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-- NYTimes The Larry Gagosian Effect — Wall Street Journal World's Biggest Museum Opens in China — Studio 360 Top Exhibitions of 2010 — The Art Newspaper Recent Art News - Texas Week of 03/27/11 Ed Ruscha at the Modern Museum of Fort Worth — CBS New: Sunday Morning (Video) Simpsons Takes Shots at Dallas Football, Arts District — FrontRow A work in progress: The Dallas Arts District gathers trophy buildings, but still searches for urban vitality — Chicago Tribune James Turrell mound at Rice University - Glasstire Richard Serra, Pushing the Boundaries of Drawing — ARTnews Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/27/11 Ed Ruscha Street Photography — LATimes Stephen Colbert Exposes Himself to Art (the Appropriate Way)-- NYTimes (Video) Jerry Saltz on Andy Warhol's Portraits of Liz Taylor — NYMag Eduardo Souto de Moura, Architect from Portugal, Wins Pritzker — NYTimes Recent Art News - Texas Week of 03/20/11 Neiman Marcus to feature artwork in Windows — FrontRow MAC director resigns — Glasstire Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/20/11 Jerry Saltz: How a Joyride in Gavin Brown's Volvo Became Art — NYMag Walker Art Center to Acquire Merce Cunningham's collection — Art in America Cultural Complex in Santiago di Campostela is expensive mistake - The Art Newspaper Toshiko Takaezu, Ceramic Artist, Dies at 88 — NYTimes Recent Art News - Texas Week of 03/13/11 Artpace San Antonio — YouTube Crow Collection To Expand, Add Asian Sculpture Garden — FrontRow Donor's Son Sues Dallas Museum Over Art Collection, 25 Years Later — NYTimes Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/13/11 Abramovic wins two - year copyright battle — The Art Newspaper Scents and Sensibility, Artists use scent to create new experience in museums — ARTnews Spark: How Creativity Works, by Julie Burstein, Kurt Andersen — Amazon.com (Book) Michelangelo's David «could collapse due to high - speed train building» — Telegraph Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/06/11 Norman Foster to Design Huge Hong Kong Cultural District — NYTimes Recent Art News - Texas Week of 02/27/11 AMOA leaving downtown, focusing on Laguna Gloria — Austin 360 Recent Art News - Texas Week of 02/13/11 Amon Carter's Director of Education Named National Educator of the Year — Amon Carter Museum Blanton curator heads to National Gallery of Art — Austin 360 Director Dana Friis - Hansen departs from the Austin Museum of Art — The Austin Chronicle Dallas Architecture Forum wins AIA National Collaborative Achievment Award — Dallas Archicture Forum Recent Art News - National - International Week of 02/13/11 Egyptian Archeological Sites Were Looted, Says Antiquities Minister — NYTimes Tracey Emin, the visionary, emerges as Margate's answer to William Blake — Guardian What's The Matter With Kansas... This Time?

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Today, visitors can view the actual fossilized neck bones from Big Bend at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, which opened in December 2012 near downtown Dallas.

In about six weeks, the museum will open its biggest - ever exhibition.

Today Biosphere 2 is still open to visitors, a strange mixture of botanical garden, aquarium, and house museum about the lives of the early - 1990s Biospherians with slightly big hair and loose - fitting clothes.

They also became bigger to more effectively digest this low quality food, and as a strategy against predators in these new, open habitats,» explains Juan L. Cantalapiedra, researcher at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany.

Opened on December 15, 2003, the center's adjacent space and aviation hangars are packed with artifacts too big and too numerous to fit into the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum on the mall in Washington, D.C. Stepping inside the 986 - foot - long aviation hangar, my first impression is of a gigantic version of a teenage boy's room.

«So, just the idea of coming to a museum, big open spaces, dinosaurs or big things hanging from the ceiling, going to different toilets - there can be lots of things that happen in their day that are not part of their normal routine.

If big crowds aren't your thing, go out during the early hours just as museums and stores open.

While Friday afternoons for most New Yorkers means happy hour, it also marks the time when some of city's biggest and best museums throw open their doors and let visitors in for free, including otherwise pricey museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (normally $ 25!)

