WORCESTER, Mass. — In February 2022, the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) will present its new exhibition Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity, an in-depth look at how contemporary artists since the mid-1970s have used formal artistic devices in their work — such as text, juxtaposition, pattern, and seriality — to explore socio-political concepts. The exhibition opens February 19 and runs through Juneteenth, which takes place on June 19.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Glass, stone and resin compose sculptural works by Nevine Mahmoud that simultaneously evoke the human body, inanimate objects and organic forms. They are at once natural and manufactured; alive and disembodied; inviting and disturbing. The nine works in the exhibition are arranged across the gallery space by the artist, who is deeply engaged in exhibition design, to propel visual associations and conversations between the works. Nevine Mahmoud / MATRIX 188 is on view at the Wadsworth from February 3 to May 1.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A landmark exhibition, Picasso and the Allure of the South, opens on January 29 at The Dali Museum. The exhibition’s 79 paintings, drawings and collages – approximately half of which have never been seen in the U.S. – are on loan from the Musee National Picasso-Paris and the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, New York. The Dali is the only venue worldwide to present this exhibition, which is curated by Dr. William Jeffett, The Dali Museum’s chief curator. The exhibit continues through May 22.
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, examines southern aesthetic and musical traditions of early 20th-century Black culture, influences now common throughout the American South and contemporary American art and culture. It will open at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on March 12 and continue through July 25.
WASHINGTON — The opulence and invention that characterized the evolution of hard-paste porcelain are explored in the special exhibition The Luxury of Clay: Porcelain Past and Present, on view this year at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens from February 19 through June 26. With more than 125 objects, ranging from 18th-century Meissen, Du Paquier, KPM, and the Imperial Porcelain Factory to contemporary objects that reimagine the enduring art form today, The Luxury of Clay will explore how the important discovery of so-called “true porcelain” in Europe ignited centuries of innovation and creativity.
PARIS (AP) – In a decision with potential ramifications across European museums, France is displaying 26 looted colonial-era artifacts for one last time before returning them home to Benin. The wooden anthropomorphic statues, royal thrones and sacred altars were pilfered by the French army in the 19th century from Western Africa.
BALTIMORE — The Walters Art Museum has received a $463,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan. The grant will fund new community engagement, accessibility, and inclusivity initiatives at the Walters, as well as support the museum’s core missions including free education, exhibitions, and virtual offerings.
LONDON – The world’s oldest map of the stars will go on display for the very first time in the UK at the British Museum next year. It will be a major highlight of a new special exhibition on Stonehenge which will open at the museum in February, the first details of which were announced October 18.
PARIS – The Fondation Louis Vuitton presents The Morozov Collection, one of the world’s foremost collections of Impressionist and Modern art. Opened on September 22 and on view through February 22th, 2022, this major international exhibition brings together in Paris 200 masterpieces from the French and Russian modern art collection of the brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov. This is the first time the collection has traveled outside of Russia since its creation at the turn of the 20th century.