Article Archive for January 2010
Selected Masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum on View at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts
In its exhibition the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts will display selected masterpieces from the uniquely wealthy collection of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. The fifty-five works in the exhibition provide an overview of French painting from the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The show runs until the middle of April and will greet visitors with prominent works of Impressionism, Symbolism from the last decade of the nineteenth century, and the first avant-garde movements bearing ... Read More
Tracey Emin, Mat Collishaw and Paula Rego: at the Foundling Museum
Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego are to show new and related works at the Foundling Museum in London throughout its eighteenth-century interiors as well as outside spaces. All of the works link to the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first home for abandoned children, and its themes of childhood and separation. The exhibition will include paintings, works on paper, bronzes and installations throughout the Museum as well as external spaces. Curated by Gill Hedley for the Foundling Museum ... Read More
Smithsonian Museums Have Gone Mobile
Nine Museums on the National Mall Have Mobile Device Services for Visitors Until recently, visitors to Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., faced an unexpected challenge: they could not use their cell phones unless they were near a window or door. The solid construction of the Smithsonian’s historic buildings made it nearly impossible for cell phone signals to penetrate the walls. The 100-year-old National Museum of Natural History, for example, has granite-faced walls that are nearly ... Read More
Terracotta Army to Conquer Canada from 2010 – 2012
The launch of the 2010-2012 Canadian national tour of The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army was announced at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). At the event, attended by media and special guests including The Honourable Michael Chan, Ontario Minister of Tourism and Culture, it was confirmed that the Government of China has named the ROM as the Canadian tour’s organizing museum, as well as its premiere venue. The national tour, marking the first time that the Terracotta Army has appeared in Canada, ... Read More
Paying a Visit to Mary Exhibition at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present Paying a Visit to Mary, an exhibition organized by Canadian curator Maxine Kopsa, a resident of the Netherlands, who is the second recipient of the Hall Curatorial Fellowship. Paying a Visit to Mary refers to a line from Tell Me, a 1979 play about language by French artist Guy de Cointet that questions how reality is perceived and interpreted. The exhibition will open on January 31 and remain on view through June 6, 2010. Like the play, the exhibition ... Read More
Melissa Stabile Hired as Collections Manager at Maryhill Museum of Art
Maryhill Museum of Art announced the appointment of Melissa Stabile to collections manager. In this post, which she will assume on February 1, 2010, Ms. Stabile will oversee the storage, care and conservation of Maryhill’s diverse collections. “Melissa’s range of experience, coupled with her specialized knowledge of ethnographic collections, makes her a great fit for Maryhill,” says Colleen Schafroth, the museum’s executive director. “We are thrilled to have her.” Ms. Stabile’s background ... Read More
Vaudeville! Exhibition at the Demuth Museum
The Demuth Museum’s annual Invitational exhibition showcases the work of contemporary artists from Lancaster and the surrounding region who have been invited to exhibit new works based on a theme inspired by the art of Charles Demuth (1883-1935). This year’s exhibition takes its theme from Charles Demuth’s intense interest in vaudeville performances and circus performers. Demuth created imaginative watercolor works inspired by the vaudeville performances he would see right here in Lancaster at the Colonial ... Read More
Kandinsky Exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Helps Set New Attendance Record
Record-breaking attendance at the museum has been recorded for 2009, the fiftieth-anniversary year of the landmark building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Over 1.3 million visitors came to the museum this past year, enjoying groundbreaking exhibitions such as The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989; Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward; The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural; and the major Kandinsky exhibition. The numbers for the year were 22 percent greater than ... Read More
The Tyler Museum of Art Showcases New Works in Collection
The Tyler Museum of Art during the first part of 2010, and you will discover a selection of the Museum’s latest acquisitions. But New Works: Highlights from the Permanent Collection does more than simply present a sampling of significant pieces recently obtained by the TMA; the exhibition tells a tale of a growing and vibrant institution that has, since 1971, cultivated the community’s interest in the visual arts and developed an extensive permanent collection that is both interesting and important. New ... Read More
Indianapolis Museum of Art to Exhibit Recently Acquired Photographs by Weegee the Famous
Weegee Holdings at IMA Are Second Only to the Artist’s Estate at New York’s ICP Indianapolis, IN, – The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced it will premiere an exhibition showcasing 48 works selected from the Museum’s recent major acquisition of 210 photographs by Arthur Fellig, the father of New York Street photography better known as Weegee the Famous. Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous, on view exclusively at the IMA from April 17, 2010 to January 16, 2011, will follow Weegee’s ... Read More
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