Manhattan has its big players — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA — and its chic downtown spots — the newly opened Whitney Museum of American Art,... Read More

I heard from my mom that there is one, big Open - Air Folk Museum in Sweden, from where everything has started, but you know, as my small world was limited to my hometown only, it was a little hard to believe

Manhattan has its big players — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA — and its chic downtown spots — the newly opened Whitney Museum of American Art, Bowery's New Museum — but what do the outer boroughs of New York City have to offer when it comes to museums?

Göreme Open Air Museum — This outdoor complex of cave churches is the area's biggest attraction.

The Big Hole continues to draw attention and has been converted into an open - air museum with a rather daring lookout point directly over the hole.

The Big Hole continues to draw attention and has been converted into an open - air museum with a rather daring looko...

Whether you are in Rome for 3 days, 3 weeks or 3 months, be prepared to step into the world's biggest open air museum.

18:54 — Shirley's big museum show: «I thought doors were going to open magically from there.»

«Big Sky Little Moon» will be a shared museum show with his longtime partner, Clare Rojas, and will open on June 24th.

Alongside those works, Serra designed a series of forged pieces including: «Two Forged Rounds for Buster Keaton», «Snake Eyes and Boxcars» and «Ali - Frazier» and «Charlie Brown» One of his biggest installation is «The Matter of Time» commissioned by the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, it incorporates a series of seven sculptures made of spot - welded sheets of steel that form 4,3 m high curling walls positioned around the existing sculpture, «Snake», that had been commissioned for the museum's opening in 1997.

Its opening exhibition, «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016,» is on par with the best museum exhibitions in ambition and quality, comprising many rare, big and fragile objects on loan from some of the major museums of the world.

Applications opened today for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017, the largest arts award in Britain and the biggest museum prize in the Museum of the Year 2017, the largest arts award in Britain and the biggest museum prize in the museum prize in the world.

