Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of coeducation in Yale College and the 150th anniversary of women students at Yale, the Yale Center for British Art will show the exhibition Art in Focus: Women From the Center from April 8 – August 30, 2020.
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s will be on display at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, from April 28 – July 26, 2020.
Citizen Animalia will be on display at the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago from March 2–April 21, 2020. [Art & Education]
At the CAA Annual Conference 2020 RAAMP sponsored the session “Risk and Innovation in Curatorial Practice at University Art Museums.” Issa Lampe spoke about the exhibition “Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self.” Kathleen E.B. Berzock from the The Block Museum of Art shared a talk on “Caravans of Gold, Fragments of Time: Art, Culture, Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa.” Kymberly N. Pinder of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design shared images of “Necessary Force: Art in the Police State” at the University of New Mexico Fine Arts Museum. Eunice Bélidor, Director of the FOFA Gallery at the University of Concordis presented on the exhibition “Over My Black Body” at the Glarie L’Quam of the Université du Québec à Montréal.
The Miami University Art Museum and Sculpture Park will feature the exhibition “Myaamia Ribbonwork,” showing works of the Miami people of Oklahoma. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Myaamia Center on campus at Miami University and the Miami University Art Museum. [Journal-News]
Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute of Contemporary Art will have The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis on display through May 10, 2020. [Hyperallergic]
The shared exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China will be on view at Wrightwood 659 (659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614) and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago (5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637) through May 3, 2020.
Shows will feature the artists Mariam Ghani, Stephanie Syjuco, Simon Fujiwara, Phillip Pyle II, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Martine Gutierrez, and Mika Rottenberg. [Art & Education]