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The new exhibition Clare Rojas: We They, We They showcases the first San Francisco solo museum exhibition of the internationally acclaimed Bay Area artist who identifies and inserts herself in the folk art continuum.

This exhibition will mark a shift in Clare Rojas’ artistic focus from a preoccupation with the figure and gender politics to a broader range of formal association retaining the major proposition of her practice. Understood within contemporary art practice and a neo-folk tradition, Clare Rojas’ exhibition will focus on a large “wall quilt” configured by individual paintings on wood panels.

A large installation will be built throughout MOCFA's gallery space—the walls of the gallery covered floor to ceiling by a patchwork of painted panels, some focused on particular figurative imagery, others assemblages of color and pattern, combining to recall a myriad of reference points from high art and popular culture—from West Coast modernism, to Latino folk art, Quaker art, Native American craft, outsider art, folklore and the tradition of story-telling and illustration.

Clare Rojas: We They, We They is curated by Natasha Boas and will be on view through August 22, 2010.

The Museu Coleccao Barardo in Lisbon present a new exhibition, Pra quem mora lá, o céu é lá, (To those who live there, the sky is there), by Os Gemeos. Brazilian brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo (1974, Sao Paulo) known as OSGEMEOS, are involved in the creation of a fantastic, full world of quotidian histories in poetry form. The painting made in the streets and the creations made for works and installations in galleries and museums leaves of the same onírica inspiration that exists inside of the mind of these twin brothers, whose work now is presented for the first time in Portugal.

Pra quem mora lá, o céu é lá will be on view through September 19, 2010

When the doors of the expanded Virginia Museum of Fine Arts open on Saturday, May 1, the first work of art that visitors will see is "Art History is Not Linear (VMFA)," a Ryan McGinness painting commissioned by the museum.

The monumental work, which is in the entry concourse of the new James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing, will serve as an introduction to the expanded museum and will measure 8 by 32 feet - 16 panels altogether, layered with 200 images based on objects in the VMFA collection.

This marks the first time that McGinness has created an installation in which the imagery is site-specific and directly linked to a diverse museum collection. The project is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts Fund for American Art.

To celebrate the New York City Opera's 2009-10 season and the company's return to the newly renovated David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, City Opera and Deitch Projects will present a site-specific installation by artist E.V. Day in the theater's Promenade. A series of dynamic sculptures made from a selection of vintage City Opera costumes and costume accessories will be dramatically suspended overhead in exuberant simulated motion.

On view beginning March 18, the installation will remain in place throughout City Opera's spring seasons. On Wednesday, March 31, from 5:30 to 7:30pm, the installation will be open to the public, free of charge. The artwork may be viewed by ticket holders to all City Opera performances throughout the spring season.

Working in a medium she describes as "exploding couture," Day will lend soaring animation to garments including Cio-Cio-San's kimono, Don Giovanni's cape, Carmen's mantilla and Manon's elegant 18th-century dress (in a twin of the costume worn by Beverly Sills). Day has chosen the garments from City Opera's rich archive of retired costumes, and has transformed them into dramatic stopmotion expressions of the explosive energy and extravagance of opera. Each sculpture will be suspended by fishing tackle within its own 10-foot-high "stage" comprising a pair of horizontal steel rings, each six feet in diameter. The rings will then be hung like stars at three different heights above the Philip Johnson-designed Promenade, making them easily visible to operagoers on all tiers. A map of the installation will help viewers to identify the character and production represented by each sculpture.