Iglesias, F.Meisenberg, B.Ruais, K.Thorne, J.VanDyke / Abrons / 466 Grand / thru 12/20 Kaari Upson / Ramiken Crucible / 389 Grand / thru 12/14 Matt Connolly / Essex Flowers / 365 Grand / thru 1/4 Opening 11/21 Keumnin Lee / Shin / 322 Grand / thru 11/30 Ulf Puder; Bettina Blohm / Straus / 299 Grand / thru 12/12 Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho / 47 Canal / 291 Grand — floor 2 (new location) / thru 12/21 Bright Matter: LAb [au]; Numen / For Use; Joanie Lemercier; Nonotak; François Wunschel / Guepin / 83 Orchard / thru 1/11 Opening 11/21 Kiki Kogelnik / Subal / 131 Bowery / thru 12/19 Brad Troemel / Tomorrow / 106 Eldridge / thru 11/30 (extended) The Contract / Essex Street / 114 Eldridge / thru 1/11 Opening 11/21 Reception 11/22 Foster Mickley / Munch / 245 Broome / thru 12/21 Opening 11/21 Robin Kang; Duhirwe Rushemeza / Tabacaru / 250 Broome / thru 12/9 Michelle Lopez / Preston / 301 Broome / thru 12/21 Alexander Tovborg / Beauchene / 327 Broome / thru 12/21 Mary Ann Aitken; John Maggie; Jonathan Rajewski / Hanley / 327 Broome / thru 12/21 Guglielmo Achille Cavellini / Whitebox / 329 Broome / 11/1 thru 11/30 Yui Kugimiya / Marlborough / 331 Broome (third NYC location) / thru 12/21 Opening 11/20 Lily Ludlow / Canada / 333 Broome / thru 12/14 Ulrike Theusner; Paul Brainard / Lodge / 131 Chrystie / thru 12/14 Cristina Vergano / Woodward / 133 Eldridge / thru 12/21 Nayda Collazo - Llorens / LMAK / 139 Eldridge / thru 11/30 James Hoff / Callicoon / 49 Delancey / thru 12/21 Noam Rappaport / Fuentes / 55 Delancey / thru 12/21 XYZ collective / Brennan & Griffin / 55 Delancey / thru 12/21 Jana Winderen & Marc Fornes / Storefront for Art & Architecture / 97 Kenmare @ Centre / thru 11/21 Maya Bloch / Thierry Goldberg / 103 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Josh Faught / Cooley / 107 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Joseph Montgomery / Gitlen / 122 Norfolk / thru 12/21 My Big Fat Painting curated by Rick Briggs; Fred Gutzeit / Morris / 163 Chrystie / thru 11/23 (extended) Closing Reception 11/20 (7 - 9 PM) Mark Joshua Epstein / Morris project space / 163 Chrystie / thru 12/20 Opening 11/20 (7 - 9 PM) Addie Wagenknecht / Bitforms / 131 Allen (new location) / thru 12/7 David Mramor / James / 143b Orchard / thru 12/7 Angelo Volpe / Krause / 149 Orchard / thru 12/8 Beatrice Scaccia / Cuchifritos / 120 Essex (SE corner of market) / thru 11/30 Tommy Hartung / On Stellar Rays / 1 Rivington / thru 11/30 Valeska Soares / Eleven Rivington / 11 Rivington / thru 11/23 Bill Traylor / Cuningham / 15 Rivington (new location) / thru 12/6 Micki Pellerano / Envoy / 87 Rivington / thru 11/23 Do the Write Thing: Read Between the Lines / Berst / 95 Rivington / thru 12/20 Guglielmo Achille Cavellini / Lynch Tham / 175 Rivington / thru 12/21 Jessica Rankin / Salon 94 / 1 Freeman Alley / thru 12/21 Red, Yellow and Orange: Ford Crull; Debra Drexler; Peggy Cyphers / Van Der Plas / 156 Orchard / / thru 12/31 AS IF: Abigail Donovan; Troy Richards; Robert Straight; Peter Williams / Novella / 164 Orchard / thru 12/6 Raquel Rabinovich / Y / 165 Orchard / thru 12/23 Opening 11/21 Tai Ogawa / Matsumiya / 153 1/2 Stanton / thru 12/31 Magnolia Laurie / Frosch & Portmann / 53 Stanton / thru 11/23 Forces at Play: S.Crider; B.Gardner; M.Keller; J.Mellon; L.Rablin / Molly Krom / 53c Stanton / thru 11/30 Valeska Soares / Eleven Rivington / 195 Chrystie (second location) / thru 11/23 Sara Goldschmied; Eleonora Chiari / Lorello / 195 Chrystie — floor 6 / 11/19 thru 1/25 Reception 12/11 Kader Attia / Lehmann Maupin / 201 Chrystie / thru 12/13 George Horner thru 12/6, Henry Mandell thru 1/10 / Charles / 196 Bowery Lili Reynaud - Dewar thru 1/25; Chris Ofili thru 2/10; etc. / New Museum / 231 - 235 Bowery Takeshi Murata / Salon 94 / 243 Bowery / thru 12/21 Heinz Mack / Sperone Westwater / 257 Bowery / thru 12/13 Notes on Undoing / Garis & Hahn / 263 Bowery / thru 12/20 Opening 11/20 Charles Dunn / Rucker / 141 Attorney / thru 11/26 Serge Alain Nitegeka / Boesky East / 20 Clinton (new, third NYC location) / thru 12/21 Matthew Fischer / Junior Projects / 139 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Pierre St - Jacques / Station Independent / 164 Suffolk / thru 12/14 Aki Sasamoto / JTT / 170a Suffolk / thru 12/14 (Performances 12/12 @ 6 PM) Sara Greenberger Rafferty / Uffner / 170 Suffolk / thru 12/21 Matt Hoyt / Bureau / 178 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Stuart Shils / Harvey / 208 Forsyth / thru 12/21 Opening 11/19 Arianna Carossa / Rooster / 190 Orchard / thru 1/4 Opening 11/25 Greer Lankon / Participant / 253 E Houston / thru 12/21 Henry Flynt / Audio Visual Arts / 34 E 1st / thru 11/23 (extended) Joel Holmberg / American Contemporary / 4 E 2nd / thru 12/19 Early Man / The Hole / 312 Bowery / thru 12/28

Notable recent exhibitions include 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life, which opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on April 15th, 2018; the show was organized by the Royal Academy, London (2016) and traveled to Ca» Pesaro, Venice (2017), Guggenheim Bilbao (2017); A Bigger Picture (2012), organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, that traveled to Guggenheim Bilbao (2012), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2012 — 2013); A Bigger Exhibition, de Young Museum, San Francisco (2014); Current, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2016); Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney at The Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2017).

