists.  Aldon's sculptures draw viewers in and ask them to question preconceived ideas of functionality and practicality.  Shannon seamlessly intertwines elements of fiber art, embroidery, collage and sculpture into her installations.  Together th...   [more]

Opening: January 19th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Drop by CMCA during February school vacation week to see The Recycled Menagerie, a delightful collection of whimsical creatures created by the late Joel Glassman (1911-2007) of Camden. Made almost entirely from discarded and recycled materials, the menagerie will charm and inspire viewers of all ages. The exhibit will be open Monday through Saturday, February 18 – 23, 10am to 4pm. If you...   [more]

Opening: February 18th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Andreas Reiter Raabe zeigt in seiner ersten Einzelausstellung in unserer Galerie neue Werkeaus unterschiedlichen Arbeitsphasen.Renate Wiehager entwickelt in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk von Andreas ReiterRaabe mit dem Begriff der „Distanz“ ein perspektivierendes Konzept, das dieunterschiedlichen Werkgruppen zueinander in Beziehung setzt.„Das Werk von Andreas Reiter Raabe hat sich von Beginn...   [more]

Opening: December 13th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Everything you can imagine is real. —Pablo Picasso Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present selected works by Pablo Picasso. One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Picasso’s oeuvre encompasses nearly twenty thousand artworks, transcending all attempts at categorization.  On view are works in various mediums, which span the breadth of his diverse and prolific output. It wa...   [more]

Opening: November 1st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Galerie Bob van Orsouw take great pleasure in hosting a solo show of Japanese artist Daido Moriyama. In view of Moriyama’s 2012 retrospective at Tate Modern, the show presents vintage prints from the past four decades, some of which have never been shown in public. Daido Moriyama is the most celebrated photographer to emerge from Japan’s late 1960s Provoke movement, and one of the countr...   [more]

"In den letzten Jahren haben sich Annelies Štrbas Fotografien immer weiter von ihren früheren Abbildungen häuslichen Lebens entfernt, ihre Serie ,My Life's Dreams' gibt aufschlussreiche Hinweise darauf, wohin es ihr Herz mittlerweile gezogen hat: Sie wurde zur Geschichtenerzählerin, die Märchen spinnt und Handlungsnetze webt, (...) Die Serie ‚My Life's Dreams' beinhaltet zahlreiche Fotos sc...   [more]

Opening: January 12th   11:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf is delighted to present works by Jörg Sasse from his series of Still Lifes and Tableaux.   Whether curtains, stairways, radiators, reflections in windows or unique lighting conditions - with an eye for detail Jörg Sasse reveals fragments of our everyday environment. Since the 1980s the artist has photographed seemingly plain everyday objects in private homes, public build...   [more]

Opening: December 1st, 2012   3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

THE TIGER’S MIND:  a film by BEATRICE GIBSON with Will Holder, Alex Waterman, Jesse Ash, Céline Condorelli and John Tilbury.The Tiger's Mind (2012) is an abstract crime thriller set against the backdrop of a Brutalist villa. Six characters, the Tiger, the Mind, the Tree, the Wind, the Circle and a girl called Amy, (the set, the music, the sounds, the special effects, the director and narrat...   [more]

Opening: December 15th, 2012   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM