A new display at the National Portrait Gallery (London, United Kingdom) celebrates the career of photographer Antony Barrington Brown. The display presents a selection from the 240 recently acquired sittings, taken between 1953 and 1958, given to the National Portrait Gallery by Barrington Brown before his death in a car crash in January 2012.
Francesca Woodman, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work since Woodman's untimely death in 1981 at the age of 22, will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum through June 13, 2012. Spanning the breadth of her production, the exhibition includes more than 120 vintage photographs, artist books, and a selection of recently discovered and rarely seen short videos, presenting a historical reconsideration of Woodman’s brief but extraordinary career.
The Royal Museums of the Fine Arts of Belgium hosts an exhibition that presents the early creative efforts of Stanley Kubrick, one of the leading filmmakers of the 20th century.
The research project on the drawings of Gustav Klimt took its first steps in 1963, starting with the comprehensive Klimt collection of the Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria), now on view until June 10, 2012.
The Kunsthaus Zürich (Switzerland) showcases the politically charged work of Mexican artists. The exhibition begins with graphic plates by José Guadalupe Posada, one of the most important artists and caricaturists in 19th-century Mexico. His motto – 'art against violence' – has lost none of its topicality and continues to guide the work of his present-day successors.