Christmas is just a week away, but some museums have already opened their presents: big donations from longtime supporters.

MIDTOWN & UPTOWN & HARLEM Freak Flag curated by Kim Uchiyama / Morris / 29 E 32 (new, second location) / thru 12/13 Marina Abramovic; Jose Davila / Kelly / 475 Tenth Avenue @ 36 / thru 12/6 Emily Noelle Lambert; Lael Marshall / Dieu Donne / 315 W 36 / thru 1/10 Opening 11/20 Spencer Finch thru 1/11; CyTwombly thru 1/25; Etc. / Morgan Library / 225 Madison @ 36 Margaret Lanzetta / Heskin / 443 W 37 / thru 12/13 A Wicked Problem / EFA Project Space / 323 W 39 / thru 12/20 Inseparable Borders: Elisa Lendvay; Valentina Loseva curated by Nechama Winston / The 125 / 125 E 47 / thru 11/29 Opening 11/18 (6 - 9 PM) Anna Schuleit Haber / German Consulate / 871 United Nations Plaza @ 49 / thru 1/2 Opening 12/2 (6:30 - 8:30) Big Picture Show organized by the International Print Center / 1285 6th Avenue @ 52 / thru 12/5 R.Gober thru 1/18, H.Matisse thru 2/8, Sturtevant thru 2/22; J.Dubuffet thru 4/5; Etc. / MoMA / 11 W 53 Nina Tryggvadottir / Findlay / 724 Fifth Ave. @ 57 — floor 8 / thru 12/6 Sarah McEneaney; Hannah Wilke / de Nagy / 724 Fifth Ave. @ 57 — floor 12 / thru 11/22 Andy Warhol / Hirschl & Adler / 730 Fifth Ave. @ 57 / thru 12/6 Pablo Picasso / Pace / 32 E 57 / thru 1/10 Black & White: Vince Contarino; David Rhodes; Joan Witek; Adolph Gottlieb / McCoy / 41 E 57 / thru 12/12 Will Barnet / Alexandre / 41 E 57 / thru 1/10 Opening 11/20 (5 - 7 PM) Joseph Montgomery / Blum / 20 W 57 — floor 2 / thru 12/6 Nicolas Carone / Washburn / 20 W 57 — floor 8 / thru 1/17 John Baldessari / Goodman / 24 W 57 — floor 4 / thru 11/22 Dorata Jurczak / Jancou / 24 W 57 — floor 6 / thru 12/6 Ruud van Empel / Stux + Haller / 24 W 57 — floor 6 (new location) / thru 12/20 Bernardo Torrens; Anthony Brunelli; Antonio Caroria / Bernarducci - Meisel / 37 W 57 / thru 11/26 Richard Estes; Tom Otterness / Marlborough / 40 W 57 / thru 11/25 Kiln: A.Angell; R.Kneebone; W.O» Brien; A.Shechet; J.Smith; J.Wine curated by T.Zabludowicz / Heller / 43 W 57 (new, second location) / thru 12/20 An Albers Legacy: Artists at Yale in the 1950's curated by Francis Frost / 57W57ARTS / 57 W 57 -1206 / thru 12/20 Marcel Eichner / McKee / 745 Fifth / thru 12/20 Alexander Kaletski / Boone / 745 Fifth / thru 12/20 Assenting Voices: Agitprop Art from North Korea / John Jay CUNY / 860 Eleventh Ave. @ 58 / thru 1/23 New Territories thru 4/6, Etc. / Museum of Art and Design / 2 Columbus Circle @ 59 Joel Carreiro / St. Paul / Columbus @ 60 / 9/30 thru 11/29 Leo Villareal / Gering / 14 E 63 (new location) / thru 1/10 ZERO in vibration — vibration in ZERO / Moeller / 35 E 64 / thru 1/9 Please Enter curated by Beth Rudin Dewoody / Franklin Parrasch / 53 E 64 / thru 12/20 Something Beautiful curated by Khary Simon & Nicolas Wagner / Boesky / 118 E 64 / thru 12/20 Five From Fourteen: James Case - Leal, Anna Glantz, Ali Harrington, Heidi Howard, and Alyssa Piro / Bernstein / 21 E 65 / thru 12/12 Ha Chonghyun / Blum & Poe / 19 E 66 / thru 12/20 Jasper Johns / Dickinson / 19 E 66 / thru 12/12 Miyoko Ito / Baumgold / 60 E 66 / thru 12/20 Douglas Gordon / Park Avenue Armory / 643 Park @ 66 / $ / thru 1/4 Opening 12/10 Terence Gower / Faria / 35 E 67 / thru 1/10 Opening 11/20 Gego; Gerd Leufert / Hunter / West Building, 68 & Lexington (SW corner) / thru 11/22 Freezer Burn organized by Rita Ackermann / Hauser & Wirth / 32 E 69 / thru 12/20 Ray Johnson / Feigen / 34 E 69 / thru 1/16 Ishiuchi Miyako / Roth / 160A E 70 / thru 11/21 Nam June Paik / Asia Society / 725 Park @ 70 / thru 1/4 Food for Thought curated by H.Cohen & M.Falcaro / Marymount / 221 E 71 / thru 12/4 Maurizio Cattelan curated by Adam Lindemann / S - 2 / 1334 York @ 71 / thru 11/26 Local History: Castellani; Judd; Stella curated by Linda Norden / Levy / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 1/3 Claude Rutault / Perrotin / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 1/3 Opening 11/20 Jasper Johns / Starr / 5 E 73 / thru 1/23 Richard Diebenkorn / Van Doren Waxter / 23 E 73 / thru 1/16 Art in the Making / Freedman / 25 E 73 / thru 1/31 Duane Hanson / Gagosian / Park & 75 / thru 12/3 Jan Maarten Voskuil / Geranmayeh / 956 Madision @ 76 — floor 3 / thru 12/10 Berend Strik; Henk Peeters / Tilton / 8 E 76 / thru 12/19 Robert Raushenberg / Castelli / 18 E 77 / thru 12/20 Mario Schifano / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 1/10 Carlo Mollino / Gagosian / 976 Madison @ 77th (new location) / thru 12/20 Blair Thurman; Walter De Maria / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th / thru 12/20 Letha Wilson / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 12/20 Opening 11/20 Sigmar Polke / Nahmad / 980 Madison — floor 3 / thru 1/15 Maurizio Cattelan curated by Adam Lindemann / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 1/10 Enrico David / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 1/24 Chris Martin / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 12/13 El Anatsui / Mnuchin / 45 E 78 / thru 12/13 Roy Lichtenstein / Mitchell - Innes & Nash / 1018 Madison @ 78 / thru 12/19 Wayne Thiebaud / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 11/21

