Article Archive for December 2009
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Screens Classic Italian Films that Changed the World of Cinema
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, screens classic Italian films that changed the world of cinema January 7-31, 2010. The selected films resonate with the political, familial, and design themes of the “Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008″ exhibition. Italics, a ground-breaking exhibition devoted to contemporary Italian art and creativity, presents work that embraces classical roots yet breaks away from traditions. The ‘Italics Film ... Read More
Asheville Art Museum Announces the 2010 Western North Carolina Regional Scholastic Art Awards
The Asheville Art Museum, its volunteer docents and the Asheville Area Section of the American Institute of Architects are pleased to announce the annual Western North Carolina Regional Scholastic Art Awards. Regional award recipients will be honored at a ceremony on Sunday, February 7 at 2:00 p.m. in Diana Wortham Theatre and the exhibition of their artwork will be on view at the Pack Place Community Gallery from January 22 to February 14, 2010. The Asheville Art Museum, with the assistance ... Read More
Toledo Museum of Art Launches Redesigned Website
The Toledo Museum of Art has launched a redesigned and expanded website at www.toledomuseum.org The new, easier-to-use site provides immediate ways to explore TMA’s current and upcoming exhibitions, its programs and events, and detailed information about the Museum and its world-renowned collection. “More and more people are turning to the Internet as a primary source of news and information,” said Kelly Fritz Garrow, director of communications. “It’s essential for the Museum to ... Read More
Exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art Explores Identity Theft in Art World
A new exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art contains the elements of an art history whodunit—a carefully crafted forgery, a persistent art scholar and a painting thought to be lost for more than 100 years—while taking the viewer behind the scenes of museum life. The exhibition, Identity Theft: How a Cropsey Became a Gifford, is on view through March 27, 2010. Identity Theft centers around one of the Mint’s most important Hudson River School paintings, Indian Summer in the White ... Read More
Columbus Museum Exhibition Discovers Valley’s Black Population in Slavery and Freedom
In 1860, nearly 90,000 slaves, almost half the entire population of the lower Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and Alabama, called the region home. These people tended the crops that underpinned the area’s economy, built the structures many of its citizens lived, worked and worshipped in, and affected virtually every aspect of the social structure of the era. Yet because slaves did not generate written records of their own, our understanding of their lives is extremely limited. Many ... Read More
Metropolitan Museum Holiday Mondays Program
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened to the public on Monday, December 28 (the Monday between Christmas and New Year’s Day), as part of the Museum’s popular “Holiday Mondays” program. The Museum will open the doors of its main building this winter and spring on three additional major Monday holidays: January 18 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), February 15 (Presidents’ Day), and May 31 (Memorial Day). “The upcoming Met Holiday Monday provides the public with ... Read More
Maxfield Parrish at The Delaware Art Museum
The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, presents two exhibitions devoted to Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966). “Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print,” the first traveling exhibition of Parrish’s color lithographic prints (which were made from his original paintings) is on view October 31, 2009 through January 10, 2010. Included are reproductions of commissions for book illustrations, magazine covers, and advertisements. The subject of this ... Read More
Masterpieces Of American Indian Art at The Fenimore Art Museum
The Fenimore Art Museum has announced a new traveling exhibition entitled “The Thaw Collection: Masterpieces of American Indian Art.” This major exhibition is currently scheduled to travel to three cities, bringing to light rarely seen treasures from the extensive holdings of The Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Collection of American Indian Art. The collection is widely recognized as one of the most important assemblages of this type in the world. The New York Times has described it ... Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art Presents Cuban-Themed Exhibitions
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is proud to participate in “¡Sí Cuba!” a major citywide presentation of arts, music, and culture related to Cuba taking place in New Orleans January through April 2010. ¡Sí Cuba! is a collaborative venture between museums, universities, galleries, and other arts organizations in New Orleans, co-organized by NOMA, Newcomb Art Gallery, and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. NOMA’s participation in ¡Sí ... Read More
Seattle Asian Art Museum Presents Recent Acquisitions
Through November 28, 2010, the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) is featuring two, distinct exhibitions that highlight recent additions to the museum’s permanent collections of art from across Asia. “The New Old and The New New” bring together nearly 40 works acquired since 2002, showcasing paintings, calligraphy, sculpture and more from 1629 to the present. “The New Old: Recent Acquisitions of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy” The New Old features recent acquisitions ... Read More
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