June 30th, 2010
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Ulster Museum, Belfast

• The UK’s largest museum award, the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, has been awarded to the Ulster Museum in Belfast. The original 1929 building was renovated for three years before reopening in October 2009 with a new atrium and increased gallery space. Check out The Art Newspaper for all the details. • With one of the largest collections of works by female artists in the country, the Long Beach Museum of Art is mounting an exhibition entitled A Light in the Shadow – Decades of Art by Women. Paintings, sculpture and non-traditional media from the museum’s permanent collection will celebrate female modern and contemporary artists since 1925. Read more here. 1277743393image_web• The Whitney Museum of American Art will focus on performance art and dance in its two-part exhibition called Off the Wall. Famous works (and their documentation) by 20th century artists will be shown in "Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions." Re-performances of dance pieces by acclaimed choreographer Trisha Brown make up "Part 2: Seven Works by Trisha Brown." Go to e-flux for more information. • Filmmaker David Lynch has teamed up with shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, real name Brian Warner, in Genealogies Of Pain, the new show on view at the Kunsthalle in Vienna until July 25. Manson’s 21 watercolor paintings and Lynch’s sculptural and film pieces trace themes of aggression, fear, and insanity. From ArtDaily.