Whether you overindulged on Christmas pudding or you've made fitness a new year's resolution, exercise in style with our round - up of Britain's biggest museum calorie burners — from labyrinthine buildings to open - air galleries.

With the opening of the Switch House, Tate Modern has become the biggest museum of modern art on earth.

As SFMOMA opens to the public, visitors will be able to make their own judgments about whether it is both a big museum — and a great one.

It's a big year for Carmen Herrera, an abstract geometric painter who was born in Havana in 1915, has worked in New York since the mid-20th-century, and now, at 100 years old, is being honored with a Whitney Museum survey (this coming fall) and the inaugural exhibition in Lisson Gallery's new Chelsea branch (opening during Frieze Week).

This weekend's opening of the new Parrish Art Museum is big news.

When the Whitney Museum of American Art opens its new building in Manhattan's meatpacking district on May 1, it's the big things everyone will notice first: the sweeping views west to the Hudson River; the romantic silhouettes of Manhattan's wooden water towers; the four outdoor terraces for presenting sculptures, performances and movie screenings; and the tiered profile of its steel - paneled facade, intentionally reminiscent of the Whitney's Modernist, granite - clad Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue, which had been the museum's home sinceMuseum of American Art opens its new building in Manhattan's meatpacking district on May 1, it's the big things everyone will notice first: the sweeping views west to the Hudson River; the romantic silhouettes of Manhattan's wooden water towers; the four outdoor terraces for presenting sculptures, performances and movie screenings; and the tiered profile of its steel - paneled facade, intentionally reminiscent of the Whitney's Modernist, granite - clad Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue, which had been the museum's home sincemuseum's home since 1966.

