December 19, 2007-February 8, 2008
Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas
The exhibition documents through sixty images many of the recent transitions encountered throughout Las Vegas and the adjoining valleys. Unlike most presentations of the city since the seminal "Learning from Las Vegas", this material avoids the spectacle of the Strip. more December 6-8, 2007Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven – Young Jean Lee's Theatre Company / New York
To 32-year old New Yorker author and director Young Jean Lee – born in Korea, raised in the USA – the worst nightmare was the thought of having to write a play on the topic of identity with a flowery, Asian-like title. So she actually did just that, and some of her colleagues criticized her for it: “Some people told me straight in the eye that I would only get all the attention because I am Asian.” more August 31 - September 16, 2007Musikfest Berlin
With the Boston Symphony Orchestra and James Levine, and the San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas, two of the leading US orchestras will finally return to Berlin for guest performances. The San Francisco Symphony will present Mahler’s seventh symphony, a performance for which they recently received a Grammy. Further concerts will include Charles Ives’s most important works, and works by significant American composers such as Morton Feldmann and Elliot Carter, as well as works by European composers that were written as a result of their experience of America – Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World,” and Edgard Varèse’s seldom played electrifying orchestral work “Amériques”. more August 26 - October 28, 2007Keith Haring - Life as a Drawing
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz. more
July 21 - October 21, 2007
Exhibition "New World: Creating an American Art" - 1st Part of the three-year Exhibition Cycle "1800-1950: 150 Years of American Art"
 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. "150 Years of American Art" will examine the origins of a genuinely American school of art that was inspired by Europe and yet followed its own distinctive path reflecting the creation of a new nation in the new world. The exhibitions will bring to life the rich and interesting art legacy of the United States with masterpieces from Thomas Cole, Frederick E. Church, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassett, James Whistler, Jorge Bellows and Edward Hopper. "150 Years of American Art" is an ideal opportunity to provide new and revealing insights into American cultural history -- the key to grasping America's art and life today. more
Note: The exhibition was also on display in the Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, February 24 - May 28, 2007. June 16 - September 23, 2007Documenta 12
Kassel. This year, the documenta features the works of 16 American artists, such as Allan Sekula, Compagnie Trishia Brown, John McCracken etc. The exhibition takes place every five years in Kassel in museums and outdoor locations throughout the city, and each documenta has an entirely new staff, theme, and flavor. more
April 28 - July 29, 2007
Andy Warhol and Minimal Art
On the occasion of 20th anniversary of his death (1928–1987) the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart will show about 40 prints and paintings by the famous Pop Art artist and contemporary representatives of Minimal Art. The Staatsgalerie thereby illustrates the extremes of artistic positions in the United States during the 1960s. more March 21-25, 2007Indianer Inuit: The North American Native Film Festival 2007
Stuttgart. Supported by the German UNESCO commission and the American Indian Film Institute and Festival in San Francisco, INDIANER INUIT is the first and only festival of its kind in Europe, now being held for the second time after 2004. The festival kicks off in Stuttgart thanks to the cooperation of the municipal cinema, Linden Museum and the James-F.–Byrnes-Institute in Stuttgart. more February 4 - May 1, 2007Born of Fire. Pittsburgh and the Ruhr Region
Special exhibition at the Rheinischen Industriemuseums, Oberhausen, in cooperation with Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
"Born of Fire" is the story of a shared past and future forged from steel, seen through the eyes of artists, and represented here in American and German works of art. more February 8 - 18, 2007International Film Festival, Berlin
 The Homage of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival in 2007 will be dedicated to the esteemed filmmaker Arthur Penn, who with films such as Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Alice's Restaurant (1969) and Night Moves (1975), belongs to the most important protagonists of American auteur cinema. His films were often made outside the conventional studio framework. They cast a critical eye on American society, triggered the New Hollywood era and to a large degree were emblematic of the era. The Homage is organised by the Deutsche Kinemathek and encompasses 10 films. On the occasion of the Homage, Arthur Penn will be presented the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifework during the festival in Berlin more November 22, 2006 - March 4, 2007Dan Flavin - A Retrospective
Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne. The first retrospective of the American Dan Flavin will show over a 100 pieces of work from all the different stages of his artistic career: from the early »Icons« to the room-capturing light installations and drawings. In the context of this overview, the emphasis will be on the reconstruction of works that Dan Flavin conceived for Munich. It was here the artist held important exhibitions in 1968, 1970 and 1976 in the Galerie Heiner Friedrich - exhibitions that proved to be of great significance for Flavins further development. more September 28, 2006 - January 7, 2007I like America
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. In the 1820s a wave of enthusiasm for the American Wild West and its clichés of good and evil swept over Germany. It was fueled initially by James Fenimore Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales”, then by Karl May’s “Winnetou” novels, and finally by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West presentations. This exhibition explores for the first time the motivations behind the German enthusiasm for the American West. “I Like America” will present more than 150 paintings, films, photographs, and documentary material. more Juli 21, 2006 - January 7, 2007The Guggenheim
Part I: The Collection | Part II: Architecture for a Global Museum (August 25 - November 12, 2006)
 Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn.
In summer 2006, the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle in Bonn will have one of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions of recent years on display, on approx. 6000 qm. A selection of 250 masterpieces, ranging from classical modernism to contemporary art, from the collection of the Guggenheim Foundation in New York is presented. Today the Guggenheim Foundation is with five museums in New York, Venice, Berlin, Bilbao, and Las Vegas the first truly global institution dedicated to fine arts. more
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