Article Archive for January 2010
FIRST MUSEUM SURVEY OF INFLUENTIAL STREET ARTIST SHEPARD FAIREY COMES TO THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER
Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand, the first solo show of renowned street artist and political provocateur Shepard Fairey, opens February 20th at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art. An extensive exploration of the artist’s 20-year career, the exhibition is mounted in two parts: the works displayed inside the CAC and external projects. The CAC’s galleries will house approximately 250 pieces ranging from his early Andre the Giant work to the ... Read More
New Deal Exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (FJJMA) Explores 1930s Art
NORMAN, OKLA. – In light of the current U.S. economy and its historic correlation to the 1930s, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art premieres a new exhibition of New Deal-era artwork this spring. Revisiting the New Deal: Government Patronage and the Fine Arts, 1933-1943 opens Friday, Feb. 5, with a special public opening reception at 7 p.m. The opening reception is preceded by a guest lecture at 6 p.m. by Eugene B. Adkins Curator Mark White. Both are free and open to museum association members and the ... Read More
The Hammer Museum Presents Rachel Whiteread Drawings in First Drawings Retrospective of the British Artist
Los Angeles – This winter the Hammer Museum presents a retrospective of drawings by Rachel Whiteread, the first large-scale museum survey of work on paper by the British artist. Organized by Allegra Pesenti, curator of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, this exhibition includes key examples of the artist’s sculpture displayed alongside her drawings. The exhibition features 155 drawings, 8 sculptures, and a vitrine filled with roughly 200 objects selected by Whiteread. Although her sculpture is ... Read More
EXHIBITION DRAWN FROM ANSEL ADAMS ARCHIVE BRINGS NEW LIGHT TO OLD FAVORITES
Phoenix Art Museum is the Exclusive Venue for Ansel Adams: Discoveries PHOENIX – Ansel Adams: Discoveries, opening January 31, 2010, at Phoenix Art Museum, offers new insights into the photographer’s greatest works by bringing the unparalleled holdings of the Center for Creative Photography’s Ansel Adams archive to light. The exhibition, featuring 120 photographs and dozens of rare archival documents and materials, will allow Museum visitors to explore the career and beloved photographs of one of ... Read More
Lincoln, Life-Size Exhibition at the Bruce Museum
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents its newest exhibition Lincoln, Life-Size from February 13, 2010, through June 6, 2010. The exhibition features photographs of Abraham Lincoln reproduced full size, hanging alongside original 19th-century images and artifacts that tell the story of Lincoln’s tumultuous presidency. The exhibition is drawn from the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection which it has on loan from the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation. Lincoln, Life-Size is organized by guest curator Peter W. ... Read More
Deaccessioned Items From the High Museum of Art in Atlanta Auctioned at Leslie Hindman
A George II red lacquered secretary consigned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta sold for an astounding $207,400 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. The secretary, decorated with a pierced carved crest and Chinoiserie figures and motifs, was donated to the High Museum in 1961. Thirteen telephone bidders vied for the lot before a British dealer bidding in the saleroom won the lot with a raise of the eyebrows. Also deaccessioned from the High Museum was an important 19th century silver and marble garniture that ... Read More
Town and Country: Urban and Rural Scenes from the Racine Art Museum Collection
Whether documenting city life or responding to the awe-inspiring qualities of nature, artists constantly revisit the subject of their surroundings. Open through April 11, 2010, “Town and Country: Urban and Rural Scenes from RAM’s Collection” features selected artworks from the Racine Art Museum’s permanent collection that provide a lively sampling of different points of view expressed by nearly 100 individuals portraying the world around them. Presenting pieces created from 1930 to the present, ... Read More
Miró/Dubuffet/Basquiat Exhibition at the Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA)
For the first time, works by Dubuffet, Miró and Basquiat are shown together, giving voice to the primal symbols that characterize their works in personalized types of graffiti that exist in a timeless, unidentifiable space. In the work of these artists, signs and color erupt in a free association of structure and rhythm; the mysterious act of painting is shown as wild and free, yet also very exacting. The artists do not share generation nor culture, but they do share a confrontational antagonism to the ... Read More
Biennial Print Fair Brings Art Galleries and Collectors to Baltimore
Baltimore Fair for Contemporary Prints & New Edition This spring, the Baltimore Museum of Art brings 14 galleries, dealers, and presses from around the U.S. for The Baltimore Fair for Contemporary Prints & New Editions. This biennial event held on Saturday, March 27 and Sunday, March 28, from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. offers works by leading contemporary artists and innovators in printmaking for sale in the BMA’s special exhibition galleries. The weekend fair also features a talk with internationally ... Read More
JACK BECKER NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
Jim Young, chairman of Joslyn Art Museum’s board of governors, announced that Jack F. Becker, Ph.D., has accepted the position as executive director of Joslyn Art Museum. Dr. Becker, 46, comes to Joslyn from Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has served as president and chief executive officer since 2005. He joined Cheekwood in 2002 as vice president/director of its art museum. Prior to that, Dr. Becker worked as curator of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, ... Read More
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