Early birds will want to make sure they are in line when the doors open at the big four — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of Art.

PARIS — Bridget Riley's retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris opens with landscape drawings from the 1950s, passes through the Op Art with which she became famous, soars into the big lusciously colored abstracts of recent years and ends with a wall painting which the curator sees as a homage to the museum's prize possession, «La Danse» by MaMuseum of the city of Paris opens with landscape drawings from the 1950s, passes through the Op Art with which she became famous, soars into the big lusciously colored abstracts of recent years and ends with a wall painting which the curator sees as a homage to the museum's prize possession, «La Danse» by Mamuseum's prize possession, «La Danse» by Matisse.

For many years, until the Hammer Museum opened in 1990, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) was the only place big enough for Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, Edward Kienholz and other successful West Coast modernists to exhibit locally; otherwise, they had to show in New York.

The Big Picture: A Transformative Gift from the Hall Family Foundation opens April 28 at The Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

This is higher than the visitor numbers at our opening exhibition in 2012, when the museum was Oslo's biggest new attraction.

We are in big challenge with our CSO an ∂ thanks for mentioning the Golden Triangle Museum District's newest and bold building The Clyfford Still Museum opening Nov. 18.

Opening: «Wendell Castle: Gathering Momentum» at Friedman Benda The classic Kansas - born artist is in his 82nd year, and it's going to be a big one: he has a retrospective at the Museum of Art and Design opening this fall, and a show of new works opening at Friedman Benda in Chelsea thiOpening: «Wendell Castle: Gathering Momentum» at Friedman Benda The classic Kansas - born artist is in his 82nd year, and it's going to be a big one: he has a retrospective at the Museum of Art and Design opening this fall, and a show of new works opening at Friedman Benda in Chelsea thiopening this fall, and a show of new works opening at Friedman Benda in Chelsea thiopening at Friedman Benda in Chelsea this week.

My biggest projects are the Whitney Museum in April, the biennial opens in March but my special performance piece will be April.

In the 1950s, his reputation began to rise, despite the decade's opening with his watercolor Big City being banned from an exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco on the grounds of obscenity.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 Opening: «Wendell Castle: Gathering Momentum» at Friedman Benda The classic Kansas - born artist is in his 82nd year, and it's going to be a big one: he has a retrospective at the Museum of Art and Design opening this fall, and a show of new works opening at Friedman Benda in Chelsea thiOpening: «Wendell Castle: Gathering Momentum» at Friedman Benda The classic Kansas - born artist is in his 82nd year, and it's going to be a big one: he has a retrospective at the Museum of Art and Design opening this fall, and a show of new works opening at Friedman Benda in Chelsea thiopening this fall, and a show of new works opening at Friedman Benda in Chelsea thiopening at Friedman Benda in Chelsea this week.

Now, her long career, from her earliest sculptures of animals to the more recent suspended sculptures — big, airy assemblages of wire and bits of mesh and porcelain — is to be the subject of a full - scale retrospective at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, opening the fifth of next month and traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in February 2004, and then on to the Museum of Modern Art in New York next summer.

Dark, moody and moist skies awaited the 1,300 opening - night revelers who ponied up big bucks for this San Francisco Museum of Modern Art fundraiser.

A trend has been mounting in the art world since the 1980s: galleries and museums are opening bigger and bigger spaces, artists are making bigger and bigger work.

On November 27th that experience gets bigger, with the opening of the museum's long - awaited $ 135 million expansion, which sits 65 yards away from the original Kahn structure and was designed by Renzo Piano.

Genger's recent solo exhibitions include Red, Yellow and Blue at Madison Square Park in New York City (2013); Big, Open, Empty at Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York City (2011); and Whole at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2008).

Last fall, when the big traveling retrospective of Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley (1954 - 2012) opened at MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art's outpost in Long Island City, N.Y., the show looked smashing.

As the new Whitney Museum opens in the Meatpacking District and rents in the surrounding area reach new heights, Chelsea's big galleries are upping...

MASS MoCA: Bigger is better (1999) Dubbed «A Cultural Factory for the 21st Century», the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary of Art (MASS MoCA) officially opened on May 30 as the largest center for contemporary visual and performing arts in the United States.