04/25/2009. MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Art that reaches beyond itself to describe the limits of what we know—and the immensity of what we don’t—is surveyed in the Walker Art Center exhib...

04/26/2009. SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Artist Susan Hiller's chance encounter with a Berlin street called Judenstrasse (Jews Street) in 2002 was the unexpected experience that set into motion an arduous three year journey to find and photograph every street in G...

04/26/2009. BENTONVILLE, AR.- Museum officials at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that Virginia Germann has joined the museum’s senior staff as the Director of Museum Relatio...

04/26/2009. LONDON.- The Many Faces of Buddhism, a series of arts and cultural events drawing on Buddhist cultural traditions, are being presented in London by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, from Saturday 25 April to Sunday 17 May to coincide with...

04/26/2009. CARDIFF.- One of National Museum Cardiff's main art exhibitions in 2009 will reveal the work of legendary New York photographer Diane Arbus (1923 -1971), who transformed the art of photo...

04/26/2009. VANCOUVER, BC.- Vancouver artist Reece Terris is building a 60-foot architectural installation straight up through the heart of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Focusing on the evolution of...

04/24/2009. PARIS.-A triennial event organized at initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, LA FORCE DE L’ART aims to put on stage contemporary French creation and the artists who bring it about, with all the diversity of their origins...

04/25/2009. NAPLES, FL.- The Naples Art Association at The von Liebig Art Center opened its annual statewide juried exhibition, Art Encounter, to national submissions for the first time and received submissions from 261 artists living in 36 states. Exhibi...

04/25/2009. KANSAS CITY, MO.- Urban Culture Project is pleased to present Missed Connections, a solo exhibition of work by Kansas City artist Paul Shortt. The show opens Friday, May 15, 6-9pm with a free reception at Urban Culture Project Space, 21 East ...

04/25/2009. CHESTERFIELD.- A major sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, was unveiled today by the artist's granddaughter following its return home to Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Leading independent cha...

04/25/2009. NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today a new endowment fund and promised gift of artwork in memory of the great American street photographer Helen Levitt, who died on March 29, 2009, at the age of 95. The Helen Levitt Me...

04/25/2009. NEW YORK.- Like many artists who came of age in the early 1960s, John Wood has long put progressive social concerns at the center of his work. Quiet Protest, a series by the noted mixed media artist and educator, will be on view at the <a href...

04/25/2009. SAN DIEGO, CA.- Mingei International Museum will present a lecture, SHIBUI — The Essence of Elegance, at 4:30 on Saturday, May 2 at the Museum in Balboa Park. The speaker is Hollis Goodall, cur...

04/25/2009. EAST HAMPTON, NY.- The LongHouse Reserve will open their Spring Season on Saturday, April 25th. Their Rites of Spring opening will feature new sculptures by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Eric Fischl, Gonzalo Fonseca, George Rickey and Johnny Swing. T...

04/25/2009. WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired five chromogenic prints entitled Presidency I–V (2008) by German photographer Thomas Demand (b. 1964), thanks to a gift from Agnes Gu...