Jaume Plensa at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
April 9, 2011 - Extended until January 22, 2012Jaume Plensa will have his largest museum exhibition to-date at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, UK, open though January 22, 2012
Marc Swanson at Contemporary Art Museum Houston Perspectives 175: Marc Swanson: The Second Story
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Jan Tichy awarded 2010 Nathan Gottesdiener Prize
May 25, 2011The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Israel’s most important private prize for the arts has been awarded annually to an Israeli artist under the age of 40 since 1995.
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Jaume Plensa's 'Echo' slated for Madison Square Park May 5 - August 14, 2011
The Madison Square Park Conservancy will present 'Echo' by Jaume Plensa as part of Madison Square Art 2011. Mad. Sq. Art is the free gallery without walls presented by the Madison Square Park Conservancy in the historic 6.2-acre park located at 5th Avenue and 23rd Street. Please contact the gallery or visit www.madisonsquarepark.org for further information.
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Rashid Johnson included in the 54th Venice Biennale 2011
March 11, 2011Rashid Johnson will be included in the 54th Venice Biennale "ILLUMInation" Exhibition (2011), curated by Bice Curiger.
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Jan Tichy White Light/Black Light
January 28 - April 3Wood Street Galleries
Pittsburgh, PA
Ewan Gibbs Drawn from Photography
February 18 – March 31The Drawing Center
New York, NY
Jim Dine Sculpture
January 28 - May 8Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Grand Rapids, MI
Jan Tichy leads community art project to "light" the last high-rise at Cabrini-Green Chicago
March 28 - April 24, 2011
Beginning on the evening of March 28, the last high-rise building at the Cabrini-Green housing projects (1230 N. Burling St., Chicago) will be lit up in the form of 134 LED lights, one for each apartment in the building. The light installation will be visible in the evenings during the four-week demolition period. As the building is razed, the lights will be demolished along with the building.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art commissions large-scale outdoor sculpture by Marc Swanson October 2010
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art commissioned Marc Swanson to make a large-scale outdoor sculpture, titled "Descent of Civilization (Bison Memorial)". The work was installed in downtown Kansas City at the corner of 9th & Broadway on October 13, 2010 and is part of the museum's collection. Concurrently, the Kemper is also presenting a solo exhibition of the artist's work which runs through April 10, 2011.
Ewan Gibbs: America opens at Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College, North Carolina August 2010
Ewan Gibbs: America
August 27-October 6, 2010
Van Every/Smith Galleries at the Belk Visual Arts Center
Davidson College
Davidson, North Carolina
Artist Lecture: Tuesday, September 14, 7:00 pm
Semens Lecture Hall inside the Belk Visual Arts Center
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art commissions eighteen drawings by Ewan Gibbs
January–June 2010The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art commissioned Ewan Gibbs to make a suite of eighteen drawings of San Francisco. These works are presented in the form of a solo exhibition at the museum, on view from January 16 through June 17, 2010, on the occasion of the institution's 75th anniversary. All eighteen works are acquired for the museum's permanent collection.
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Peter Norton Family Christmas Project 2009 commission awarded to Marc Swanson
Christmas 2009Since 1988, Peter Norton has commissioned a different artist each year to produce an iconic multiple that is shipped to an exclusive list of collectors, curators, critics, artists, and friends of the Norton family worldwide. With this honor, Marc Swanson joins the ranks of such previously-commissioned artists as Jim Hodges, Kara Walker, Vik Muniz, Christian Marclay, Takashi Murakami, Lorna Simpson, Yinka Shonibare, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.